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Designing the structure that supports components and cladding will be influenced by the type of cladding being attached to it. Each type of cladding has its own requirements. Deflection is likely to be the determining factor in some elements. I suggest finding a mentor that is in your firm to help ...

This is a critical topic, in my experience understanding cladding loads and glazing load as well as material capacity are tricky and the design is not easy. What have I seen? The reduced area loads are not properly applied during design The capacity of cladding assemblies is not properly understood. ...

Hi, The issue I would have with it is the failure mode. Buckling is a sudden, unpredictable failure. ------------------------------ Sarah Halsey P.E., M.ASCE New York NY ------------------------------

My take is that the SE is an attempt to rectify that the profession has fundamentally changed in the last 20-30 years. I started doing structural work around 2006 and worked with engineers who had been in the field for 30 or 40 years. I was lucky that the firm I worked at had a strong mentoring ...

Based on my experience it is better to not design too close to the allowed code for loads that cannot be easily or exactly calculated. I have had the privilege of working on project where the wind load was given by wind tunnel models and the wind load on the roof was surprisingly different from what ...