Interesting steel article from 1971 5

http://aisc.org/Content/ContentGroups/Documents/MSC_Docs/wooten.pdf

 

[JAE]

Nice. Love it.

I especially liked this quote:

[red]No one need feel guilty of using simple solutions when the computer can make them extremely complicated.

Anyone can plug a false assumption into an incorrect formula and, in a flash, arrive at a ridiculous answer, inaccurate to ten decimal places. (It has never been clear to how many places an inaccurate answer must be carried to make it accurate.)
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[Qshake]

Great article of the past that is now more important than perhaps at it's time!

Regards,
Qshake

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[Dinosaur]

This issue is my #1 soapbox issue at the office.

 

[oldrunner]

Yes, that's the way it was and still is today. Lately checked the output from a FEM program for gravity loads only. Found the output had significant forces in two horizontal directions. The building had already been built. All I wanted to find out was how heavy the building was!

Another engineer that's one of my heros: Milo Ketchum. Check him out at:

http://www.ketchum.org/milo/index.html

Many (almost all) of his thoughts are still poignant.