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It’s shit. It doesn’t work how the sales people say it.

RAM, RISA and Etabs are the most common analysis platforms. Each has its own strengths and weaknesses.

But when talking to Revit they do okay in a one time forward pass.

But does anyone have a track record of going back and forth?

Ok this is petty, but does it bother anyone else that we never ever get put next to Saint Paul or San Francisco when listed alphabetically? We’re always sorted down to the T and not the A.

I know it’s petty but I just hate that shit.

So not an illness but does anyone else break out into song, sometimes just to yourself, when you hear a key phase from our younger days?

Let’s see if you’re mind songs these:

“Can’t touch this”

“She was a fast machine, she kept her motor clean”

“I like big butts”

“Standing in the rain, with his head hung low…”

“Risin’ up, back on the streets, took my time, took my chances”

We are 66 games in, which the second fewest in baseball but still it’s nice to check in on Toya.

The Cards are in the top 10 of all the MLB in the following offensive categories:

SOs (4)

HBP (3)

SH (5)

SF (8)

And the following Pitching Categories

W (8)

L (6)

W-L% (6)

SV (4)

Runs Against (10)

IBB (10)

Does that seem like a club that is there or learning.

Sports movies are often a great genre for story telling. There’s a satisfying victory (usually) at the end and some type of journey of development. Real heartbreak or loss before final triumph.

So what are your favorites for basketball, baseball, football, track, etc?

Here are my favorites by sport:

Basketball = Hoosiers.

Football = Little Giants.

Soccer = Victory

Baseball = The Sandlot

Boxing = Rocky

What else you got?

So there is a (now decades old) concept where you design a flat plate concrete structure where they put plastic balls in the middle a two way slab. Basically you can design a 16” slab that weighs as much as a 9” slab that has the strength of the 16” slab.

So has anyone here actually designed one, or is this one of those ‘cute in theory’ systems that never makes it past concept?

I’m a building structural that has to design a retaining wall at a private site. At the top side of the wall is a W-barrier as it’s near a T intersection.

So imagine you’re headed down a road between two buildings and come up to a T intersection. There’s a 6 inch curb, then barrier just behind the curb, then 5 ft of grass then the top of a 20 ft tall wall (with 8 ft security fence) on it.

What does AASHTO say I should include for horizontal load from the barrier? Or does it?