I am in the final stages of negotiating a scope of work with an architect, and the subject of "Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design" (LEED) certification for the project came up. The architect wants me to add this to my scope of work for the structural engineering. Does anyone have...
I am under the impression that the Pre-Engineered Metal Building (PEMB) manufacturers typically provide unfactored loads, and it is the foundation designer's responsibility to apply the appropriate load factors and combinations to design the foundation system.
One of my supervisors recently...
I am looking for information on seismic analysis of plastic water storage tanks.
I have only been able to find information on steel and concrete tanks. I looked into using the steel tank analysis as a starting point, but it seems that the elastic modulus, failure strain, etc are bundled...
I am trying to track down reference material on seismic analysis of plastic water storage tanks. I found lots of information on steel and concrete tanks, but none for plastic tanks. Any help would be appreciated.
