Wanting to retrofit a 36' diameter vertical water tank with a cone roof.
The original tank drawings reference AWWA D-103 'Factory Coated Bolted Carbon Steel tanks for Water Storage' But this standard gives a very vague criteria for roof design...
"5.8.1 Roofs having a slope of 1 in 2.75 or...
Press guy has given me limited information about the press - 400 kips dynamic load. I'm trying to do a last check on the concrete mass, however all my references work with a velocity/hammer weight form of an equation. For example ACI31 use 75Br*(Vr/Vo)^2 (Vr=Hammer velocity, Br=hammer weight...
I have a simple pin/pin column that needs to be installed in two pieces. What would be the criteria for the splice. Obviously I don't want another pin cnx at the splice, but I'd rather not develop the full moment capacity either.
I realize that I'll need to put some nominal load laterally...
Working with a company that has (in my opinion) an odd practice where travel is concerned. Not a major issue - and nothing I really find that offensive, but I would classify it as a bit odd and wonder if I'm alone or if this is common practice. Here it is:
A company has a policy that when the...
I'm designing some foundations for equipment supports in a 1970's era pre engineered building. Typical tapered beams and columns. I'm going to have to take out a width of the slab about 10' wide x 22' long running parallel to the bent. The edge of the excavation would be about 6' off the...
Has anyone seen this or have a solution? When I plot some open polylines close themselves in the plot. Also the letter E adds a line to the right to close the E.
THanks,
Rich
Hello group . .
I recently set up this website for looking up seismic accelerations very accurately by entering addresses. This is something I worked on a long time ago, but just recently finished up with and set up a professional web site.
it's at
www.rookrook.com
It uses the latest...
