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You put in quite a bit of time studying for all that though. I'm sure it didn't come easy.

Crap the average for Lateral was 25%. That's pretty dismal.

Failed. The morning questions are more intimidating than the afternoon practical. lol. Did pretty good on the afternoon part.

I make about 85K base salary and pull in between 85K and 90K per year. I have 7 years bridge experience and am licensed.

McEngr: Are you suggesting you can get 30/40; guessing on the last 10 and do well on the afternoon practical ans still pass?

I definitely needed to do problems faster.

The big day is coming. I didn't get as much prep time in as I wanted b/c I had to switch jobs throughout September but I did take a mind-numbing review class. Doing practice problems throughout the week. Good LUCK everyone!

Ugh. I got laid off about three weeks ago and have done nothing but look for a job. The good news is it only took me 2 weeks to fund a new job. The bad news is studying for the SE has suffered a bit. I'm taking School of PE review class. I hope that and some of my own studying is enough.

Sounds to me an ME degree goes against the Canon of Ethics. That being said, if you apprentice with a CE and take the appropriate tests like everyone else I have no problem with it.

STAAD.

All I can tell you is this 'Notes on ACI' is pretty heavy duty.

Maybe I'm out of my league here. You can't use a punching shear formula for footings?

and section 10.14 of chap 6 of ACI Notes is no good?

Start at section 9.4.11.1.1 You may be able to modify this equation and do as little as 2 iterations. />http://www.pci.org/view_file.cfm?file=MNL-133-97_ch9_4.pdf

I looked for my notes and they might me at the office. I do believe if you can google the diagonal shear check in bulb tee design you can stop after one iteration.