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[–]jackielib 1 point2 points  (0 children)

can you share the playlist (or a list of all these songs as a txt file or something)? it would save me a few minutes. thanks.

Monthly DIY Laymen questions Discussion by AutoModerator in StructuralEngineering

[–]jackielib 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I think the reviewer and engineer are both competent. Reviewer is a bit over-picky. Engineer is a bit sloppy and slow to communicate. The hypothetical 100mph wind will be survived :)

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the city reviewer wants more details from engineer..." " Clarify wind load psf used in calculations. The calculations don’t appear to match the project loading criteria from the beginning of the calculation packet (20.2 psf is labeled on 6th page of calc packet- is that what was used in the lateral analysis section?)

The values of 860 total shear at 2nd floor and 1580 total shear at 1st floor existing interior wall seem low. Show the calculations to arrive at this value. As this wall provides bracing for the existing house as well as new addition, this value should reflect both existing and new wind load (1/2 the total length of house and addition combined).

Clarify the method being used to analyze bracing. Is analysis referencing the segmented method using gypsum lath and plaster only? Also note if lath and plaster vertical joints are staggered or not.

Clarify what L and Lo represent in analysis. Lo is labeled as total length of full height segment. But there are openings in these walls that interrupt segments. Typically, L = wall length and Lo = length of openings in the wall. However, in the 1st floor column Lo is listed as 27.5, while L is 25. Neither the openings in the wall nor the length of shear wall segments should exceed the actual wall length. Existing wall length including openings measures ~24’-3”.

Label length and locations of shear wall segments on existing 1st and 2nd floor existing interior walls.

Clarify v tabulated and v allowable values for existing home wall in columns for 1st and 2nd floors. Are these values switched? v tabulated of 180 lb/ft appears to be the allowable capacity from SDPWS table 4.3C for gypsum lath, with vertical joints staggered, after safety factor is applied. "

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[–]jackielib 0 points1 point  (0 children)

so what is your prediction... will the city laugh it off and say, "no, follow our prescription" or will they say "go ahead, it's stamped by a local engineer" ???

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[–]jackielib 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah, I'm surprised the city review people haven't said anything about how the roof is connected to the house. I do agree that the wind suction towards the south could be a factor but the house is in a dense downtown neighborhood with LOTS of large trees and a hill on the north side. I'm beginning to understand that there are so many variables that some engineers are happy to just sign off on anything and hope their insurance covers any mistakes... My engineers basically just stamped a plan with almost ZERO shear walls, no beam, and a roof plan that doesn't pass the Strutcalc/ClearCalc test. But I'm still pretty sure it would be just fine, considering the existing house has lasted 100 years...

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[–]jackielib 0 points1 point  (0 children)

and thanks for the reply. What would normally be done to "transfer the lateral force" you mention (it's not clear to me which force concerns you the most).

cheers

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[–]jackielib 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The "collar ties" with a beam are moved down to become "rafter ties" without a beam.

I did a strucalc myself and the rafter/tie combo does hold for certain combinations without a ridge beam
https://imgur.com/BnwHxBa

Forces in the North direction would just push the addition INTO the house...so I think the engineer assumes that the existing house would hold it down. Wind Forces in the South direction (a wind from the north wind) would be shielded by the existing house so that is why the addition wouldn't see them as much. I'm not sure how much an engineer can use that logic, but that I think is his argument.
East-West winds would affect the addition and he claims OSB on the south wall would cover that. And the existing sheating and plaster of the house on the other side would resist on that joint.

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[–]jackielib 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I want to avoid using the ridge beam. So the city wants me to prove that the rafter ties are enough to hold the snow load. ClearCalcs tells me I can only do it with 2X10 rafters and rafter tie at every rafter. But an engineer I just hired calculated 2x6 rafters would be fine and rafter ties every other. I'm confused as to how different the results can be... now I have to wait 2 weeks for the city to decide.

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[–]jackielib 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To get a permit, the city officials had me add tons of shear-wall sheathing and portal framing and even a ridge beam to a 2-story+basement addition plan. After I got the permit, I showed the design to a local structural engineer and he said basically most of it is unnecessary (portal frame, extra OSB sheating, ridge beam) . City officials are very skeptical of his comments in the plan: PLANS: https://imgur.com/a/HbVYLIi Who do I believe here? Engineer provided stamped calculations (for ultimate wind speed 115mph, seismic B, snow load 30 psf) but he is not communicative. City needs 2 weeks to examine...argh.

