I'm helping with some pre-stressed concrete design (Canada) but often feel ignorant to many nuances and details of pre-stressed concrete design. I'd like to have a good reference text I can pour into to learn much more. Currently I've been referring to the CPCI design manual which has been...
I am doing some preliminary cost sizing for a building with cold-formed steel studs and concrete floor slabs. I'm using axial load strength tables for the studs, and in trying to do a check for the bearing strength of the stud on the concrete, it seems that the bearing strength heavily governs...
