Structural Concepts: Structural Vocabulary
Concrete: Gunite & Shotcrete Concrete: Gunite & Shotcrete - Full Transcription So let's talk about shotcrete or gunite and gunite rather this is used mostly for slope stabilization and it is shot with a pneumatic gun and there's two kinds one is gunite the other is
Structural Concepts
Columns & Diagonal Braces: Column & Brace Slenderness 2 Columns & Diagonal Braces: Column & Brace Slenderness 2 - Full Transcription So let's discuss a little bit further the slenderness ratio of a column or a diagonal brace, be it in wood, steel, or concrete. So this page
Structural Concepts
Columns & Diagonal Braces: Column & Brace Slenderness 1 Columns & Diagonal Braces: Column & Brace Slenderness 1 - Full Transcription In this video, I'd like to talk about compression members, basically columns, diagonal braces, or anything that is in compression. And if it's slender enough,
Structural Systems
Wood: Wood Spanning Systems Wood: Wood Spanning Systems - Full Transcription In this video, in the next few videos, I would like to go over some structural systems in wood, steel, and concrete, and their spanning abilities and their traits and characteristics. But before doing that, I think it is
Material Properties & Terms
Wood: Board Foot Wood: Board Foot - Full TranscriptionThis video covers a couple of terms and concepts that pertain to timber construction. Here I took my students to a lumber sawmill and everything is computer controlled. As soon as these logs start to be processed, they are immediately scanned by
Lateral Loads Specific
Wind: Wind Exposure Categories Wind: Wind Exposure Categories - Full Transcription So this video is about wind exposure categories A, B, C, and D based on ASCE 7 minimum design loads issued by the American Society of Civil Engineers. This is based, these categories are based on surface roughness and
Structural Systems
Trusses: 5. Trusses Method Of Sections Math Trusses: 5. Trusses Method Of Sections Math - Full Transcription So let's look at the method of sections for solving the force in a truss member, just one member, or two maybe, maximum three. Okay, this page, and rather this problem,
Material Properties & Terms
Trusses: 4. Truss Method Of Joints Math Trusses: 4. Truss Method Of Joints Math - Full Transcription Now to finish this sheet, we've done all the easy members that did not need a lot of math. To finish this sheet, we're going to need a little
Lateral Loads Specific
Trusses: 3. Truss Zero Members Simple Joints Trusses: 3. Truss Zero Members Simple Joints - Full Transcription Let's look at this very, very, very, very ugly truss that is loaded with all kinds of loads. There are difficult questions and there are very simple questions. And that'
Structural Concepts
Trusses: 2b. Truss Chord And Web Forces Trusses: 2b. Truss Chord And Web Forces - Full Transcription Let's look at trusses through pictures. Let's try to observe some properties, and then we will articulate them on the drawings. So starting here in the middle with the
Structural Concepts
Trusses: 2a. Truss Chord And Web Forces Trusses: 2a. Truss Chord And Web Forces - Full Transcription So I'd like to go over this tension or compression business in trusses and in general, not just in trusses. So on this document, tension is expressed in blue. Anytime you
Structural Concepts
Trusses: 1. Truss Concepts Trusses: 1. Truss Concepts - Full Transcription So let's talk about trusses a bit. They span longer than beams do, and typically they're a lot lighter than beams because they don't have a solid web. They have a triangulated web,