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Hey all, I have a perplexing problem. I am administering the construction of a structure which has numerous underwater cofferdams for footings. Each cofferdam is driven to a depth of about 65ft on two sides but then as a temporary cofferdam driven for the "continuous sides" (the cofferdams...

The questions sounds funny but as a structural engineer interested in renewable energy, I understand that one of the challenges of wind turbine construction is the resolution of large bending moments in a cantilever frame and foundation. Maybe I'm thinking too simplistically but what if you...

In my opinion, if you want to model the eccentricity of the beam on the column, as other people have said you can use a zero-weight member that's infinitely stiff, length equal to the centroidal eccentricity between the columns in the beam line. If you're wondering if there will be localized...

This is a bit of a fun one: What's the largest force coefficient that you can create with your national code? I'm using ASCE 10 for reference. We'll say you have a short building perched on top of a 2d ridge with a sawtooth roof and is fully enclosed. (GCp = 4.1 near corners, GCpi = 0.18) The...