Edmond E.

Jagger
122 Birmingham Avenue, # 1,
Norfolk, Virginia 23505
281-739-8011(cell)
OBJECTIVE
A position that will allow me to continue developing my skills as a structural e
ngineer.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
NAVFAC, CONTRACTED THROUGH ADVANTECH GS ENTERPRISES
Norfolk, Virginia 2009-2010
Part of the Navy responsible for construction and renovation of buildings.
Structural Engineer - Performed design of new and analysis of existing structure
s for building loading per UFC criteria at the Naval Base in Norfolk, Virginia.
Position duties - review of the plans and specs for several projects located at
Naval Station Norfolk and the Navy Brig project at NSA Northwest in Chesapeake,
Virginia. Review of all drawing submittals and calculation submittals for the bu
ildings and foundations for the Navy Brig project. Review included making sure t
hat design met the requirements of the applicable UFCs, IBC, and ATFP requiremen
ts, checking for use of correct design strengths and procedures for the design o
f all structural members and foundations. Also checked for consistency and agree
ment of concrete yield, concrete modulus, yield strength of reinforcement and si
milar design parameters between each of the various contractors and their submit
tals of drawings and calculations. Made sure that the foundation drawings met th
e requirements for minimum grade beam depths, maximum bearing pressure of the so
ils, etc. from the geotechnical report and soil testing done by the geotechnical
engineers at NAVFAC.
Designed the building structure and foundations for the SCIF additions to the ex
isting hangar buildings at Chambers Field. Also designed a "most cost effective"
structural system (braced frames with light gage secondary framing) in terms of
cost of materials and labor required at the jobsite. Also created structural dr
awings using AutoCAD Architectural Desktop. AutoCAD drawings included building c
olumns, rafters, foundations, rebar, and other structural components.
Design project at Chambers Field included consulting the NAVFAC geotechnical eng
ineering department on the foundation design. Due to the poor bearing capacity o
f the soil (fill material, etc.) and the fact that the water table is very near
the surface, the geotechnical engineering department at NAVFAC was consulted to
do part of the foundation design and specify requirements for a pier supported f
oundation. Also, do the nature of sensitive electronic equipment in the building
s at Chambers Field, it was agreed to that pier holes would be pre-augered to 40
' depth.
Worked with mechanical engineers and electrical engineers at NAVFAC to make sure
that the structures designed met the requirements of the ASME Boiler and Pressu
re Vessel code, and also the requirements of the latest NESC and NFPA.
Reviewed an outside engineering firms calculations for a foundation design here
at Naval Station Norfolk, and found instances where the reinforcement (rebar) sp
ecified by the engineer did not meet the minimum reinforcement requirements requ
ired by ACI 318-02. Worked with the construction supervisor at the jobsite to ma
ke sure that the reinforcement used was increased in the areas requiring more re
inforcement when the grade beams were poured.
Codes Used: AISC 9th Edition ASD/13th Edition LRFD for steel shape (carbon and s
tainless steel I-beam, HSS, Single Angle) strong axis bending, weak axis bending
, axial tension and compression member analysis. ASCE 7-02 and IBC 2003 for wind
loading and seismic analysis for component and structural system analysis and d
esign. Analysis and design of concrete slabs and grade beams for ACI 318-02 (reb
ar development and cover in one way and two way slabs). Seismic analysis and des
ign per ASCE 31-03 and ASCE 41-06. Welds per AWS and AISC 9th Edition.
FLEXIBLE LIFELINE SYSTEMS (Formerly know as Seaflex, Inc.),
Houston, Texas 2008
Manufacturer of fall protection equipment for all applications as well as select
products for the oil industry.
Structural Engineer - Performed design and analysis of existing structures for a
ddition of fall protection loads, and designed reinforcement of existing structu
res to carry these loads. Also, developed criteria for certification of an exist
ing drilling mast for API certification. Also designed steel billboard structure
s in the New Orleans area for both wind and fall protection loads.
Position duties - sized lanyards for fall protection applications on buildings,
as well as estimating the amount of steel and tie backs to be installed on the r
oof of buildings for fall protection. Fall protection was used both for building
maintenance purposes and window washing on the exterior of office buildings and
manufacturing facilities.
