I’m looking for advice on how the insurance company will react and what to expect when it comes time to renew. The actual damage was the deformation of temporary structure. Maybe 20k in steel that is somewhat disposable. I’m worried about being dropped even though the company has been doing this...
We designed a shoring job a few years ago for a client. A claim was made on our insurance. I thought that this claim had gone away as I had not heard of it. We issued plans and a sealed submittal. Months later when the contractor was doing the work they disobeyed the plans by driving the piles...
I’m doing a bridge jacking and the assembly has a top and bottom jack beam. My question is that is there any way to model a support with a reaction for -Y loads only. In other words, bearing reaction only so that it doesn’t restrict uplift? I am analyzing another engineers design and their...
