My firm recently opened a new branch in the DFW area. We currently do residential work in multiple other Western US states, but are now trying to get into the residential work in TX. We have spoken to a couple of developers, and they have mentioned that their Engineers provide Energy Inspections...
Thanks everyone. I was mostly wondering if there was some sort of way that you could calculate the screw strength when you did know the material it was made from. It sounds like there really isn't a good way to do so. I will have to tell them that they are going to have to stick with a...
They do have a minimum strength. The manufacturer did tell me that they are made to SS304 specs with a minimum yield strength of 30 ksi, and a minimum tensile strength of 70 ksi.
I frequently work on curtain wall designs for one of my clients, and they recently came back on a project that their client wants to use self-tapping stainless steel screws. Typically they use TEK screws, and I follow the ICC reports for the limit states of the screws. I figured that the limit...
