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Hi Stephanie, as a formerly full-time practitioner turned full-time professor-of-practice, quite a number of the topics that you mention are not covered at the undergraduate level but are covered at the Master's degree level. I notice students primarily concentrating on the "design" classes, even at ...

Never weld high strength nuts, due to the potential loss of strength on the nut. A tack weld is possible, as it is around the perimeter of the nut and can neither be on the bearing surface, nor affect the threaded portion of the nut. The tack weld is not structural and should only be large enough to ...

Hi Darrell, Many of the NDT for timber structural assessment are useful where there is significant damage that is not visible. Unfortunately, for practicing engineers, these techniques are usually not very useful. Many owners want to know if there is any damage that can be proactively treated. Wood ...

That article references AISI S240-15, B1.1. B1.1-B1.1.2 read as follows: B1.1.1 Application of Live Load Reduction on Wall Studs For the purpose of calculating the design axial load on a wall using floor live load reduction requirements in accordance with the applicable building code, the tributary ...

I use Tedds and write my own calculations in Tedds for Word. There is no commercial software that does what I want to do. I used to use MathCad and Excel, but Tedds is better. Tedds allows user created dialogs with data checking, so you can be certain that you update every variable for every new engineering ...