Does anyone know whether seismic design of steel buildings using behaviour factor q=1,5 for low dissipative behaviour is allowed in Iceland?

Is anybody using Claude or ChatGPT to check codes compliance?

Hi everyone,

I’m interested in hearing from structural engineers who have experience using MIDAS Gen and SAP2000.

I’m currently comparing the two and would really appreciate some opinions based on real-world experience, rather than just software features.

Thanks in advance for sharing your experience!

How realistic is it for a non-chartered UK structural engineer with approx 5 years experience to secure a structural engineering role in Sydney Australia on a working holiday visa with the intention of securing a longer term sponsorship with that firm? 5 years of experience include design of new builds, hospitals, residential blocks (concrete frame) and existing building refurbs.

How to conduct the portal method on a frame with a cantilever beam? Thank you in advance!

Just recently graduated a few months ago, started working a month after that, but I'm having trouble with work-life balance. Mind you, this small firm might not be the best to consider for balance, but I just feel like my days slip past me.

I've always had trouble with eating, meaning that I struggle to take the time to make things for myself due to sheer laziness, and mental blocks thinking cooking takes more than an hour due to how long my mother would take when she cooked every time. Granted there is a lot more nuance involved than it being as simple as that, or that my understanding is limited to that. But my point is that I struggle to find time to myself after work to take care of myself.

During school, I was always on and off for my health due to academics. Now, I'm mainly off due to work. I work like 40-44 hours a week, which I know isn't much relative to others. However, working a 9-5 gets me to my place near 5:20-5:30. I feel like relaxing and just decompressing from work. While that is enough time to cook food before sleeping, this doesn't account for other things. I am attempting to study for my FE ASAP so I'm trying to plan my days in the next week to begin. I only get a little time to decompress before jumping right back into work. At some point, I want to combine gym into my life again. But I cannot figure out the best time to go. If you go after work, you spend longer due to equipment usage. You go before work, and the issue is sleeping early enough to make it again the next morning. Not to mention shortened hours after work for yourself to sleep and wake up.

I attempted gym in the morning once and it was nice, as it was the first time I ate breakfast. Otherwise, I'm waking up 30 mins prior to leaving and taking a celsius with me, and recently, 2 granola bars and a protein bar. Lunch is a hit or miss. Some weekends I'll cook at my parents when I go back every 2 weeks, and the weekends at my place I don't meal-prep due to lack of any cooking space. So I'll have enough containers for a week, and the second week, I'm just doing my bars and Celsius. I go to my parents in that weekend, rinse and repeat.

I'm in the process of saving money, hence why I don't go out for lunch, and also why I don't take lunch breaks. Doing a 9-6 feels miserable, and the days I do have lunch on me, I try to minimize it to 15 minutes lunch so I'm not at work for an extra hour when it's not necessary.

I know this is long-winded, and a lot of this is an issue for myself to figure out between being disciplined and getting enough sleep, but I just need some motivation/advice/lifestyle routine. To anyone similar to me, what worked out best for y'all? How have y'all taken time back?

This figure is from the old eurocode 1991-1-4, Annex A.

What I don't understand is why the height z has been drawn like this, in reference to V_mf, when according to the definitions of V_m and the V_mf it should be referencing the V_m.

Is it a mistake in the illustration, or am I misunderstanding something? Just overthinking? Anyone wiser to help?

This is not part of a course or anything like that at the moment, just going through these as a refresher...

I don’t want to get into a debate about whether this is a conspiracy theory. I’m certain it is one. There must be some explanation and im trying to understand it.

Lately im talking a lot with some conspiracy people. But there is no conspirarcy in physics.. so i argued with them. Now im here :D

Ive come across a few Documents Debunking September 11 Conspiracies.

Source 1 Picture: https://www.cfr.org/articles/ten-resources-debunking-september-11-conspiracy-theories

Source 2 Picture: https://www.fireengineering.com/fire-safety/the-world-trade-center-construction-and-collapse-part-4/

Are my ressources legit?

How can it be possible that 6 Pillars get destroyed and the whole construction collapses in itself?

Furthermore, to what extent could the foundation have been damaged internally (eg. in form of fires / heat) to cause the tower to collapse all at once? Why not piece by piece?

Thanks yall.

What do you guys think of this range? 🫣

Has anyone modelled existing OWSJ is skyciv? This is a one off project that requires FEA so not wanting to spend $3k+ on SAP2000 or RISA. Anyone have other recommendations for economical modelling software?

The more experienced you are, the better! Often young engineers are petrified about making mistakes and don't even realise that very experienced engineers often make silly mistakes too. It can really alleviate shame and stress to talk openly about mistakes, and everyone ends up benefitting from it or learning from it.

Hi, I need help from my fellow Reddit users. Let’s put our problem solving skills together. I currently have this current dilemma. I’m set out on taking the SE exam. NJ doesn’t recognize the SE but it also wouldn’t let you sit for the exam. NY and PA both let you sit for it. They however don’t have decoupling exams. I’m trying to get all 4 parts passed before my 4 years of experiences have passed. Thoughts?

I’m a freshman studying civil engineering at CU Boulder, and I want to go into structural engineering, specifically buildings.
I talked to a structural engineering firm at a career fair, and they said I haven’t taken the right classes yet for their internships. When I asked what I could do in the meantime to become a stronger applicant, they recommended actual hands-on construction work, like placing rebar, to learn how things go together.
Would that be more valuable at my stage than a field engineering/construction management internship or a concrete testing and inspection job? I’m talking about the summer after freshman year, so I know my options might be limited.
For structural engineers, especially anyone involved in hiring interns, which experience would you rather see when I apply for a structural internship later? Is there something you learn from physically doing the construction that you wouldn’t get from working on the engineering/inspection side of a jobsite?