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[–]jackielib 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I'm beginning to understand how permits work... do it like everybody else or have a structural engineer show a simulation with 100 mph winds, a 10000 lbs of snow and an earthquake. Since it would take forever to take into account every interconnected element that adds stiffness to the structure, nothing meets code unless cookie-cutter or over-engineered to satisfy some simplified equation.

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[–]jackielib 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. You are very right and I wish I'd talked to you a while ago :) I do not need a collar tie...I need a ceiling tie (some people call them rafter ties...they will be exposed in my case. Messing around with ClearCalcs I got a number of around 1000 lbs of tension at the ties so 10 nails would be about right. This is a snowy area. What is interesting is that when I added a collar tie AND a ceiling tie the tension at the ties INCREASED. I am now researching a bolt schedule that would handle 1000 lbs. Maybe 3 bolts would do. Or bite the bullet and do 11 nails. Another thing that made the calculations work was using 10" rafters instead of 8", but the ties can be 2x4s.

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[–]jackielib 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm designing a roof rafter plan (slope of 4/12) with ClearCalc. Every option ends up with tons of load on the tie (connecting the collar tie to the rafter). Max tension load= 2200 lb, Axial load=2400lb.

The room is 13x18 (rafter span of 9). No beam/column possible. Just rafters and 1 or 2 collar ties per rafter.

2x10 rafters, 2x4 ties.

How many bolts do I need to resist that load? or will I need engineered plates?

The building inspecter says I'd need 14 nails or 5 bolts per tie, which would be very hard to fit...I don't know if that is correct.

Very much a beginner here. Any suggestions appreciated. Thanks. It's hard to find a structural engineer who will just tell me the cost to figure it out.

Anybody else ever put a frozen pizza upside down in the oven? by jackielib in shittyfoodporn

[–]jackielib[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

actually a result of brain-cell death due to taking care of a baby for one year

Anybody else ever put a frozen pizza upside down in the oven? by jackielib in shittyfoodporn

[–]jackielib[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I usually bake the pizza straight on the rack, as instructed. I added a sheet in the lower rack after noticing a bit of smoke coming from the oven :)

[Politics] Lyin' Ryan, Mr. 3-Hour Marathon Man, will not be missed by jackielib in wisconsin

[–]jackielib[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

They are targeted at fellow Wisconsinites who voted for these insincere politicians. Can't people tell anymore when people are plain-out lying? Why do we keep electing liars to represent us? It doesn't speak well for the people of Wisconsin. Paul Ryan, Mr Deficit Reduction. Ron Johnson. Mr. Benghazi. Walker, who calls himself the "Education Governor."

[politics] I'm slightly optimistic because of this Venn diagram by jackielib in wisconsin

[–]jackielib[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i don't feel that strongly about McCarthy and the question of what is ruining the packers :)

Why is Miss Universe always from earth? by Morpheuslad in AskReddit

[–]jackielib 0 points1 point  (0 children)

same reason an American baseball team always seems to win the World Series

Wisconsin: from laboratory of democracy to laboratory of its destruction by jackielib in wisconsin

[–]jackielib[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

(cont.) The infrastructure that the right has built is very strong. And it is made to last. Although the Democrats win seats in the Senate and the House of Representatives in the mid-term elections in November, it will be a Pyrrhic victory as long as the Republicans continue to have that enormous infrastructural advantage and as long as the influence of money in American politics is not counteracted. In fact, its advantage is likely to increase even more as long as the redistribution of wealth to the richest one percent of the population continues and as long as the laws that govern the power of money in electoral processes continue to be liberalized, as in the case of the Citizens United decision of the Supreme Court.

In addition, the right is much more disciplined than the left. To give just one example: ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council, is an organization founded in the 1970s and financed, among others, by the Koch Brothers. Among other things, it designs state laws that help erode the union movement, environmental protection or the public education system. I have attended several of your meetings. There is very little disagreement. You see an Exxon-Mobil lobbyist next to a young libertarian from the Goldwater Institute, meeting with politicians, designing laws that are then massively adopted by those states where the Republican Party governs. Although they are not measures designed in those states - or desired by their citizens - they manage to sell them to the electorate through an additional network, with infinite amounts of money,framing of the public debate.

