Mike, I stand corrected on this being a hard limit. I agree with your interpretation.
In the following article, Packer had a chance to say it's a limit, but he didn't. He said "This limited information tends to discourage connections with Lw < H or D." It's not clear if "this limited...
Assuming Fu = 65 ksi and a 7/16 in. slot width. With 6 in. long welds, I'm getting a tensile rupture design strength of 176 kips. That's a pretty good margin, with Ru/phiRn = 0.568.
I'd still recommend not going with a length < 10 in. due to the problems described below. (If the tensile load...
That's not how this is typically done in AISC. If the connected part has a significant tension, it's checked for tensile rupture. That requires the effective area, Ae, to be determined, which requires the shear lag factor, U, for a case like this.
If the connection had 140k compression and 10...
I switched to sync.com also. I'm pretty happy with it.
I'm the only person here, so I am the IT/cybersecurity department for my operation. It bugged me that DropBox (same with Google and MS) are not end-to-end encrypted and zero-knowledge -- like sync.com is.
I'm not exactly going drug deals...
That was my first thought.
If the potentially notched beam is strong enough, I might go for it. Deflection might still be ok or close to ok with only a door sized segment with reduced EI.
Those 2x6 posts will look ridiculous, like an accident. And that's if they're perfectly straight, not with some sweep like others have mentioned above.
My concern is for the long term state of technical knowledge in the profession. For decades, firms have employed and developed a lot of new guys. That's a big part of how knowledge is spread down the line. There's probably a critical amount of new blood that's required to keep the profession...
I tried Maple Flow about 18 months ago. I really wanted to like it, but gave up after the free trial period. It was a very primitive attempt at being Mathcad.
Lots of operations took many more keystrokes and mouse clicks than MC does, which is saying something because MC isn't super great at...
A few other gripes.
(The positives are pretty obvious, so the motivation behind listing gripes is to encourage competitors to not do these things. There seems like little hope PTC will be responsive. Also, maybe I'm wrong about some of these and there is a way to do them in MCP. If so, I'd love...
I've been using MC prime a lot for the last 18 months. In general, I like it, and use it a lot.
Biggest gripe: no way to see the same sheet in a split screen or multiple windows. Utterly f'ing ridiculous in 2025.
Second biggest gripe: The keyboard shortcut for subscript went from . to Ctrl -...
