Quoting myself as posted on the other thread,
Please correct me if I'm wrong, cause I'm facin an analoge situation here.
" For the torsion strenght I would take in account only the section properties of an equivalent RHS formed by the two W's inner half flanges and their respective...
<Design Automation is the next step in CAD, but in my experience a lot of engineers don't want to know>
If one's can provide us with failproof power tools for sure they will be wellcome....... but before the design phase you must model and after you may wish to optmize and for those easy...
IMHO,
For the torsion strenght I would take in account only the section properties of an equivalent RHS formed by the two W's inner half flanges and their respective webs.. but this aproach depends on the welding arrangement utilized to join the W's and the cover plates. When dealing with...
weron4u,
You may find usefull some papers that I have (public domain), if you wish please give me further details so Ill can upload or email (7-8 MB):
Retrofit Historic 11-Story Building Using Demand Capacity Approach -complete doc- (SEAOC CONVENTION 1999);
Historical Structural Steelwork...
May I ask you all a few questions:
Wonder a country where:
1- You just need your BS degree in CE to start signing any kind of projects, ranging from eletrical (low tension) to structural as well all the sitework too;
2- There aren't any legal requirements for any kind of checking;
3- No...
Maybe this can help a little,
Quote from:
Modern Steel Construction / June 2000
Design/Build: Good for
Owners, Good for Designers
An overview of the latest buzzword
"This method has been touted as beneficial to building owners formany reasons: controlled schedule
and budget, early...
tld23,
Thank you for the input, based on the codes my design is correct, I'm asking this for my own curiosity concerning to the load transfer and stress distribuition along the welded parts since my feeling is that due to the way this happens (deformation and plastification issues) the the...
Dear Friends,
I'm designing a quite large floor truss in wich the diagonal elements are made of pipes, for the worst load combo I do have a compressive load of 1050kN and it's connected to a gusset plate 16mm thick and the pipe is d=168.3mm t=11mm of a steel alloy with fy=250MPa (l=2300mm)...
---> Adrian,
Thanks for the info about Mirror-Mastic but I guess that I won't find this here at Brazil.
On the other hand, the idea about painting is GREAT, I've been a painter for while, so you can call me Mich (or Salvador D) furthermore I will save some bucks.
---> DiamondJim and...
Ishvaag,
Thank you for the information, this supports my teory and I'll use, if you let me of course, your reply to try to put an end at this novel between me agaist my wife and the architet.
Have a peacefull week,
Fred
Dear Folks,
I'm building a kind of pool, small one in my house's terrace and I'm using steel to make it, like a square tank made of stiffned 3.00mm steel plate, first I tought about use vinyl finishing (cast in place). But by the moment we decided to use glass tilles (small ones 30x30mm) and...
I just want to say thank you very much for the valuable and precise information provided.
As RVT said it's really more than my needs, specially with that huge amount of info that can be found at USACE.
Best Regards
Fred
