Consultant Joe is a licensed PE in a state that requires and SE to prefrom structural engineering. Consultant Joe is not a licensed SE. State is Illinois.
Can Consultant Joe preform structural engineering for an utility which is exempt from the states engineering act?
Or does the exemption...
Other than reduction in strength, are there other negative effects to having a high water to cement ratio? Such as additional shrinkage, cracking, durability, etc.
The reason I ask is because in my experience, most of the issues I see with concrete is poor consolidation. Additionally, I have...
I am looking into expanding my knowledge in the seismic area of structural engineering. To date, I have not done any seismic design/analysis (due to the location which I work). I have found a Webinar that appears to be a good intoduction for this. It covers the following topics:
SP-A: Seismic...
I was reading some design criteria for a structure and it stated that the structure for tornado design parameters:
It stated the following parameters:
Maximum Tangential Velocity of 200mph & Translational velocity of 50 mph.
Does anyone know how this relates to the standard wind design for...
Does anyone have any reference material in regards to stacked timber shoring. What I am specifically looking for is allowable height to base width ratios. And any general guidence on the subject.
Thanks
I am a licensed PE and am planning on taking the new 16hr structural exam next year. The state I live in requires an SE to practice structural engineering.
After working for 5 years at a private consulting firm designing bridges and buildings, I now work at a power generation plant. I would...
Has anyone had anything like this happen to them:
I recently took and passed the IL PE. My experience is in bridge design, including hydrolics and approach roadway work. I passed the exam in October, but according to the IDPR I may not be able to recieve a IL PE because I have structural...
I am looking at taking the Structural Exam coming up in the next year or so. I was wondering others experiences with review/prep courses. I have been looking at one by ASCE, which is aobut 22 total hours and is online. And one be Kaplan, which is about 24 hours and is online.
Has anyone had...
Does anyone know a good method to repair cracked masonary blocks. I have a situation where I have a block wall that has a almost completely vertical crack, crack goes through mortar joints and through the blocks themselves. The joints can be tuckpointed, but I am not sure the best approach to...
I have ran across the situation in an industrial location where the site engineers insist on welding to embed plates. That is, steel plates embedded into concrete. The site engineers claim that the plates were cast into the concrete for the purpose of using them as weld points at later times...
I was recently approached by a bank to do some structural inspections of the occasional building and house. This would be a moonlighting deal, which my company is okay with.
My issue is that I do not have any liability insurance to due this work.
Has anyone ever done this kind of work on the...
I was wondering if anyone has come across graduate classes that are geared towards the same subject matter as the S.E. exam.
I work in Illinois and in order to practice sturctural engineering I must take the new S.E. exam. The company I work for will pay for grad classes, however they...
After reading the "Footing Uplift" thread, I have a new question on the subject. When examining a foundation for overturning, I thought that the eccentricity (M/d) was always to be in the center 1/3rd of the footing. Is this a code provision? or a rule of thumb? When checking this, what load...
After reading through the Blacksbutg Gym Collaspe thread, I have a question regarding who is responsible for welding issues.
If the engineer calls out a weld that is not allowed by AWS, the liability is on the engineer if there is ever a structural issue, correct? Or is it on the fabricator...
I recently applied for an award for an excellence in structural engineering. Unfortunately I was not nominated as a finalist. I was fine with the notification that the structure I designed was not selected (actually, I applied for the award expecting a merit award and nothing better). With...
This problem came out of a PE study guide. The question is asking what is the amount of reinforcing steel required for the R.C. beam. If you look at the solution to the question it states “The depth of the neutral axis is ct = 0.375dt” Where did they get the 0.375 from? according to my calcs...
I am preparing to take my PE in Illinois. I was planning on taking it this coming spring, at which time I will have 3.75 years of experience. Illinois recently passed a new law stating that you can take the test at any time, however you cannot recieve you PE until you have 4 years of...
I am preparing to take the PE this coming spring. If I could get some advice from a few people that have recently taken the exam I would appreciate it. I am taking the breadth exam in the morning, and the structural in the afternoon. I have just purchased the Civil Engineering Reference...
I am the resident engineer on a job that has some 8" jointed pavement. The job specs call out for 6"x6" D8.0/D8.0 welded wire fabric to be used in the pavement. The contractor submitted an authorization to replace this with a double mat of 6"x6" D4.0/D4.0 welded wire fabric. Does this sound...
