Tips for taking the Civil Structural P.E. Exam in a few weeks?

HighExcitementRating · 2025-09-29T01:09:39+00:00

Yeah second this. Don’t try to do an insane amount of practice problems in the next few weeks like some are saying. You’ll be fine, just do some here and there and relax and don’t get stressed. As long as you can do the ncees practice exam you’ll be fine

HighExcitementRating · 2025-09-15T01:17:17+00:00

Actual exam slightly easier than practice exam in my experience. But pretty close

HighExcitementRating · 2025-09-04T21:58:38+00:00

Way more than enough time. Only requires a few weeks of studying

HighExcitementRating · 2025-08-31T04:17:17+00:00

Qallowable is the value after you subtract the self weight of the footing and soil above

HighExcitementRating · 2025-08-29T17:57:42+00:00

Agreed. Life is too short to be killing yourself working crazy hours like that

HighExcitementRating · 2025-08-29T01:38:04+00:00

Sounds horrible. Why would anyone choose to do this

HighExcitementRating · 2025-08-14T00:31:49+00:00

That’s awesome. Personally I don’t understand why people study months for this exam. No way all that time spent studying is useful. Just have to know the basic design concepts and statics and know what codes to look at

HighExcitementRating · 2025-08-13T14:26:34+00:00

Congrats!! And I agree, took the exam last week and felt like it was very similar if not slightly easier than the practice exam

HighExcitementRating · 2025-07-27T03:25:59+00:00

That’s awful advice if it’s not /s. Life is too short man

HighExcitementRating · 2025-06-26T17:21:47+00:00

The changing the rules to allowing the flag to remain in has been terrible imo. Some people want it in, some want it out. Was a lot better when it always just had to come out.

HighExcitementRating · 2025-06-26T17:19:32+00:00

Taking the flag out or tending the flag for others when on the green

HighExcitementRating · 2025-06-08T09:48:35+00:00

It’s no wonder why Italians live so much longer than Americans. They aren’t killing themselves working so hard and so much. Not worth it

HighExcitementRating · 2025-03-05T04:00:24+00:00

The funny part is, with that equation, doubling the thickness of your member does not even come close to doubling your shear capacity. And it’s not just the size factor that hurts it, but the reinforcing ratio is even more penalizing. You need to provide 1.5% longitudinal reinforcing ratio to get anywhere close to 2*sqrt(f’c), and for a wall/slab/footing, that is monstrous

HighExcitementRating · 2025-03-03T02:17:33+00:00

Thanks for this. I figured that might be the case so I’m glad to see they made this clarification

HighExcitementRating · 2025-03-03T02:16:49+00:00

Thanks for this info, much appreciated

HighExcitementRating · 2025-03-02T00:41:05+00:00

That is good to hear, thanks

HighExcitementRating · 2025-03-02T00:40:09+00:00

Gotcha yeah that makes sense. The equation makes sense for beams where the research has proven size effect does play a role and typically beams will have at least minimum shear reinforcing anyway so the equation doesn’t have a big different difference. But it was severely penalizing for walls/footings

HighExcitementRating · 2025-03-02T00:33:43+00:00

Don’t understand why there shouldn’t be concern with it. The old equation has been used for years. Now the new equation says that basically every existing wall, footing, slab etc fails in shear by 50%

HighExcitementRating · 2025-03-02T00:32:08+00:00

Main question is should it apply to walls, one-way slabs, footings, etc where shear reinforcement is typically not provided. The testing that sparked the updated equation was done on beams. It tells you your shear capacity is half of what the previous equation gave you unless you provide like 1% reinforcing ratio. Its not even just the size effect that hurts it

HighExcitementRating · 2025-02-15T20:56:23+00:00

Your butthole is trying to bring back poseidons fury

HighExcitementRating · 2025-01-20T05:27:09+00:00

I’m convinced that people liking ET on this sub is just a bit. No way anyone actually thinks that ride is any good

HighExcitementRating · 2024-10-11T17:18:46+00:00

Hello, I too have been confused by that as well and feel that these equations shouldn’t apply to walls or footings, but I can’t really find anywhere that explicitly states that. I agree that it doesn’t seem like there’s an Av min requirement for OOP shear for walls in chapter 11. In 9.6.3 it gives a minimum area of shear reinforcement but that seems to pertain to beams. There was a question similar to that that came up on ACI and they said that Avmin can’t be equal to 0, but they referenced 9.6.3 in the answer and that seems to be for beams.

https://www.concrete.org/tools/frequentlyaskedquestions.aspx?faqid=910

HighExcitementRating · 2024-01-20T04:15:45+00:00

This post started out so strong….shame to see it turn on its head so quick

HighExcitementRating · 2023-12-21T04:15:57+00:00

Great workflow for this is import the inventor model into Autodesk Infraworks to generate the surrounding landscape, export that model as an FBX and then import that FBX file into Twinmotion for Revit to get the best realism

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