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What’s Wrong With A Soil Bearing Pressure In Tension?
A young lady structural designer that I was working with was once perplexed with this…
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Defining Nonlinear Load Cases In Safe To Check Uplift In Foundation
Before we get to define nonlinear load cases in SAFE, for the sake of those…
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Did You Know That… Srss Orthogonal Direction Combination Can Be Waived?
If you’re having trouble making the design or drift work because of the SRSS seismic…
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How To Check Accidental Torsion In Etabs Using Static Seismic Loads
I hope you would bear with this rather lengthy post. I have received an email…
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Tips In Checking Service Crackwidths Using Bs 8110-2:1985
When acted upon by service loads, a structural element especially those that are predominantly resisting…
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Rotating Spectral Axes
(Before anything else, I would like to acknowledge our design manager Dale who unselfishly shared…
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Setting Correct Expectations On Lfrs Involving Transfers
Gravity dictates that what’s up must go down. The same can be said of lateral…
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Did You Know That… Dynamic Vs Static Base Shear Balancing Is Different In Asce From Ubc97?
If you’ve read my previous post regarding balancing seismic and dynamic base shear that was seismic base…
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Did You Know That… You Can Go Lower Than The Minimum Required Flexural Reinforcement?
This applies if the reinforcement provided is not driven by crackwidth limits and thermal requirements.…
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Did You Know That… Strength Reduction Factor Adjusts Depending On The Strain Of The Extreme Tensile Steel?
How old am I? I’ll give you an idea: we had been the last batch…