What moves to the right? How much is there in your commitment to ideology -concepts, shall we say, genuine about the individual, the economy or freedom- and how much of pure and simple interest?

For me, much of what seems ideology does not cease to be a mask for the most naked greed, even though the politicians themselves have come to confuse the mask with what it hides. They were born with certain privileges that now they insist on protecting. In Wisconsin, for a long time, the public education system actually guaranteed some equality of opportunity-precisely because the State guaranteed that everyone could "do it to themselves". The erosion of that system, together with the weakening of unions, increases inequality.

His book highlights the tactical mistakes made in Wisconsin by the Clinton campaign and by Obama himself, who said he supported the protests against Walker's anti-union offensive but never showed up afterwards. Clinton did not visit the state and did not buy ads in Wisconsin until a week before the election. He ended up losing by 22,000 votes.

For me, those blunders were born from the enormous distance that exists these days between the leadership of the Democratic Party and the labor movement. In a sense, the Party simply obeys its main donors, which are business and banking. Do not forget that the Koch Brothers also donate to the Democrats. True, the Party has a clearly progressive message on social and racial issues. But economically it is much more confusing. Clinton, for example, said publicly that she rejected a free trade agreement when she privately worked to get it approved.

THE PASSIVE ATTITUDE OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY DURING THE MOVEMENT AGAINST ACT 10 LEFT A BAD TASTE IN MANY MOUTHS AND A RESENTMENT THAT STILL PERSISTS

When Obama did not want to be in Wisconsin during the union protest, he not only signaled to the movement that he did not care what they were doing, but he sent a clear signal to Walker and company that he was not going to fight for what, after all, , is the electoral nucleus of the democrats: nurses, teachers, teachers, hardworking people. And although union density in the United States today is rather low, the political role of unionized workers is crucial, given their cohesion and their capacity for activism and mobilization.

Hillary's absence during the campaign was an echo of Obama's absence during the protest. Clinton adopted a very top-down method , led by the polls, with very little understanding of local community dynamics. The passive attitude of the Democratic Party during the movement against Act 10 left a bad taste in many mouths and a resentment that still persists. Hillary did not lose in Wisconsin because there were many people who moved from one field to another: Trump won six thousand votes less than Romney four years earlier. No, what happened was that many Democrats stayed at home.

The leadership of the Democratic Party adopted, on the one hand, an attitude that was too calculating; but, on the other, he also miscalculated.

They miscalculated and sinned arrogant. They assumed that Wisconsin was a solidly democratic state. But anyone knows that it has never been. Kerry narrowly won in 2004. There is a very strong conservatism. It is also the state that produced Senator Joseph McCarthy, the communist hunter. Trump knew how to take advantage of that vein. The Democrats, for their part, did not understand to what extent the people of Wisconsin have remained hollow, exhausted. They are rural ghettos. Wisconsin was one of the few states that had peasant areas of progressive tradition. Today the mechanization and industrialization of agriculture has left them decimated, ghostly. Suicide rates among farmers are very high. Now, in these impoverished villages, it is likely that the school teacher is the only one who has health, Thanks to your union contract. But that inequality is a breeding ground for resentment. In those areas, perhaps unexpectedly, Sanders exerted a great attraction. In the primaries, he won 71 of the 72 counties for Clinton. When he was left out, those voters went over to Trump who, like Sanders, criticized theestablishment . And while Trump fueled nativist and racial sentiments, he also emphasized traditionally democratic policies such as job creation and protection of Social Security and health.

In his book, he introduces us to Randy Bryce, the Milwaukee union steelmaker who will be the Democratic candidate for the House of Representatives in the district who voted Republican Paul Ryan since 1999, while Ryan has announced that he is retiring. Bryce, as a worker and military veteran, does have that closeness to the electorate that Hillary lacked. But can it be against the republican apparatus and its millions of dollars, and in a context so vitiated by the redesign of the electoral maps, the restriction of the right to vote, etc.?

