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Magnitude 7.1 hit Ridgecrest Friday night. If you're a structural engineer working in an office or in the field and experienced the earthquake shakes or you have seen an engineer that felt the earthquake shakes, in an office or in the field or at any other office or residential closed to epicenter or ...

Allen's comment is right on point. As far as the downward loading and the base plate are concerned. The grout might have shrinked with the shrinkage factor of 1-5%. ------------------------------ Sayed Maqsood S.M.ASCE Currently Looking for Employment Alameda CA (510)830-6285 --------------- ...

For the typical it's ok. Thank you for providing the sketch. It's an uplift wide flung column braced to the hollow structural section. The uplift tension force would determine the number of anchors to be used to resist the uplift force due to bracing. It's often not a good situation to brace light influenced ...

What's described might appear to be a typical column. More structural detail and a sketch is required. In this typical case, if the column is designed to be a gravity column, nuts are bearing vertical loads and thus far, the nuts should be designed to be adequate. However, in the case of a firm base ...

This could be a good research project to compare concrete elements vs. steel using a suitable software. Here's a few general notes; concrete and steel elements experiences axial, shear, and moment forces mainly. Even for some of the symmetric structures, the torsional force is approximately 2% which ...