A young lady structural designer that I was working with was once perplexed with this…

Before we get to define nonlinear load cases in SAFE, for the sake of those…

If you’re having trouble making the design or drift work because of the SRSS seismic…

I hope you would bear with this rather lengthy post. I have received an email…

When acted upon by service loads, a structural element especially those that are predominantly resisting…

(Before anything else, I would like to acknowledge our design manager Dale who unselfishly shared…

Gravity dictates that what’s up must go down. The same can be said of lateral…

If you’ve read my previous post regarding balancing seismic and dynamic base shear that was seismic base…

This applies if the reinforcement provided is not driven by crackwidth limits and thermal requirements.…

How old am I? I’ll give you an idea: we had been the last batch…