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I used to do a lot of fall protection system design. Typically with a beam and trolley anchorage system, we would use a facter of safety of 2 on the maximum arresting force of the self-retracting or shock-absorbing lanyard and add a 300# vertical point load representing another worker hanging...

I feel that using Occ Cat IV is the only way that one can interpret the code as it is written. I too have recently been in some extensive discussions about this with the project managers in my office. I have been told also that a variance may be granted for a particular facility if the...

I would suggest to continue to use STAAD and design the connections by hand. Rather than looking at every connection individually, and I am assuming that these are beam-to-beam and beam-to-column shear connections at least for the most part, develop standard connection details either for the...

Folks, It has been some time since I have dealt with light-gauge trusses, esp. connections. A truss manufacturer suggested to me to embed a steel plate in the bond beam at the top of my CMU walls and to have the light-gauge trusses welded to the plate. Has anyone found any issues with this...