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Hello All, I often get requests from clients to connect their floating slab garage to their house to expand their living space. In the past I generally advised against this as mixing a floating slab foundation and a full depth foundation would result in differential movement between the two due...

Hello all, I am a structural engineer and I have been asked by a local environmental group to design an erosion control structure as part of one of their projects. I would love to get involved with this project! Does anyone have any good resources for the design of erosion control structures I...

That was my original idea. But to accomplish that you would just have the beam resting on the parapet. I feel like at a minimum it should be bolted. Do you have any experience with having a beam bearing on a wall with no connection? -Andrew www.INengineering.ca

There may be a beam running below the roof between the column and brick wall that I am going to tie into. If there isn't a beam then I will put one in. -Andrew www.INengineering.ca

Here was my original idea: The design is for a steel platform to go on a roof a building and tie into the existing steel columns. I wanted to decrease the load on the existing footings for the column so my plan was to distribute the load between the column line and the brick wall. The brick...

I have a steel beam that I want to transfer gravity loads to an existing clay brick parapet and wall. I plan on preventing the transfer of shear by using slotted connections. How can I prevent the uplift from being transferred to the brick if I am connecting my anchors from the top. The brick...

Thanks for the input everyone - next time I will definitely spec some u-bars for construct-ability or use larger lap splices. -Andrew www.INengineering.ca

The benefits being is it just looks pretty? On the shop drawing it looked fine :p -Andrew www.INengineering.ca

For bridge rehabilitation Ontario Provincial Standard Specs are great to making sure everything is done properly. I did some work on the construct admin side and they were life savers. Canadian Highway Bridge Design Code is the governing book and you should have a good understanding of that...

I am curious about what some of you might think about this mat foundation I designed. The foundation holds a large steel tower, anchorage was done by others and governed the thickness of the slab for the required embeddment. The design called for 25M@300 B&T E-W, the lap splices at the end...

I am modelling a wood truss in SAP2000, these are the material properties I used for wood: Local Axis 1: Longtiudinal Local Axis 2: Radial Local Axis 3: Tangential Define > Materials Check 'Show Advanced Properties' >Add New Material...>Material Type 'Other'>Material Name "SPF No.1/2"...