My random thought of the morning...Artificial Intelligence (AI).
If it can't be called so already, is looking like it's going to be a major player in the future of computing across numerous industries.
And I suspect that a large part of the technical aspect of that is going to be created by...
78-ft-ish single span, steel girder bridge. 3 design lanes. Sidewalk on (1) fascia. Over (2) railroad tracks.
Locally-owned, municipal bridge with some DOT oversight.
Local "urban" area with low traffic volume.
NBIS report (2021):
Annual Avg Daily Traffic, AADT: ~8,300, 5% trucks
Future AADT...
I figure it's been another decade, so I thought it might make sense to open this discussion up again...
https://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=309159
In 2024, what design/analysis software do you currently use for checking concrete or steel members against AASHTO code requirements?
After...
Can anyone explain why I am getting these errors when trying to define member properties using an external user table (*.UPT)? And how to resolve it?
**ERROR- CHECK NUMBER OF PARAMETERS ENTERED OR SYNTAX IN UTABLE.
**ERROR- IN READING MEMBER PROPERTIES. CHECK DATA FORMAT CAREFULLY.
I am...
random thought...anybody aware of any management programs or services that help keep track of your (multi-office company's) analysis software licenses?
RISA, CSIbridge, STAAD, LPile, SPW911, etc...
How many seats you have for a particular program? How many license seats are in use? When was...
I'm trying to generate a moving load on a single beam, but am getting a "Cannot Create Load Generation Command" error.
A vehicle is already defined. And the analysis can be performed without the load generation.
The software doesn't provide any other explanation for the error
Can anyone point...
I'm waiting to hear back from RISA support, but until then...
SAY I have two moving loads in a RISA model (version 20). And I want to compare the member forces for SAY Load Step 11 of each moving load, which may not be the min/max...
Is there a way to get those results from RISA?
Is there a...
I just got a small side-job thrown on my desk. It's for the design & detailing of 6 or 8 slabs on grade in a contractor's equipment facility.
It's in New England (lots of salt in the winter). The slabs are completely outdoor and exposed to weather. They'll mainly be used for truck parking and...
Random question just popped in my head...doe anyone know of an OCR (optical character recognition) program or website that has good results with old (sometimes hand drawn) construction plans?
Thanks!
I am not too familiar with Excel add-ins, but I have a simple XLAM add-in that has a few different User Defined Functions (UDFs).
I've shared this XLAM with a few people. And, when they open up a workbook where I inserted a UDF, even when they have the add-in installed and activated, Excel is...
I'm working on the demolition plan for a concrete ramp at a parking garage.
We have the plans for the original building (no ramp) that was constructed around 1940. We have the rehab/modification plans (still no ramp) that are dated around 1980.
Existing plans for the ramp are NOT available...
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This add-in (CG-testing.DVB, as of December 2019) for AutoCAD (tested version 2018) is used to locate the Center of Gravity of a 3D model, composed of a single or mixture of material elements.
...just wanted to add a descriptive file, while I'm thinking of it.
DVB file and...
I'm looking for some old hardware information for a building that was constructed in the late 1920's.
I found a PDF copy of Machinery's Handbook, 5th edition (1915)...
A couple of weeks ago, I was inside a portion of a building constructed around 1927.
We were taking a core on an existing stairwell slab, which the GPR guy said was about 10" deep. The core cracked at about 2" down, at a material interface. And then cracked again at about another 2" down.
We...
I know a little VBA for Microsoft Excel and Word.
And I know even less about LISP.
I recently learned that there is a VBA IDE in AutoCAD (I'm running 2018). And a few weeks ago, I had an idea to fudge together a macro that would calculate the weights and overall center of gravity for a group...
I got sucked into an inspection / investigation of an old building that will be renovated.
The original building was constructed around 1870 and there were various renovations and additions around 1900, 1920, and 1970.
The architect is requesting "material of applied fire protection" on the...
I've run into this before, so I should know it, but I'm drawing a blank...
For a 1940's retaining wall drawing, some of the bars are called out as 3/4" diameter (phi), for example.
And some of the bars are called out as 1/2" "square".
In 1940, were they still using actual square bars? If so...
In previous jobs, where I was using AutoCAD regularly, I got to like "Al's Steel Mill" lisp plugin for drawing steel sections. I got away from AutoCAD for a few years, but am getting back into it. So on my new computer, I loaded a copy of the lisp and supporting files. It worked fine for about a...
I've run into various situations where it would be useful to just simply strip the units off of a variable, so you are only left with the scalar value.
...or even just using a function to check the units of a variable that is already defined.
I've never been able to find anything, but is there...
On my old computer (1-2 years old), I had been running an XLAM add-in (some version of Office 365 on Windows 10). And it was working fine.
This week, I got a new computer running Excel version 1906 (Office 365) on Windows 10. And when I try to load the XLAM add-in, I get a messaged stating...
