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For my EOR estimates, I just use RISA etc and limit myself to #2 SPF for the chords. The #2 SPF tends to keep the designs from being...

You know me.... down with OOP. Out Of Plane. My apologies for the undefined acronym usage. I'm getting lazy in my dotage.

No, I'm not sure that I want it known that I was there. I just urinated on the side of the chimney to ward of other structural...

KootK - did you consider adding a plaque somewhere inside that attic? "KootK was here" :p

The eccentricity associated with supported load delivery usually isn't much. As such, one can often make the argument that the...

Wood members in torsion are terrible things, truly. Get any mid-section longitudinal checking or cracking and your torsional stiffness...

I have a dense dog too, but he is still lovable. Ask him to bring me my slippers and he brings me 2 banana peels.😊

I reviewed an aged hip recently as luck would have it. 16' setback with the short ceiling joists turned about 6' in. Two of the ridge...

I feel that you are considering things in terms of "what can I prove with real engineering". Instead, consider it in terms of "how does...

That's my feeling as well. The in-plane flexure will be down to a localized compression block at one end of the wall and localized...

Yup. In some very old buildings, I've seen complete sets of tension ties across the entire building in both directions. The one set...

That. This probably deserves a sketch (and let me know if it does) but I'm short on time so let's try prose first. 1) Often you have...

Mrs. KootK, who is also a structural engineer, has this home improvement project on the go at this very moment. It's the addition of a...

https://www.structuremag.org/article/know-your-hss-welds/ See if this helps