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Serious question, why do engineers spec 1/4 plate when 3/16 would clearly hold?
I was on a job at a chemical plant in Baton Rouge last month and we had to weld 1/4 inch plate all day for a catwalk that's barely gonna see foot traffic. Has anyone else dealt with this kind of overkill from the design guys?
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hannahk1911d ago
Did the design guys actually math that out or just guess...
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lucashart11d ago
You know my uncle actually worked on a project like this a few years back with a small structural firm. He said they had a whole team running simulations for weeks and still ended up with a 15% margin of error because the ground conditions were different from the survey data. It's easy to assume they just "guessed" but even the best math needs real world adjustments. Honestly I bet someone on that project is looking at the result saying "well there goes our safety factor." You ever think about how much trust we put in those calculations?
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