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dauwerda said:So, I'm sorry if my post came across that way.
DaveAtkins said:I assumed the OP was designing a beam over column and wanted to neglect the moment in the column, but that may not be what he/she was asking at all.
KootK said:...valid, if arcane, technical objection...
271828 said:so if we want accuracy we need to move that direction.
phamENG said:And so the universities and academia have. My steel design course was focused exclusively on plastic design. I think dik has said that he learned it in university back in the 60s. But, as you said, the inertia of practice and the lack of widespread failures and structural issues from these design practices have made the switch almost impossible in practice (except for dik).
milkshakelake said:@271828 I agree with you. But being a devil's advocate, we also have better tools than we did before. FEM makes easier work of moment distribution than what past engineers did, where it was more like a specialized skill. For example, we used to always assume that a grade beam gives linear pressure distribution under a footing. With FEM, we see that it's not the case.
phamENG said:I disagree, SE2607. For the vast majority of us (probably all of us), engineering is our business. Any consideration of technical accuracy should be looked at through that lense.
WinelandV said:Position:
If your column is failing when you account for the shear tab eccentricity, you're designing your columns too close to unity.