I deal with a lot of historic structures and part of trying to reproduce the design without existing drawings is figuring out whether live load reduction was used.
A quick search didn't yield any meaningful results, and the ASCE 7 commentary mentions influence area being introduced in 1982...
Hi all,
I'm working on a job where I'm reinforcing an existing WF shape with a channel on 1 side, centered on the centroid, with plug welds at 16" o.c. also centered on the centroid. The channel does not extend to the supports on either side, but rather stops short. The PM on this job is...
