I want to quickly select area or shell elements that are inside the enclosed area of a frame.
To explain better: see image below. There's a frame (blue), a metal headwall (orange/yellow), and a skewed (corrugated) pipe arch (red).
I want to "cut" a hole for the pipe opening in the mesh of the...
SUMMARY: What I am imagining is- instead of a bearing wall just sitting on joists which then sit on another bearing wall below- perhaps there a style of construction where a wall sits on top of joists, and those joists then sit on top of a beam that supports the weight of that wall plus the...
Pretty simply question, but I have looked everywhere can can't find the answer:
In SAP, how do I turn on/view the blue nodes in my view window?
I know it's possible because they have been turned on in another file (accidentally) but I have no idea how I did it. I did not draw these nodes, they...
I am running into a problem checking the LTB on a W column. The column supports a carport with "hurricane wind" in Houston; it is being rotated in one direction by a "tilt beam" at the top. I have attached an illustration.
Basically the W column the designer wants to use seems to be failing in...
What design standards exist for the design of ballast against uplift forces, and what factor of safety against uplift do these design standards promulgate? I am familiar with a typical FS of roughly 1.5 against sliding forces due to active soil pressure for the design of many types of structures...
We have a client for whom we provide stamping of drawings for ballasted solar panel mounting systems. Checking the structural capacity of the actual flat rooftop is by others, usually (strictly speaking, we're not a structural firm, though as a geotech oriented outfit we do a lot of structural...
