Episode 95 - Understanding D.G. #1

About this episode

The episode revisits AISC Design Guide #1, focusing on Base Plate Connections and includes a trivia segment.

In this episode, we test our knowledge of an AISC design document, Design Guide #1 - Base Plate Connections. This is the first DG we read as we entered the working world, and we think it's worthwhile to revisit it occasionally.Want to look at all the guides available? https://www.aisc.org/publications/design-guides/Join our structural trivia! A quick email mid-week will keep you sharp (FYI - Survey Monkey is often re-directed to the spam folder) Here or belowhttps://forms.gle/2JRqawfiGn1dWy3g9 Reach out to us:InstagramLinkedInEmail: info@theengineeringpodcast.com

People in this episode

Hosts: Zach, Max

Topics covered

• AISC design document
• Base Plate Connections
• structural engineering
• design guides
• trivia

Keywords

• AISC
• Design Guide #1
• Base Plate Connections
• structural trivia
• engineering

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: AISC

Books & works: Design Guide #1 - Base Plate Connections

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