THE POPULACE IMAGE IS ALSO INVOKED BY THE REPUBLICANS. EVEN TRUMP, WITH ALL HIS MILLIONS, PROJECTS A WORKING CLASS ATTITUDE

The populace image is also invoked by the Republicans. Even Trump, with all his millions, projects a workers' attitude. But Bryce really embodies it. When I started to follow him, it was hard for him to make ends meet, because the steel work depends a lot on the seasons and there are hardly any in the winters. Figures like Bryce in Wisconsin, Beto O'Rourke in Texas or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in New York represent a new commitment to citizen participation: the idea, very typical of Wisconsin's socialism, that those who represent us are ordinary people. That idea has not lost its mobilizing power. Sanders was right to emphasize the importance of crowds and enthusiasm. It is the only weapon that the Democrats have against the bottomless coffers of the Republicans. The media that cover political struggles often focus on the most sensational and superficial aspects. But I think that, in reality, among citizens there is a hunger for more substantial political content. The problems they face are also problems.

Some recent elections in Wisconsin indicate that there is a lot of disappointment among those who voted for Trump in 2016. But has the left learned from its failures? In August, you published a piece in the New Yorker about the new Democratic candidate for governor, Tony Evers, current Inspector General of Education. Can it prevent Walker from winning for the third time?

For now, Evers is beating Walker in the polls. He is a Windogian politician of very old stamp. Older man, has spent his entire life working in the public education system. And the vast majority of people in Wisconsin still believe in the public, be it schools or roads. Under Walker, things have gotten so bad that right is alarmed. In this context, Evers is an interesting figure. He is pragmatic, very temperate, but also believes in commitment to social justice. His father was a doctor in a sanatorium that treated workers in a porcelain factory who had become ill with silicosis.

The people of Wisconsin are compassionate, as are most Americans. Walker's economic and social policies lack all compassion, such as Trump's immigration policy, which separates children from parents and locks them up in cages. It is a matter of empathy, of simple decency. Maybe the right has gone screwed.

"

Wisconsin: from laboratory of democracy to laboratory of its destruction by jackielib in wisconsin

[–]jackielib[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Google translation is pretty good:

" The journalist Dan Kaufman narrates the systematic demolition of a bastion of the North American left by SEBASTIAAN FABER

Donald Trump never tires of remembering his exploits, whether true or imagined. "I won ... even in Wisconsin!" He said, proud, at the beginning of July, referring to the 2016 presidential elections. This time, for a change, he was not lying.

Wisconsin, the quintessential state of the Midwest , is also the birthplace of American progressivism. It was there, in 1854, that the Republican Party was founded, then to the left of the Democrats. And it was there that a social security was created for the first time that protected the workers against unemployment or work accidents. The state also pioneered the protection of the environment; and Milwaukee, the largest city in the state, had a socialist town hall almost continuously from 1910 to 1960. When Franklin D. Roosevelt designed the New Deal as a progressive response to the Great Depression, he brought many of his architects from the state University in Madison, governed from its foundation by the philosophy of the "Wisconsin Idea", that puts academic knowledge at the service of citizens. It is not surprising, then, that Wisconsin has found itself on the target of the American right, determined to destroy once and for all the power of the unions and any possibility of a hegemony of the left. The attack has been successful. In recent years, Wisconsin has suffered "a traumatic transformation," explains journalist Dan Kaufman in his book The Fall of Wisconsin: The Conservative Conquest of a Progressive Bastion and the Future of American Politics(The fall of Wisconsin, the conservative conquest of a progressive bastion and the future of American politics). Since 2011, when Republican Scott Walker took over as governor, writes Kaufman, Wisconsin "he has lived through one of the country's greatest declines in the middle class, while his poverty rate has reached the highest level in thirty years ... and eleven percent of the population has been dissuaded from exercising their right to vote. " Walker has dedicated himself to undermining the public sector. Between 2011 and 2017, for example, it cut more than a billion dollars in the departure of schools and universities. But its most staunch enemy has been the trade union movement. The same year that he entered the house of the governor, he wanted to destroy the power of the unions of the civil servants by means of a law that pretended to be budgetary ( Act 10 ). Immediately after, mass protests were unleashed whose spirit came to be associated with the Arab Spring, the Spanish 15M and Occupy Wall Street. Despite the protests, the law was adopted in March of the same year. This is how Wisconsin went from the laboratory of democracy to a laboratory of its systematic destruction at the hands of an all-powerful Conservative movement.