Also designed a light gage billboard structure with tube columns to be used for
billboards in the New Orleans area. Lastly, designed and submitted a total desig
n for an oil drilling mast to be installed on the back of a truck (portable dril
ling mast) to the American Petroleum Institute to become an approved mast fabric
ator. The design process included sizing members of the truck, the mast, and the
construction crane for the forces involved in the transport, lifting, and erect
ion of the mast at the jobsite.
Testing and quality control - several of the lanyard designs and other fall prot
ection equipment designs required field testing in addition to meeting the IWCA
fall protection load requirements. This involved setting up a "model" or mock up
of the equipment at the jobsite, and dropping various weights from structures,
simulating a free fall condition, with the lanyards set to arrest the system aft
er experiencing a free fall of a certain distance, and measuring the free fall f
orce at arrest using strain gages attached to the lanyards. This gave an approxi
mate maximum force produced by a 225lb person falling from the structure. The fo
rces were obtained and the damage or deformations of the supporting structural m
embers were obtained in order to verify the adequacy of the design. In this way
the adequacy of various light gage and tube structural members could be determin
ed for either free fall conditions or wind borne debris.
Site work and field modification - lanyard and fall arrest designs for supportin
g people working atop transit trains at the New Jersey Transit Authority Subway
terminals in Newark, New Jersey required analyzing existing plans and specificat
ions of the transit terminals to install the fall arrest systems above and on to
p of subway trains, taking into consideration existing interferences and minimiz
ing the fall arrest distances so that workers who fell would not strike existing
platforms, trains on adjacent tracks, etc. (The fall arrest system had to be in
stalled without interrupting the service of the trains already in operation). Th
is required extensive coordination with the transit authority as well as careful
review of the existing terminal drawings.
Site conditions also dictated design parameters that had to be used for fall pro
tection over aircraft at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. For e
xample, there were clearance requirements over the aircraft that had to be met t
hat also dictated minimum span requirements of the structure workers were suspen
ded from over the top of the aircraft. Also, the structural connections of the l
anyards had to be of non-steel metal alloy with non-bolted (rivet type) connecti
ons.
Designed lanyards on the side of rail lines and subway lines for to support trai
n and subway train workers. Designed fall protection for the New Jersey Transit
Authority in Newark, New Jersey. Further, lanyards were designed with a foundati
on (base) made of a reinforced concrete cylinder that used the minimum cohesion
values at the soil/concrete cylinder interface to resist torsional forces and be
aring on the base to resist axial bearing forces.
Did a design and analysis of a drilling mast from existing SOLIDWORKS output to
be mounted on the back of a truck and used for oil drilling in non-coastal Texas
. Did all the design, analysis, and documentation by hand to submit to the Ameri
can Petroleum Institute to become an API certified mast manufacturer.
Codes Used: AISC 9th Edition ASD/13th Edition LRFD for steel shape (carbon and s
tainless steel I-beam, HSS, Single Angle) strong axis bending, weak axis bending
, axial tension and compression member analysis. Design an analysis also include
d connection design for components and systems. Used the commentary in back for
single angle bending analysis and design (Q factor, principle axis, etc.). ASCE
7-02 and IBC 2003 for wind loading and seismic analysis for component and struct
ural system analysis and design. ACI 318-02 for concrete slab analysis and desig
n. Also used ACI 318-02 and commentary for drilled pier bearing and soil cohesio
n analysis and design. Pier design used for single post lanyard design and analy
sis. Welds per AWS and AISC 9th Edition.
CHART ENERGY AND CHEMICALS, The Woodlands, Texas 2006-2008
Company that designs natural gas processing plants, as well as manufacturing ass
ociated cold boxes and heat exchangers.
Structural Engineer - Performed structural design and analysis of cold box struc
tures used to house natural gas processing equipment. Designed natural gas proce
ssing structures and platforms. Did pipe support design for pipe supports on bot
h the interior and exterior of cold boxes using STAAD PRO 2005. Did both carbon
steel and stainless steel pipe support design using angles, HSS, I-beam, and pip
e sections (all modeled with STAAD PRO 2005). Utilized both the AISC 9th edition
design criteria as well as the design criteria for angles listed in the specifi
cation for allowable stress design of single angle sections in the back of the A
ISC 9th edition (geometric axis, principal axis, combined stresses). STAAD PRO s
tructural models for cold boxes would include hundreds of structural members (be
ams, columns, and braces) designed per the load combinations of ASCE-7 and IBC 2
003.
