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    AASHTO Design safety factors

    I am developing an FEA for a bearing and pedestal (column) support for a highway bridge. I know the material specifications for the bearing and steel column. If I know the yield strength of the material, does AASHTO provide a design safety factor based on yield strength for design of structural...
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    Lap-Weleded Bottom Joints

    We are replacing a section of bottom plate in a 40 foot dia. and 32 foot tall tank which has a lap joint. API 650 describes this type of lap joint in section 3.1.5.4-Lap-Welded Bottom Joints and shows a sketch of this type of lap in figure 3-3B. This is the lap joint where the shell sits on the...

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