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Indeed that formwork is inadequate. I fully agree with James, chipping or sandblasting the soffit plus a bonding agent before shotcreting will do the job. ------------------------------ Napoleon De La Colina Ing., A.M.ASCE Eng Mgr ICM - Ingenieria Civil Montajes LIMA ------------------------ ...

I also agree with that and also checking with the manufacturer. In that way the owner's engineer would have nothing more to say. ------------------------------ Napoleon De La Colina Ing., A.M.ASCE Eng Mgr ICM - Ingenieria Civil Montajes LIMA ------------------------------

Thank you William for bringing up this point. I have extracted few sentences and will put them on the notice board of the office. No doubt all codes and rules set (including the ten commandments) are meant to help us to do good, but the role of the educator -the boss, the mentor, is to "give reasons ...

Berhan, ETABS requires you to define one load combination (one at a time for each analysis) that best represents the conditions of your analysis. Since you are interested in analysing the second order effects due to lateral loading of the seven Load combinations offered by ASCE7 (LRDF), those containing ...