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I too always use the U value when calculating the tensile rupture strength and understand it's purpose was to take into account eccentricities at connections (and I thought at connections only). My thought was that there might be some yeilding near the connections due to combined bending and...

I am an EIT and I am designing some X-bracing to stabilize a relatively small platform. I was using single angles back to back with a spacer plate to match the gusset plate thickness and using them as tension only. Sounds easy enough... I was looking closer at the gusset plate to angle...

Thanks for the feedback everyone. However, I think I need to be more specific. We are not worried about costs as much as we are features. The Softdesk 8 addon to AutoCAD we currently use has so many great features. When generating foundation plans, all we need to do is select "12" concrete...

Greetings, I am a young engineer at a well established structural engineering firm. Our firm uses AutoCAD 14 with the Softdesk 8 add-on. Softdesk 8 has great features for drawing framing and foundation plans and for drawing details. Softdesk 8 fits our needs perfectly. However, all of our...