The question has recently been raised at my company if the way that we are running our analyses using Staad Pro V8i is compliant with the AISC 14th Chapter C requirements for stability. Just to give a little background, I work for a company that designs and builds low occupancy industrial...
Thanks for commenting. I thought this might be the case it would be really difficult to do this there are 4 36" beams framing in at the first floor so re-framing those would be really difficult.
I was thinking of plating the web from flange to flange with 1" plate. Or perhaps welding some...
This building was constructed in the 70's. The 3300 kip is the DL + LL reactions at the baseplates from some retrofits that were done in the 80's. So the extra load has been there for 30 or so years. The only reason the columns are being reinforced now is because we refused to add anything to...
I'm working on a project right now where part of our scope of work requires us to come up with a design to reinforce a W14X550 (Grade A36). The column is a bit overloaded due to some retrofits so I've been trying to come up with a couple of different options to boost the capacity. A couple of...
