I am designing a project to be constructed in China and I am looking for an electronic file that contains Chinese structural shapes (i.e. section properties) for use with my analysis software. I'm trying to avoid mass data entry. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
can anyone help me out with how to design round steel silos? At the very least I could use some reference manual names also if anyone is aware of "hidden problems" things that need designed which aren't immediately obvious, that would be awesome.
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Jeremiah
Anybody heard what the scoop is on the Paris airport collapse. I just read a quick blurb in the latest Engineering News Record saying it went down 1 year after finish construction.
Jeremiah
OK guys here is a real test. When analyzing a pulley sideplate it occurred to me that the behavior of it was analogous to a cantilever deep beam. That being so I pulled out the handy dandy roark's and found that there is a considerable stess increase (on the order of 6-10 times) depending on the...
I am designing a steel stack for a client and SMACNA recommends an annular damping pad between the base plate and the footing. They claim that this will damp out any vibrations due to vortex shedding etc. I'm not sure I buy this idea. In the past I've used strakes, large sections, multiple brace...
Does anyone have any idea where I could find a translation of the Chinese building code? I have a small industrial component to design in Bohai and need to make sure that the seismic and wind loads I use are in line with their code.
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This may be an obscure question but any help would be wonderful. I am reviewing some calc's from another engineer and he has used a formula for "torsional section property: hollow rectangle" try as I might I can not locate any reference which includes the formula it is...