Also modeled the skin plates in STAAD covering the outside of the cold boxes as
equivalent discrete brace members (varied depending upon the panel aspect ratio)
for resisting lateral (horizontal) forces on the outside of the cold boxes. Bui
lt the STAAD PRO model input files using both the text editor and graphical user
interface features of STAAD PRO 2005. Some STAAD PRO models were built using ex
isting AutoCAD structural drawings to obtain the cold box geometry for STAAD PRO
input. I briefly pursued creating a STAAD PRO 2005 model directly from an exist
ing AutoCAD file (and vice versa), which is a feature that Bentley Systems claim
ed would work. However, on complex structural models, the end conditions of the
members would come out incorrect or missing. So the only way to get a "correct"
model was to create both the AutoCAD files and STAAD PRO 2005 files separately.
Also incorporated the requirements of the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code
in the design and analysis of the pipe supports (i.e. used lower yields for vari
ous grades/alloys of steel listed in the ASME Code). Piping inside the cold boxe
s was primarily designed with stainless steel, and modeled in STAAD PRO 2005. Ha
d to manually change the "k" values in cases where the members were not pin ende
d (k greater than 1.0) Also had to manually modify standard STAAD input for diff
erent steel yields and the requirements for angles in the AISC 9th Edition comme
ntary. Typically used the pipers Caesar force output as load input into STAAD PR
O 2005 (for the structural models using HSS, pipe, angle, and hot rolled beams).
Cold box models would normally include both carbon steel and stainless steel me
mbers. The largest cold boxes modeled in STAAD PRO 2005 were Bechtel cold boxes,
of maximum height of approximately 190', 90' long,, and 60' wide (for a single
cold box). Again, I modeled the entire cold box in STAAD PRO 2005 per the requir
ements of AISC 9th edition and the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code.
Position duties - structural design of all structural steel used to support stru
ctures housing natural gas processing equipment. This included designing structu
res for lifting and erection cases of the structures, sizing the cranes and dete
rmining the number of lift points and number of lifting lug locations required t
o pick up cold box structures and place them on the deck of ships or barges. Als
o, included checking the design cases for roll and pitch of the cold box due to
forces induced by ocean wave action on the ships and barges. All these forces an
d load combinations were used as load inputs in creating STAAD PRO 2005 models t
o check the adequacy of the structural under these load conditions.
Specifically, the cold box structural analysis for shipping from the Port in New
Iberia, Louisiana, had to account for lifting of the cold box structure onto th
e deck of one or more barges, analyzing the load for critical loads due to the l
ift angles and lifting lug locations on the structure. In addition, the transpor
tation case had to be analyzed for the load combinations due to pitch, roll, hor
izontal accelerations to current and wave movement, surface friction on the deck
, as well as these load affects taking into consideration the location of the ce
nter of gravity of the structure.
This analysis also included having to take the plans or footprint of an existing
chemical plant operation and determining how to install natural gas processing
equipment, structures, skids, and pipe racks inside an existing plant. This requ
ired coordination with several people inside the plant both at the time of insta
llation of the equipment and at the time of plant commissioning or start-up of t
he new structures and processing equipment.
I created and assembled a standard pipe support manual that could be used by pip
ers and designers. The manual would allow the designers to pick a pipe support f
rom a table using maximum vertical and horizontal spans/eccentricities and maxim
um horizontal and vertical pipe support forces. The pipe support models were don
e in STAAD PRO 2005, and also required manually changing the steel yields and k
values, where the k values were greater than 1.0 (for non pin ended members). Th
e pipe support manual was made available to designers for horizontal and vertica
l eccentricities up to approximately 6 feet. The manual was checked for both lim
iting stress and deflection criteria, and included approximately 50 different su
pport configurations, for both stainless steel and carbon steel members.
The welds of the pipe support members were sized either by using a stand alone w
eld program to determine weld properties and stresses or by hand using the metho
ds used by Blodgett and published by Lincoln Electric Company. Welds were also d
esigned and detailed to meet AWS requirements.
