Have a stage rigging loads question regarding a new high school gym project I am working on with a stage area. The roof framing over this wood framed gym will be wood trusses spanning 80' designed by a truss manufacturer. The client would like to have the ability to secure rigging to the bottom...
Do I need to make the ridge beam span the full length? Is that ridge beam not just going to have to span 8 feet to the next A-frame and be a point load at the ridge at that location? The collar tie is 10 feet down from the ridge, and the collar can be quite beefy, double 2x12 would be my guess...
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Question about a vaulted ceiling design, for a 26' x 52' small church with timber framed 8' tall walls. The roof pitch is very steep, 14/12 and I am tasked with coming up with something that works. The ridge will be at 25', very tall, and the architect wants collar ties 10' down from...
Question for everyone, I have to bolt a steel channel to an existing pile. I have 3 ft of lateral earth pressure that will be pushing on the channel, and it will be cantilevered to the pile. To be able to get it to work, I will likely need to use a through bolt, then weld a knife plate to the...
Anyone have any ideas for this problem I am trying to think of something to recommend? Basically see the attached sketch, at a residential driveway there is fill which the soil pressure has caused 12" timber piles to lean, there are a total of 8 piles, the largest span between two of the piles...
Very new engineer, just got out of school 2 months ago and now working on a project and got a RFI from a project currently in construction that I didn't work on but need to respond to. Basically I have a roof system with 14 GA 1000S162 joists spanning only 12 feet in the area of question at 16"...
