Good morning, has anyone ever had to pipe jack under a circumstance where the pipe jacking pits are not located along the same axis? Do you see any concerns or any difficulties on performing pipe jacking under a scenario like this one where the pipe jacking will at a small angle? Your feedback...
Happy new year and I hope you are all doing well. I have a question am I am hoping that from either experience or literature someone could provide me feedback about design cost as a function of construction cost.
I have a project on which I have a consultant responsible for 4 task: feasibility...
@ TehMightyEngineer: The city does not allow the slab to surcharge the soil due to existing soil conditions. I have to transfer the slab load to deep footings. Per@tolchijb the 3k load is based on using a jack. I understand the slab needs to be designed using a worst case condition (location...
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I would like to obtain assistance to determine the correct load to use on a one-way slab design in order to compute the live load moment for a project in California.
- ASCE 7-10 requires that floors in garages used for the storage of motor vehicles shall be...
Hi Eng-Tips members, hope you are doing well. I am writing to obtain information regarding the list of requirements, training, and certifications that a Pipe Jacking Excavation Machine Operator needs to have in order to work underground and operate a machine.
Information would greatly be...
Good afternoon, I am designing a raised garage for a single family home. The framing will be light weight concrete over plywood over wood floor joist. The floor joist will be supported at one end by the footing and at one end by a girder. I was wondering if anyone had any standard details...
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I have to determine the minimum seismic separation between two buildings. One building is a two story for which i am providing hardy frames HFX as the lateral system. The other building is and adjacent existing building.
I have never done a seismic separation calculation and...
thank you all for your information. The roof is a retrofit. The roof used to have ceiling joist, reason for the double plate at that location; however a contractor made the structure vaulted at different locations and I am trying to make it comply.
Good morning, I am writing to request assistance on how to deal with top plate discontinuity along a grid line due to windows placed at the location of the top plates. Suggestions on how to deal with the discontinuity. I was thinking of placing 4x blocking below the window and below the top...
