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To everyone taking the exam next Friday / Saturday, good luck!  I'll be taking the vertical portion for the 2nd time.  This time around I won't do both days at once which was brutal IMO.  I tried working on my weak points such as AASHTO (David Conner book and SERM) so let's see.  At the end of...

I had a question about the material in the Structural Engineering Reference Manual 8th edition. I am referring to example 4.29 on page 4-42. The work shown for sway mechanism and combined mechanisms doesn’t match the formulas used to get them: sway Mp = P1 x h / 4 and for combined sway it’s Mp =...

Hey guys, I am using the 8th edition of the SERM by Alan Williams and I had a question about something they mention on page 1-40 about development length in compression. So they give the actual ldc value which I understand but then they say that the actual development length ld is obtained by...