How does physical weld prep look like for this gouge/backing weld with flush, especially through the weld access at the column web?
Which weld may be more economical/better performance between the two...
Does anyone find it odd that an engineer-of-record submitted a detail to owner and turns around and gets the same job by the fabricator to do the shop detail? Is there a conflict here?
I'm trying to find out general location and shapes of cracks in the foundation due to freeze/thaw, corrosion or even carbonation.
The cracks that I'm seeing is a shallow footing with cracking all around at around 3~4" above grade. It seems like cracks/separation is happening at concrete covers...
I'm new to Ansys, and wanted to use its meshing capabilities to generate proper mesh, then export in stl, iges or other formats so other software can read the mesh info. I typically use a FE software called SAP2000, but meshing is horrible on this. The elements I'd like to generate mesh are...
AISC Design Guide 1 lists recommended hole sizes of the base plate with respect to anchor rod sizes. These are much larger than AISC 360.
My questions is if the hole sizes of the base plate is that much larger than anchor rods to accommodate tolerances and erection, should the base plate be...
Random question, but if a single span T-beam is casted in place, wouldn't this likely be detailed as fixed? Unlike precast girders, isn't it typical practice to develope top steel for cast in place beams or is it not always the case?Thank you for input.
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Doing a 24-ft tall cantilever retaining wall with limited heel length (<5-ft due to prop. line). So this requires huge toe length (over 10-ft) and deep key at the bottom of the footing for sliding (4-ft). Now, this just seems a bit excessive and feel like I need to start looking at...
Just curious... Do local state Dept of Transportation store as-built plans of bridges? For buildings, it'd be stored by county assessor (never had luck finding one though).
I've been looking at different schemes to do a moment connection between a WF column to HSS rect/square beam (both sides of column). A bit of odd case here. It will be treated as a OMF (not a pre-qual connection). I'm trying to solicit some ideas as all I can come up with is using a welded plate...
Dealing w/ high water table with moderate seismicity here..
Geotech recommended using a raft on pile to bedrock at 40-ft below grade (some at 80-ft)
1. When does it trigger for geotech to recommend using piles over a mat foundation? If a mat settles one or two inches over a large area relative...
Some advise needed here....
A braced-frame consists of tension-only element. Now, the analysis was done with Response spectrum method. Since the response spectrum method is linear analysis and the brace was modelled with beam-element having zero compression limit (requires non-linear analysis)...
When aggregate is tested per ASTM C33 on alkalinity, what additional (or more valuable) information on alkalinity when petrographic examination (ASTM C295) is performed? Or are these two complete set of testing requirement?
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There is an existing retaining wall (short and no surcharge). Upper 6 inch of the stem wall is damaged and planning on removing that and re-concrete.
Question: Is it feasible to remove / chip away the upper portion of the stem wall while leaving the vertical rebars in place or remove and...
I accidentally posted this in wrong thread, but here we go.
I have a small two-story addition (~20 x 20). I'm putting Hardy Frame panels at corners of one side of the building, and putting cantilever on the other corners as shown in the doodling sketch. Is this an efficient approach? Reason for...
