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dik: that's what I did. Sure hard to keep clients happy and coming back when they pull things like this and expect the engineer to fix it.

Thanks for the responses, fellow engineers. Since posting the building department has allowed our shop drawing review letter to suffice. Not to play the usual card but this is what happens when the architect/builder are the middle men and engineer is left out of the loop. I was in agreement...

Just seeing if anyone out there has an opinion on this matter. This is in reference to residential construction in Colorado. The contractor/owner on this job decided to have pre-fabricated exterior wall panels designed/constructed in Detroit and delivered to Colorado for installation. We...

Wannabe: Equation 8-11 in TMS 402. Combined axial compression and flexure. Flexural tension exists in all unreinforced masonry and is directly related to the compressive stresses in the block. More commonly this block would be used as an interior wall and even then the flexural tension calc will...

hokie: I'm in agreement with you, but these are the cards I've been dealt on this one.

I have been reading threads for the better part of a year and is time I present my first question. I'm designing reinforcement options for an unreinforced 4" masonry block wall. Using the allowable flexural tension equation for hollow block, I see that adding another floor, thus higher dead...