We are providing contract consulting services to our government client. Our engineering team consists of civil, structural and MEP engineers. I just reviewed a 65% design submittal that I received from an A/E firm that is a sub of our IDIQ contract. One of our engineers on our team provided a...
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I was asked to give my recommendations for repairing cracks in CMU walls of unreinforced load-bearing walls of a one-story building. This building is about 60 years old and is located on the east coast. [See image]. This picture shows only one room in the building...
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A mechanical engineer on our team asked me about the possibility of placing a 600 Ib RTU on the roof of a prefab metal building. I'm not sure what the reinforcement of the Z-purlins would look like, but given the structural inadequacy of the Z's, I'm hesitant to...
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I have been assigned the task of designing a single-story office building using reinforced concrete in accordance with ACI 318-14. This building is placed in seismic design category D with site class C. According to ACI and what other buildings are designed and built with, LFRS is a...
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My question is, how do you model the load on a rafter for gabled roof or any angled roof member using the load combinations 4 or 5 for Strength Design? In another word, If I want to use the aforementioned combinations for both wind and gravity, how would I model it since wind is acting...