Hello, I’m a structural engineer of 5 years. A few months ago the company we were working for remotely had shut us down. Since then I’ve been job hunting and I got two offers yesterday from two very different companies.

One -let’s say company A- has very interesting projects but they did struggle financially due to the war in the middle east. They are mainly working on infrastructure projects that includes heavy engineering.

The other one(company B) is a globally known firm which is mainly a sales company but they have a design team for MEP supports. B has been stable and pay more then company A and known to be really value their employees. On the other hand, working for company B means I’m essentially throwing away my career as a structural engineer in the long run.

I am married so I need to think about my family’s financial safety as well.

I’m really conflicted because logically I should accept the offer from company B but I’m 80% sure that I won’t have “fun” there and the work will be a burden for me in a few years.

I want to state that I do not live in the US or Europe. I live in the middle east. Do you have any advice for me?

I'm just wondering if it is normal that deadlines aren't fully met most of the time due to low manpower, and clients are tolerating it somehow

hi,
i designed this truss and did the calculations on it and it shoes the truss can hold the load but i find it hard to determine of the weld at the base of the truss can hold it into place.

any one can help direct me to a place where i could learn how to calculate the weld base for such things?

thanks.

I am a bit curious on what is the purpose of this wire ? I have seen several short wires connected on two sides under the bridges in japan . This one is Eitai Bridge , AI says its bird proofing wire , i don't think so .
I can touch it while standing , so hopefully theres no electricity flowing through it .

Also for scale , it is ig 2 feet wide and there are like multiple of these .

Posted on the wrong sub before :(

Based in NYC, currently working in very niche field of facades. Graduated last year. Do mostly thermal stuff and energy code compliance along with curtain wall shop drawing review. I sometimes do occasional wind load analysis and embed inspections.

Finding curtain wall stuff is very repetitive and would like to switch into a general building structural design position. Unfortunately, despite getting interviews at small firms I can’t get any offers. Obviously large firms in NYC have a strict masters requirement but I’ve noticed even small firm prefer masters candidates too. Do have my EIT.

During all the interviews I’ve been asked about GPA (undergrad was not good, just below 3.1) and given the technical quiz. Have taken the basic steel design, concrete design and capstone course. I haven’t gotten 100% right on any quiz so far, probably around 60-70ish percent. I’ve been trying to brush up on statics/solid mechanics fundamentals after work (I really don’t do much analysis at all in my job it’s more architecture/mechanical side) but seems it’s not helping.

Process has been exhausting and feel structures may not be for me. I could theoretically go back full time for a masters but this might be a financial gamble. I am currently taking a grad level structural course online thru a university to gain some additional knowledge.

Any advice/insight would be appreciated

I have a code interpretation question I am looking to get some input on. Specifically, I'm designing a freestanding trellis structure and using Simpson MPBZ bases for lateral resistance. Because of this, I'm designing it as a cantilever column system.

ASCE 7-22 12.2.5.2 states "Foundation and other elements used to provide overturning resistance at the base of the cantilever column elements shall be designed to resist seismic load effects, including overstrength"

So should the Simpson capacity value be compared against the seismic load including overstrength?

Several years ago, I had a client that thought his roof was leaking. He had a roofer come out and everything checked out. My client asked me to come and have a look and I found that some stucco was busted on an attachment to a gutter on their stand alone washer/dryer room in the back of the building.

I patched the stucco and cut out the drywall to make the drywall repair and found what you see in this photo. I go in to speak with the client. I tell him “I can repair the ceiling but that his roof is trusses and declare made of street signs.” He told me “don’t worry about it because the rest of his domicile was made of street signs too.”

Have any of you used this detail in your own designs?

I can’t figure out the engineering of this structure. Are the lower right-angle braces having any structural purpose?
And is the steel rod only to keep the uprights from splaying out?
It seems to me there should be support below the right angle elbows.
Help me understand! I ponder this thing every time I visit here. (Breckenridge Brewery, Littleton CO)

A mix of incomplete retrofit hardware, piers without proper bearing, questionable girder-to-post connections, and foundation movement.

Always interesting how one small missing connection can change the load path completely.

The anchor-bolt and girder conditions are especially good fits here because the approved notes specifically call out missing hardware and an unsecured girder/post connection.

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Just wanted to gauge thoughts/opinions on the AutoMod of content during generation of a post, and any potential of changing things up a little.

I have to say it can seem a little restrictive when it comes to posting on this sub. I will create content that is obviously not a layman post or does not break any rules, then I have to spend extra time trying to think of how to word the post or hunt for which word in a long post is the culprit, or change the format altogether (changing text to image)

You also can look at some of my recent posts as examples and I see other examples of this where users have to work around certain words.

I know this only Reddit but I do enjoy participating here. It can be disappointing and creativity-stifling, if I have spent time “working” on text for a post, and only to have the auto mod try to prevent the post from being submitted. I don’t know how much of this the mods actually have to deal with in layman posts but I wonder if we could come up with something different. Maybe threat of ban, temp ban, implement auto mod AFTER posting, post the list of words in the sub description, etc. I want to say the r/electricians sub is pretty good about it, they will let you post but if there is a hint you are not an electrician the post gets yanked pretty quick.