We are designing a building in a tornado region of the country with a storm shelter as part of the building. The main building is a multi-unit residential facility. The storm shelter is attached to the host building. I have a couple questions I hope someone can help me out with. We are using...
I am working on an existing building with wide flange steel beam joists at the roof (simple span configuration). They are adding a significant amount of load to the roof. To increase the capacity of the beams, I am adding a steel plate (flat) to the bottom of the beams. Using Enercalc to find...
