In today’s post, I will quickly summarize what I learned from a recent webinar called “Common Challenges in Wood Lateral System Layout.” It was presented by Terry Malone, Senior Technical Director at WoodWorks, who has decades of experience designing structures. The webinar’s goal was to help us recognize things that we need to watch out […]
Site Walls and Earthquake
This is the first article that I sent out on “Back of the Envelope” — where I teach you SE-related things in 5 minutes (or less), once a week. If after reading it and you kind of liked it, subscribe at the end of the post to be one of the first to get new […]
13 Things You Need to Know About “Seismic Design Criteria” (ASCE 7 Chapter 11)
Since I’ve been practicing structural engineering in California, I’ve kind of taken my experience with seismic design for granted. Not only it’s something that we do nearly every single day, it’s also required in order to get the PE license (CA has an additional 4-hour seismic portion on top of the regular NCEES 8-hour exam for the PE […]