Month: February 2008

Feb 01
Asymmetric and Singly Symmetric Sections in Compression

By David Blitenthall, Development Engineer, SAISC Last year the SAISC took its “Design of light industrial buildings” course to a number of cities and towns throughout South Africa. One of the things that became apparent to me while lecturing on the course was that a number of design engineers do not fully appreciate or understand […]

Feb 01
Detailed Drawings – The Last Chapter

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]PLATE GIRDERS (BEAMS AND COLUMNS) The most important issue that detailers overlook (possibly caused by the engineers as well) is the installation of web stiffeners (both load carrying and web shear). Whilst in theory plate girder webs with a relatively thin ratio of thickness to height can be made to be structurally suitable with the […]