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...
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...
Add Some Guy Wires When and why should I use guy wires on a stack? When a stack has a vortex shedding problem there can be many factors that determine which solutions are the best. Guy wires aren’t always the most conventional solution, but its always an option...
Slow Down I’ll bet “Slow Down” isn’t an expression you hear much in your business. I dream of a day when a customer tells me, “Slow down, we really don’t care when you finish your design.” I can’t get you more time on...
I Feel the Need, the Need for Speed In my humble opinion, the Movie Top Gun is one of the best movies of all time. One of the best parts is when Tom Cruise says “I feel the need, the need for speed”. It’s not just a great line, it also applies to...
Welcome to our Damping Pad When a vortex shedding problem exists on a stack, sometimes the most economical option is a damping pad. What is a damping pad? A damping pad is a preformed laminated fabric pad of a manufactured material composed of layers of tightly...
