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Does anyone have a link to where one can aquire a copy of the Whiting Crane Handbook? SlideRuleEra: I saw a link you had for a download from your site, but did not see where the Whiting file was. thanks for your help

try this link, scroll down to the "Strut and Tie model" and click on this. It is a very good discussion and at the end you can take a short multiple choice for pdh's http://www.gostructural.com/pg.asp?id=20

If any of you have been or are planning on going to the NASCC, you may have heard of the course "Rules of Thumb for Steel Design" given by Socrates Ioannides of Structural Affiliates International. Well worth the hour and a half. Plus he has a handy pocket quide that he hands out at the end.

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Thanks SlideRuleEra. yes the piles are probably going to be good for 10 to 20 tons each which would indicate that there would be more than plenty to hold up the home. I have that download and am familiar with it. Right now he is in the planning stage so we were trying to get off on the right...

I am working on engineering a house for a friend of mine and unfortunately his soil report came back suggesting that he need piles. The geotechnical report is going to give us the pile capacity and size as well as driving criteria. Now, Several questions arise. 1) do we just figure the weight...

rmv603, The section that you are refering to is talking about shims required at splices. There is no upper limit on the shims and I have seen this done before. You have a couple of options that I have seen used: 1) Weld the shim and use "bearing" bolt values for checking bolt shear...

ALEX, Right on the money. 2'-10 from nosings 3'-6 @ landings and floors This can usually be found in OSHA books if it is industrial work. This is to top of rail, of course. Buzz

The gage down from the top of the beam does not necesarily have anything to do with how much a beam weighs, but the "k" dimension which is from the top of the beam to where the radius of the web starts. These "k" dimensions have been recently increased in the last year or...

There is a book published by AISC called Hollow Structural Sections, connections manual. What I think you are talking about is punching shear. This book has an example of this particular situation as well as tables (Table 4-8)for standard shear tab connetions. The page you are looking for...