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0" It isn't usually a "weak" direction but a zero stiffness direction in my book - assuming you just have small cross bars welded to...

Screw would go through a hole in the steel angle, penetrate through the composite, and then bite into the steel stud. Tension would be...

This reveals the great danger of we engineers using software. I'm just as prone as others to simply plug and grind and get answers and...

Yes - use of a composite material like Trex - screws in combined shear and tension like a steel ledger angle screwed into a composite board.

I'm trying to use a piece of composite decking as a filler between a CFS 16 gage (54 mil) stud and a steel ledger angle. A metal stud...

Note that decking and metal roofing are two different things. The OP stated "decking" but not sure if that's what it is or not...

The beam connections to the column would have to be designed for both the vertical shear load as well as the horizontal tie load - which...

Agree with ANE91 except that I don't believe 7-16 "excluded" tornadic loads...they just hadn't been "invented" yet. Under ASCE 7-16 you...

I'm thinking you need to rotate the columns at that cantilever end because it's a two-story building and your column extends up above...

You guys are old.... :)

Agree but the need for temporary shoring highly depends on the extent, and position, of the spalling/repair on the structural members...

I'm late to the party here but the photo that XR250 just posted is exactly what I wondered about - As a stiff connector plate is...

It is simply amazing how quickly the exact cause of this collapse was determined by simply looking at aerial pictures of rubble. Less...

Doesn't look like the house vertical loads are taken anywhere to an adequate footing. The retaining wall (6" thick with rebar in the...

All 2x6's have some bow to them so your calculations might show they work in compression as "straight" members but if they have a bow -...