Steel Stack Deflection When designing a stack should steel stack deflection be a concern? It’s a good question and one that comes up frequently, The design standards give some guidance, but the standards vary in how they handle steel stack deflection and there...
Stack Conical Transition Analysis Analysis of a conical transition isn’t as simply as looking at just the section properties along the cone. Cone-cylinder junctions are areas of high discontinuity stresses. They have unbalanced radial loads from the axial and...
Anchor Bolt Pretension There is nothing simple about recommending anchor bolt pretension, ask ten engineers and you could get eleven different recommendations. Meca has done all of the research in order to try to resolve this topic once and for all…at least...
Anchor Bolt Design MecaStack performs anchor bolt designs for tensile and shear loads, using some common codes. This hasn’t always been true, starting in v5534 some new standards were added and this article explains the technical details associated with these...
Too Close for Comfort How close can you space stacks? It’s a common question, and one that doesn’t have a simple answer. There are several factors that should be considered, and I’m going to go over those factors in this article. The Theory: When...
Navigating the Output Like a Boss There are many useful features within the output window that can save the designer time and energy. Here is a video to illustrate these features and how to navigate the calculation output. Watch...
