There was a previous post with much speculation on the structural cause of the sign falling off its column. Does anyone know the final answer? Were the bolts too small? Holes too big? Holes didn't line up in the two plates? Too thin washers...
How do you connect the exterior wall on a 14'x50' rear porch with walls on 3 sides in the middle of a 110' house to the roof diaphragm? Since the porch beam is the roof diaphragm chord the porch shearwall is an interior shearwall even though it is exterior wall. The builder plans to stucco the...
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How would you attach top chord bearing wood floor trusses to 2 ply 2x wood ledger bolted to CMU 2 story wall in high wind? How would you attach 3/4" osb floor deck to the ledger? Blocking between trusses? Or maybe just lag screw the top chord to ledger, nail floor OSB to...
Am I understanding this right? 200mph Saffir/Simpson = 220mph ASCE7-10 (extrapolating C26.5-2 since all speeds over land are 1.1x Saffir) = 248mph ASCE7-10 (using the Durst Curve 60sec water = 1.25; 3 sec Exp C = 1.55).
Hurricane Patricia became the most powerful tropical cyclone ever measured...
I am looking for advice making connection to HSS square tube with torsion load, wall thickness of the HSS tube, and bracing or stiffening requirements.
My customer has an existing two column pylon sign and wants to use the existing foundation and 18" of existing 10"x6" HSS columns spaced...
