I am trying to weld to an existing steel anchor bolt with the designation A36 mod 50. I have not been able to find any spec on this material, except the below excerpt from a DOT spec. Does anyone have any information on this material, or know of any weldability concerns/issues?
A36M50, a...
I am designing a retrofit in a power plant and I wish to add a single point load to an existing beam. It is a simple span or at least being solved as such so it should be fairly straight forward. However I am having some doubts about the shear and bending allowable not being additive. The...
Does anyone know why, the tabulated values for the shear strength and to a lesser extent the tensile strength of bolts has changed so much. I have been comparing the 9th, 13th and 14th addition of the AISC steel manual and for example, A307 bolt available shear strength(kips), single shear, 9th...
I am relatively new to the structural design industry, however my company is looking to purchase a design program to aide and expedite the process. All the work done now is completely by hand with drawings created in Autocad. The difficulty of the calculations vary, and it is almost entirely...
