What happen is I attended a meeting where the City was redlining an engineer calculations over an interpretation of the ACI. The two city PE's was asking the Building Official (a non PE) to back them up. I pointed out the Arizona laws (ARS 9-802) required all referenced codes to be adopted by...
This statement has been made in the Structural Engineering forum that "Well, building departments here in California accept the Simpson bracket, no questions. And I believe in applying some common sense to code requirements."
I have always understood that it is the EOR responsibility to meet...
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From the Wood Handbook - Wood as an Engineering Material Page 5-39 (a free download from http://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/products/publications)
"Unloading a member results in immediate and complete recovery of the original elastic deformation and after time, a recovery of...
