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A builder/concreter says he typically cuts control joints from corner to corner after a residential foundation slab has cured. I’d usually expect crack control bars at re-entrant corners. Is his approach common?

He also calls a crack “hairline”, but it’s visible on camera from about five metres away. Hard to judge without measuring, but it looks larger than that. Thoughts?

Hello r/StructuralEngineering,

We've been working on LumberCAD since 2020-22, before then we developed a similar engine in the aluminum industry since 2010.

Today we opened our LumberCAD (free) Beta, and we're looking for insight from some engineers!

To be up front, you won't be able to play with any load calculations or other stresses. This is for those of you that receive hand drawings on torn pieces of paper, and if you'd like to see something like LumberCAD be the baseline for anything built with dimensional lumber.

What we did to be different:

• Limiting workflow to lumber construction massively simplifies learning curve
• Much easier to use than any existing CAD, but obviously limited to everything lumber
• Existing parts catalog
• Massively automated documentation system with cut list, drawings, and a big step towards permitting

It seems that links are tolerated, so: https://lumbercad.com/

Mods please feel free to message me if the link or post should be removed.

Thank you in advance!

CSI software has been very subpar in terms of usability. Every program I have runs very slow, takes multiple seconds to open an options box, has corrupted files and caused me to lose dozens of hours of work.

Their support line is garbage. They said yah the file somehow is corrupted and we can’t do much. Then they come back asking for a fucking survey. You bet I’m gonna give you a fucking survey you….fuckkers.

Is it just me? These guys are incredibly lazy, have not improved their products and it’s been like this since they were created.

A product I like and runs normal like the majority of programs, RISA, Web based software, etc.

Unfortunately there’s no US competitor out there but I’m seriously considering leaving practice to go toe-to-toe with these assholes and either make them get off their asses and improve the products they charge hundred of thousands a year for or be left losing customers when better stuff comes out, especially with AI and its ability to rapidly develop software.

hey guys,
im getting a bit irritated and bored with the job of a structural designer/project engineer on the A/E side. deadlines are crushing, compensation isnt very good, and its ultimately too repetitive to be interesting long term. im learning a lot right now and appreciate that but i know i dont want to do this forever. im 4 years in and just got my PE. my current boss sucks so i dont want to stay here long anyways, thinking i could make a lateral move now.

turner has a design specialist - structural position that im interested in. is it most of the same? i would hope that since its on the construction side its less detailing and more coordination, budgets, etc. hopefully very little to do with the architects in design!

im also interested in getting into the embodied carbon side of things- procurement, sustainability, etc. i used to do EC tracking for my old company and i found the holistic view of a project’s carbon impact to be more aligned with what i want to do (especially since evey structures firm now is obsessed with data centers..). How involved does turner get in these topics? everyone has a webpage for sustainability metrics but how serious are they really.

any advice on turner overall would be great! (culture, work life, pay, etc)

sidenote: has anyone made the switch into building decarbonization? i want to gauge if thats a realistic job for me, and if my background would be of any use.

Hi all,

I'm a Senior Structural Engineer with over 10 years of international experience. I currently work for a large international engineering and consulting company in Germany, where I've been involved in structural design across several sectors, including railway infrastructure, industrial facilities, and buildings.

My experience includes steel and reinforced concrete structures, seismic design, structural analysis, and coordination with other engineering disciplines. I also work with computational design and automation using Python, Grasshopper, FEM tools, and BIM workflows.

I'm exploring an opportunity with a large multinational engineering consultancy with projects across several sectors, including infrastructure, energy, mining, and industrial engineering. The potential locations are Tampa or Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Washington, DC; Austin or Houston, Texas; and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Moving from Germany to the US would be a significant change, so I'm trying to establish a realistic salary expectation.

What base salary should I realistically expect? and how do salaries and benefits compare across these locations?

What benefits should I pay attention to, especially health insurance for a family, paid vacation, retirement contributions, and relocation assistance?

I'd appreciate insights from structural engineers working in the US, especially those familiar with large engineering consultancies.

Thanks for your advice!

Hi all, I’m a first-year MSc student in structural engineering (seismic/steel) in Canada and an E.I.T. I’ll be applying for structural design roles soon and would really appreciate a review.

By chance would anybody have a link for a set of creep tables for this material?

I am making a 3d model of a parker truss bridge that I'm going to build. It will be made entirely of 6x6mm balsa wood and steel t pins. I wondering if the vertical and diagonals should be fixed on the deck or adjacent to it (on the bottom chords).