I've been knee deep in some historic building research for a project I'm working on. This old building really has the full 9 yard of obscure building systems, which means I've looked at a lot of era-appropriate catalogs to try and find a match. One thing I've noticed while trying to hunt down a...
Hello! I'm working on a renovation and have been trying to put together the history of this building. As far as I understand this building was first constructed in around 1950, with some pretty standard joists and some sort of plank deck (unit slab or something of the sort). A few years later...
Hey all! I'm gearing up to being working on a renovation that seems to include some trusses with x-webs. I haven't had a chance to go out to the site yet to get anymore information other than a few pictures from the architect. Obviously a fairly antiquated system, and I'm trying to learn a bit...
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I'm working on a higher end residential home, and the goal from the architect is to "use as much wood as we possibly can". I'm all on board with that. Now I'm running into an issue where a wood "girder" is supporting a beam that is approximately 10" above said girder. Both beams are...
Hey all! Thanks for the feedback! If I understood correctly my method may work but it seems like there was a good reason for the conservative nature of design tables at the time. Plug welding is an interesting solution if it comes down to it; I think we're planning on sending in samples of the...
Hey everyone! We've been doing some analysis on an existing structure built circa the 1950's. We've got some rivet connections we'd like to analyze. We don't really have anyone at our firm right now with any experience with rivets. I've been exploring the forums here, looked through DG15, looked...
