thank you for all the comments, nice to get a different perspective on things.. These are all separate windows installed and are not put together as a window assembly from the manufacturer.
>1. no header, (truss loads on the window frames)
hard to tell in this picture, however, there is flush...
Came upon this and was looking for some different opinions. This is a 10ft high, by 8ft wide window array. To me, it appears that the dead load from the top 2 rows of windows is being dumped onto the bottom row of windows. The only thing holding the window sill plate into the wood column for...
Questioning the amount of steel required for a column and wall footing and difficulty interpreting ACI code 10.5. I had a professor that designed flexural footing steel for 3 things:
a) Min steel based on ?
As - ?bd
b) Min steel required for Flexure (ACI 318-02 - 10.5)
As=200/Fy*bd
c)...
The calculation to get to 42000 was the following
Q=AU*delta T
AU=412
Delta T for my region was 90deg f
Q=412*90
Q=~37,000 btu/hr
i then added 15% Factor of Safty and which came out to be ~42000 btu/hr
i had not added the air infiltration in. There will be heat loss due to the ventilation...
im not an expert in heat loss. I am trying to work with an older plumbing outfit to properly size a boiler. The house was a modular and the heat loss was calculated for us based u factors of the windows/doors/walls etc. the total UA for the house is 412. I took one course in heat transfer a...