Codes Used: AISC 9th Edition ASD/13th Edition LRFD for steel shape analysis. Use
d the commentary in back for single angle bending analysis and design. Extensive
use of AISC 9th Edition and Staad Pro for modeling and design of cold box pipe
supports using I-beam, HSS, angle and pipe in various combinations. IBC 2003, IB
C 2000, ASCE 7-02, ASCE 7-95, UBC 1997 and UBC 1994, and California State Buildi
ng Code used for wind load determination as well as seismic force determination
for components and systems. Components and systems included platforms for vessel
s and equipment inside and outside of cold boxes used in natural gas liquificati
on. Also performed seismic and wind design and analysis on pump and rotating equ
ipment skid platforms. Used ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel provisions for the d
esign and analysis of components and structures. Also used the Architectural Com
ponents provisions of Section 9.6 of ASCE 7 to determine vessel and equipment su
pport connection and anchorage forces. Welds per AWS, AISC 9th Edition, and the
procedures used by Blodgett in Lincoln Electric Company.
TYSON FOODS INC, Fayetteville and Springdale, Arkansas 2005-2006
Leading producer of processed meats. Structural design of processing facilities
at the corporate offices.
Structural Engineer - Design and analysis of structural platforms and supports f
or vessels, piping, machinery, and roof supported structures. Design and analysi
s of structural systems and foundations in operating processing plants.
Pipe support design was primarily designing pipe support stands/frames attached
to the roof of existing processing plants, where the primarily coolant was liqui
d ammonia. Design of the pipe support stands was for both seismic and wind force
s. Design of the pipe support members and frames was either done by hand or with
VisioAnalysis software. In the western United States, the seismic forces someti
mes controlled the pipe stand designs. For these pipe supports, the pipe support
s had to be designed for an importance factor I = 1.5 (for occupancy category IV
, SUG III), since the pipes were carrying liquid ammonia, which posed the potent
ial for a hazardous release.
Position duties - included existing plant modification for the addition of crane
s in existing plant roof systems, roof modification and reinforcement for additi
on of scrubbers, evaporators and oven stacks to be supported on the roof of thes
e existing plant buildings. Several of the projects included not only design of
the structural members required for the supports but also pricing of this steel
and the pricing of reinforcing steel that had to be added to the roofs. Most str
uctural analysis was done by hand, but some platform structures were modeled in
Visio Analysis.
Included the repair and renovation of damaged structural members in operating pr
ocessing plants to protect the safety and welfare of team members working in the
plants, mostly along or adjacent to production lines. From a short list of repa
ir alternatives, several bidders would be contacted as to assess their interest
and qualifications to bid on the structural repairs. From RFP's received from th
e bidders, one bidder would be chosen to do the work based on several criteria s
uch as overall cost, time constraints, scope of the fix and how well it met the
required objectives, and how long the fix would extend the useful life of the fa
cility, etc.
Site visits and field modifications - not only were field visits required for de
sign and support of roof equipment described above, but field visits were also n
ecessary for determining the sizing and location of process piping, refrigeratio
n piping, and pipe supports for liquid ammonia lines that had to be added to the
roof of existing plant buildings. Also, site visits were necessary to determine
the extent of structural damage and field modifications required to repair truc
k scales at existing feedmills and steel damage to heavy structural steel suppor
ting plant bins, conveyors, entryway columns, etc. Steel addition required both
coverplating of existing steel and full structural replacement of columns, beams
, etc
One project required that one beam of an existing steel platform be moved due to
an interference the beam created with some new structural work that had to be s
upported on the top of the existing platform. I had devised a way to jack up the
beams on the platform and splice the beam in question, reconnecting it to exist
ing beams that could remain in place, rather than having to take entire beam run
s down. This allowed the platform to be modified more quickly and was safer than
trying to remove existing beam runs, and also required the purchase of less lin
ear footage of new beam material.
