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Good luck with this final week of studying.

I got an email from someone who unfortunately failed a part of the SE exam. They however did find an interesting nugget of information; at the end of the afternoon they ran out of time and had to write out steps for the problem. In their words: This has been confirmed before; however I don't...

I posted this for the PPI review course takers but wanted to share it here as well to see if people drew the same conclusion. I went through this forum and gathered as many failing scores as I could find to try to roughly determine the "cut score" that one could typically expect to see on the SE...

Good luck. Hope everyone feels ready.

Check out this on eng-tips: http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=376668 Someone got a license verification, this might be real!

Not sure who else has noticed but the NCEES has released the 2015 Design Standards and they've updated the codes as we expected: http://cdn4.ncees.co/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Str-Saturday-AM-Lateral-Forces_2011.pdf It appears they also removed the requirement for masonry to use ASD unless...

The past week I've been going back through everything skimming here, refreshing there, studying a few problems from each area. I've realized that I have very few references for the lateral forces design of masonry structures that I can quickly reference during the lateral exam or just generally...

Anyone know what the justification for the allowable stress increase of 12.4.3.3 is for load combinations with overstrength under ASD? Seems silly to have gone to so much trouble to get LRFD and ASD balanced and then give ASD a bonus when using overstrength.

Some shameless self-promotion here but I wanted to make sure people studying for the SE lateral portion of the exam don't miss these. Andy (SEHQ on here) and I worked up some flowcharts for Chapter 11 and 12 of ASCE 7. These flowcharts will hopefully be invaluable for the SE exam as the seismic...

Looking over the special concrete shear wall design in chapter 21 of ACI I'm wondering about the minimum rebar ratios prescribed by 21.9.2.1 when the shearwall has flanges. The definitions of ρl and ρt in chapter 1 refer to gross concrete area perpendicular to the reinforcement. For the gross...

So, now that another 16 hour structural exam is out of the way, how do you feel? (Please remember not to post exam questions, NCEES watches and all that!) Personally, I think it went okay. I only took lateral (passed vertical last year) but overall it was pretty much what I expected. I did...

So, in continuing my last minute cramming totally thought out review for the exam next weekend I decided to run through the afternoon problems of the lateral section. Problem 801 has us design a masonry wall using the ASD combinations from the 2006 IBC. If you follow through that then you get...

So, final prep for the exam and I'm going through all my examples making lists of which ones to refer to for which topic. I've discovered that none of my references have a concrete diaphragm design example. This problem caused me to fail my first vertical attempt because I didn't have my...

Less than a month out, how do you guys feel about this coming exam? As I'm taking lateral and work in a non-seismically active area I've been going nuts studying as much seismic design examples and references as I can. I've just about wrapped up wind design, wood, and steel to a comfortable...

So, I have the lateral coming up in April. Digging around the office I have the 2005 supplement No. 1 version of AISC 341-05. The required documents list for 2014 lists that the second printing (2006) or the third printing (2008) are the standards used. Do I really need to buy the new version...

Figured I'd put these out there for those studying for the SE (and in general) as I'm not sure how many people are aware they're on the net for free: www.aisc.org/searchtaxonomy/conproceedings.aspx?id=4424 These are the conference proceedings from North American Steel Construction Conference...

ACI 530 section 3.3.5.4 states that the design of masonry walls can be done using that section if Puf/Ag < 0.20f'm (or 0.05f'm). Great! But what do we do if we can't meet this? Do we desugn it like a column and use strain compatibility with the cracked section?

In my previous attempt to pass the Structural Vertical exam I know likely missed at least two multiple choice questions because I apparently was expected to have some reference tables of multispan and AASHTO load tables, which I did not have and don't even know where to find. Does anyone know...

So, tomorrow and Saturday are the big days. Everyone ready? I could probably use another month of working out problems but I don't think it would make or break me come tomorrow. I guess I'm about as ready as I'll ever be. As long as I can get those essay portions done. How is everyone bringing...

So, I'm creating this topic for any and all engineers taking the SE exam this weekend to discuss anything and everything they want. Some good things I think we could all use is any special references or documents we feel are good to have, any examples that we feel cover a topic really well, and...