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If indoors, don't worry about them, except for pure appearance, in which case apply a coating system appropriate for the location. Outdoors, same answer, but different products. Obviously, all coatings should have some degree of lifetime elastomeric properties for the full range of exposure. If ...

Two SE's 1. Basic - Everything - Buildings, Bridges, Dams, Towers, Marine, Tanks, etc., all quite generic loadings and materials interactions for general demonstration of broad spectrum structural design competency. 2. Advanced - ICC Code Sructures. 2.1. Earthquake Emphasis. 2.2. Wind Emphasis. ...

Good points by engineer Morrison. I have seen a cacophony of shimming and gusseting due to dimensioning, alignment, coping, etc. issues of steel (and aluminum) member connections in the field. Every case needs to be considered on its own merits. For any steel structure, assume some kind of welding ...

b) Is the most universal soil ballast pattern for most soils, especially for linear footings. Other issues are moisture content of granular soils above the footing (saturation above bottom of footing reduces gravity on footing and soils by SG of water) and moment from wall to footing impacts overlying ...

While working for a petroleum company in West Africa in the 1970's, US Peace Corps volunteer friends (liberal arts educated couple) assigned to a community development project in a neighboring country and I began a 15-20 day round trip snail mail correspondence on various issues generally associated ...