Codes Used: AISC 9th Edition ASD primarily for steel shape and platform analysis
. Used AISC 9th Edition Code and Commentary for the design and analysis of steel
frames for use in platforms. Frame design included member design for panel web
shear as well as connection design for tension field action. Used a series of ho
rizontal rigid frames (i.e. portal frames) to act as a floor system for an eleva
ted floor system in a wastewater treatment plant. ACI 318-02 for slabs and house
keeping pads. Used IBC 2003 and ASCE 7-02 to analyze and design platforms, frame
s, and building structures at various processing plants. Used AISI for steel and
concrete building purlin design. Performed snow buildup design and analysis usi
ng National Building Code of Canada for Canadian processing plants. Also analyze
d existing wooden structures and platforms using the NDS wood design code.
AMERICAN BUILDINGS COMPANY, Columbus, Georgia 2003-2005
Manufacturer of Steel Buildings and Components
Design Engineer - Designed steel buildings of all complexity levels for public a
nd private use. Design of factory, warehouse and commercial buildings in the U.S
., Mexico, and Canada. Building systems included jib crane, bridge crane, and ga
ntry crane systems. Designed buildings for wind, snow, and seismic loadings base
d on current building code requirements, including National Building Code of Can
ada. Worked on estimates and designs for primary steel framing on all types of s
tructures.
Also performed design of building structures on the decks of boats and barges, a
pplying the loads to the structure due to pitch, roll, and horizontal accelerati
ons due to the wave and current action in the ocean, specifically in the Gulf of
Mexico. Also, designed the steel framing covering the sides of a dry dock struc
ture in Biloxi, Mississippi for the wind loads required by code for a structure
of height greater than 60 feet above grade. One of the building structures desig
ned to sit atop the deck of a barge required the building covering resist penetr
ation from machine gun fire. Therefore, the entire exterior of the steel structu
re had to be covered in 1/4 thick steel plating. Some structures on board vessel
s had imposed load restrictions so as to not exceed the maximum draft allowed on
the structures when fully loaded.
Position duties - design of the primary and secondary steel in metal buildings s
ystems of varying complexity. Design also included estimating of the primary and
secondary steel (light gage, hot rolled and plate girders) for buildings of var
ying complexity.
Estimating included sizing the steel and quantities of steel for large manufactu
ring and processing facilities such as sugar beet processing plants, with heavy
structural columns and girts with eave heights of approximately 50' to 150'. Est
imating also for the cost of coverplating columns on building additions. Field m
odification of buildings also included adding additional reinforcement to increa
se the wind loading capacity of buildings in the Tulsa, Oklahoma area up to a mi
nimum interior zone wind pressure of 20 psf, to be used as outlying hangar build
ings. Estimating also included the design of rigid frames up to approximately 25
0' clear span, and also estimating for long bay (bar joist) roof systems. Many b
uildings also required the estimating of angle bracing or tube steel in the wall
s of buildings due to large wind, crane, or seismic horizontal loads.
Some project required the estimation of material and cost to install poured conc
rete mezzanine floor systems with steel decking in steel buildings or estimating
bar joist roof systems for buildings.
Site visits and field modification - One project required a job site inspection
of the foundation of a manufacturing building on Pinson Valley Road in northeast
Birmingham, Alabama, to make sure the foundation was poured with adequate quali
ty control and the anchor bolts were set properly at the project site. The inter
ior (pipe) columns of the rigid frames were to be pin ended members, to be field
modified to support column mounted jib cranes. Anchor bolts had to be set along
a line parallel to the face of the hot rolled cees attached to the pipe columns
to avoid interferences at the base plate level, and the baseplates designed for
additional bending. Then the interior columns of the buildings had to be field
modified for the addition of jib columns (the interior building columns were 10"
pipe columns). In order to increase the capacity of the columns to allow for at
tachment and support of the jib cranes, the pipe columns were coverplated with h
ot rolled cees with the lips of the cee stitch welded to the pipe columns, 180 d
egrees apart. The columns were slotted intermittently near the length of the wel
ds before addition of the cees. This was to allow for expansion and contraction
of the pipe column in the area of the welds to avoid stresses that would "crack:
" or "blow out" the pipe columns due to the heating of closed members.
Codes Used: AISC 9th Edition ASD, AISI Cold Form Design Code for steel purlin an
d girt design and analysis, BOCA 1993, UBC 1997, UBC 1994, MBMA 1986, IBC 2000,
ASCE 7-95, ASCE 7-88, for building system and component design and analysis for
wind, snow, and seismic forces. Also used National Building Code of Canada, New
York State Building Code, Massachusetts 6th Edition, North Carolina State Buildi
ng Code, Wisconsin 1992, Connecticut State Building Code, Bahamas Building Code,
welds per AWS and AISC 9th Edition.
