Mike, I stand corrected on this being a hard limit. I agree with your interpretation.
In the following article, Packer had a chance to say it's a limit, but he didn't. He said "This limited information tends to discourage connections with Lw < H or D." It's not clear if "this limited...
Assuming Fu = 65 ksi and a 7/16 in. slot width. With 6 in. long welds, I'm getting a tensile rupture design strength of 176 kips. That's a pretty good margin, with Ru/phiRn = 0.568.
I'd still recommend not going with a length < 10 in. due to the problems described below. (If the tensile load...
That's not how this is typically done in AISC. If the connected part has a significant tension, it's checked for tensile rupture. That requires the effective area, Ae, to be determined, which requires the shear lag factor, U, for a case like this.
If the connection had 140k compression and 10...
I switched to sync.com also. I'm pretty happy with it.
I'm the only person here, so I am the IT/cybersecurity department for my operation. It bugged me that DropBox (same with Google and MS) are not end-to-end encrypted and zero-knowledge -- like sync.com is.
I'm not exactly going drug deals...
That was my first thought.
If the potentially notched beam is strong enough, I might go for it. Deflection might still be ok or close to ok with only a door sized segment with reduced EI.
Those 2x6 posts will look ridiculous, like an accident. And that's if they're perfectly straight, not with some sweep like others have mentioned above.
My concern is for the long term state of technical knowledge in the profession. For decades, firms have employed and developed a lot of new guys. That's a big part of how knowledge is spread down the line. There's probably a critical amount of new blood that's required to keep the profession...
