List of Contributions

I have used Tedds and Struware's Code Search program, and I'm very fond of both. I have not used enercalc. I'll just add some quick notes on Tedds because it's already been covered. You get a strong sense of what's going on at the cost of longer outputs. I find it very effective for beam designs (steel ...

Per ASCE 7-10, bedrooms must be designed for at least 30psf and all other floors must be designed for at least 40psf. The descriptions in the table in ASCE 7-10 chapter 4 - Live Loads are more detailed than this, but that's the gist of it. ------------------------------ Paul Chabot P.E., M.ASCE ...

The point of camber is to balance out dead load deflection so that you have an approximately flat member once your dead loads are in place. I'm not an expert in concrete so correct me if this is off, but don't they normally put chairs in intermittently to keep the reinforcing at the correct elevation ...

Franklin, My following thought is an idea on why the codes don't address it, and I'm open to hear why they could be wrong, but from what I've learned about codes and code writing so far, it's my understanding as to why stress concentrations aren't addressed directly. Without digging through the ...