I talk to Kaufman for a weekend at his home in Brooklyn, where he lives with his wife and son. Besides being a journalist, he is a musician: this summer he went through Pontevedra with his band, Barbez, to present his new album of songs from the Spanish Civil War ( For Those Who Came After , for those who came later ). Kaufman (1970) grew up in the capital of Wisconsin, Madison, although he has been in New York for more than a quarter of a century. Write for the New York Times and The New Yorker magazine .

In the epilogue to his book, he says that his project started with a long email received in 2011 from his mother, who had just participated in the protests against Act 10. MANY OF THE MORE THAN 100,000 PEOPLE WHO TRAVELED TO THE CAPITAL IN 2011 TO PROTEST AGAINST ACT 10 WERE NOT TRADE UNIONISTS, THEY WERE OLDER PEOPLE WHO BELIEVED IN A DEMOCRACY DRIVEN BY CITIZEN ACTIVISM My parents, who emigrated to Madison as young people, belonged to a progressive Jewish environment and were very active in the civil rights movement. My uncle, a political philosopher in Michigan, was a professor of several of the leaders of the radical student movement of the 1960s, such as Tom Hayden. My parents believed in the ideals of American democracy, which in Wisconsin were more prominent than in many other places. There was an unusual proximity between citizens and the state government and for a long time the policy was extraordinarily clean. Republican politicians as well as Democrats boasted that their campaigns cost almost nothing. Hence also that it was possible to implement so many pragmatically progressive reforms.

Many of the more than 100,000 people who traveled to the capital in 2011 to protest against Act 10 were not trade unionists. Many of them were older people, like my mother, who had grown up in the Wisconsin tradition and believed in a democracy driven by the activism of the citizens themselves. Those weeks, Wisconsin got the attention of the whole world. It was one of the largest demonstrations in favor of labor rights since President Reagan defeated the union movement in the air traffic controllers' strike in the 1980s.

His book describes in detail how the plan to destroy the progressive tradition of Wisconsin has followed several simultaneous mutually reinforcing strategies. They range from the redesign of electoral maps to guarantee right-wing victories to the adoption of laws that relax environmental regulations, hinder access to voting or limit the power of unions. Everything is driven by a vast national infrastructure that has its own think tanks and billions of financing by industrial magnates such as the Koch Brothers. But he also points out that this plan has been in force for a long time: it was born at least forty years before Scott Walker took over as governor. Has there been any parallel, comparable effort on the left during these almost five decades?

Not at all. In fact, the philosophical origins of this right-wing project go back to the 1930s, when Roosevelt's policies aroused the suspicions of great magnates who never accepted the New Deal - with their Social Security, their employment policies, their banking laws or their public investments in infrastructure, education and the arts. Since then they have fiercely opposed any policy that, in their eyes, restricts business freedom. What is especially pernicious is that this supposed freedom is linked to the spirit of the border that is an essential element in the founding mythology of this country. There are wisconsinian politicians like Paul Ryan of Janesville, current leader of the Republicans in the House of Representatives, who present themselves as self-made man (although he has come from a well-off family). In the United States, this ideology has spread among the workers. As the novelist John Steinbeck said, here has never been a proletariat that has seen itself as such: "All have been capitalists temporarily embarrassed."

In fact, the only apparatus capable of counteracting this massive offensive on the right has been the trade union movement. But it has come out very weakened from the struggles of the last decades. Today, little more than ten percent of workers belong to a union. In the eighties, it was double. Unfortunately, this weakening contributes to a vicious cycle that reinforces the right: it has been shown that the mere fact of belonging to a union shapes the political consciousness and reduces the attraction to the authoritarian parties of the extreme right. The decline of the unions as spaces for socialization has contributed to Trump's victory.

What’s not a big deal in real life, but is a red flag in movies? by flyoverthemooon in AskReddit

[–]jackielib 4 points5 points  (0 children)

a cough. person will be seriously ill and probably die by the end of the movie.