Discover the meticulous process of analyzing structural drawings, with a focus on the influence line method used by engineers. Obtain an in-depth understanding of engineering calculations and their significance in determining sizes of plates, welding instructions, and metal materials.
Key Insights
- The blueprint, S604, Sections and Details, includes influence line drawings, a method used by structural engineers to simplify the engineering process and perform calculations based on these lines.
- These drawings contain callouts for steel, references to different elevations and details, and instructions for welding. The callouts give details about the actual steel members and details at the footing.
- The drawings also include work points that serve as the basis for the engineering calculations, influencing factors such as the sizes of the plates, the welding instructions, and the sizes of the metal materials used.
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Let's review the last of our structural drawings, sheet S604, Sections and Details. Let's zoom in here. These three drawings, the canopy roof plan and the two canopy elevations, are influence line drawings.
The influence line simplifies the engineering so the calculations are done using these influence lines, and this is a method that structural engineers use to analyze the drawing. You can see references to different elevations and details that are on this page and on page S603. There are notes here.
There are callouts for the steel here. On this image, we see the callout for the steel. We see that there's a cantilever up here, a cantilever down here.
There's steel here, callouts for the actual steel members, and reference to the detail at the footing down here. On this influence line drawing, similar kind of information, referencing this detail and references this detail. When I look at the canopy pier detail over here, you can again see the roof.
You can see the rebar that's coming up. You can see callouts for the sizes. 6 number 6 is vertical with standard hooks.
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The spacing for the rebar here. Here's the column coming up. Here's the plate.
There's welding instructions that are up here. If I pan down, I'm going to have to zoom back a little bit. Detail at canopy, welding instructions.
Here's the cap plate. There's a plate here. Again, welding instructions and notes.
Right up here, you see that it's saying, see image 7 on sheet 604 for additional information. The information for welding instructions is provided in this image. Another detail, the plate, it's a half-inch plate.
Here's the work point, and from this point, the engineering calculations are accomplished. You're seeing spacing, a 2-inch maximum, from the bottom here to the top here. There are detail notes.
The canopy pier detail is where it's flush with the roof. We have a bottom plate. We have some welding instructions.
Spacing. Again, the plate's here. So a plate here.
A plate here. Embedded in the concrete. Spacing of the rebar.
And we also have the standard hooks. It's very nice to see how the engineer analyzes their work. And so again, it works around work points.
They use the influence line method of analysis. Then they start detailing things out. So it's the results of the engineering calculations that drive things such as the size of the plates, the welding instructions, and the sizes of the metal material that's being used.
Very interesting drawing. Please feel free to spend some more time with it. And it's been my pleasure working with you on our structural drawings.