VALMONT INDUSTRIES, Valley, Nebraska 2001-2002
Leading manufacturer of utility structures for the electrical industry. Manufact
urer of h-frame and single pole electrical tower structures.
Project Engineer - Designed utility structures, including single pole towers and
h-frame utility towers using company developed structural analysis programs. De
signed the poles for forces transferred from the wires and arms/vangs to the pol
es. Used Valmont's proprietary pole and h-frame modeling software called Impax t
o develop the structural models. Worked on quotations of various utility structu
res in all regions of the U.S. Instrumental in contacting customers to qualify s
cope of work and other quote requirements.
Position duties - Design of the structural steel and connections used in the des
ign of single pole and h-frame utility towers, arms, and connection design. Also
included estimating of the steel used both in the poles and the arms attached t
o the poles. Structural models were created using the load combinations in the N
ESC (wind on wires, ice on wires, etc.). The structures were analyzed using IMPA
X structural modeling software for both monopole and H-frame structures. Also ha
d to insure that the structures designed met both minimum standoff distances and
shielding requirements.
Field inspection - involved in the field inspection of Valmont's monopole basepl
ates, looking for toe cracking in the baseplates of poles that had been in the f
ield in excess of 5 years, and gathering data to hopefully determine the cause o
f toe cracking on the pole with baseplates of various sizes and thicknesses. Fie
ld inspection involved sketching out the configuration, length, and location of
cracks in the baseplates, the pole's age and thickness of the baseplates. Causes
of the baseplate cracking were narrowed down to two possibilities. One was a ch
ange in the chemical composition or temperature of the galvanizing bath the pole
s were placed in. The other possibility was residual stresses left in the basepl
ates due to uneven heating and heat dissipation at the baseplate while being wel
ded to the base of the poles. Baseplates would range in thickness from 2" to 18"
thick, with some European baseplates being over 2 feet thick. Because the same
cracks were found in poles across many different decades with many different che
mical compositions, chemical composition of the galvanizing bath was eliminated
as a cause of the cracking.
Radiographic testing of the welds determined that the welds themselves were of g
ood quality and structural adequacy of the weld was not involved in the toe crac
king issue after performing radiographic testing on several dozen pole bases. Re
sults of the radiographic testing were sent to our company office to analyze. It
appeared to us that residual stresses in the baseplates were causing the proble
m. To avoid and relieve residual stresses due to uneven heating and heat transfe
r, the baseplates themselves would be preheated in addition to the pole base bef
ore welding. Then the baseplates themselves would be subjected to a vibratory "s
haking" process to help remove any residual stresses after welding. Another solu
tion to the problem which I proposed was electroplating the base of the poles, b
ut this idea was rejected due to the large cost of the electricity (not to menti
on the time involved) to electroplate the pole bases.
Codes Used: AISC 9th Edition ASD, IBC 2003, ASCE 7-95, UBC 1997, National Electr
ic Safety Code, welds per AWS and AISC 9th Edition
NCI BUILDINGS SYSTEMS, Houston, Texas 1997-2000
Manufacturer of Steel Buildings and Components
Design Engineer - Designed steel buildings of all complexity levels for public a
nd private use. Used AutoSteel/Synercom frame design software and CFS cold form
section design software to model structures and apply various forces.
Position duties - design of primary and secondary steel building systems. Calcul
ation of factored design loads to be provided to the foundation design engineers
for the foundation designs of steel buildings. Design and analysis of component
s used in steel buildings, such as masonry lintels, fixed based columns, portal
frames, relocation of bracing systems in existing structures. Reinforcement of e
xisting structures for building additions, bridge cranes, jib cranes, roof top u
nits, etc. Plate girder moment resisting frames of various heights and spans als
o had to be analyzed due to the affects of mezzanine loads, roof top units, etc.
Field modification of existing structures - involved in the field inspection of
the foundation for the University of Arkansas Razorback football team stadium co
ver (steel building) of approximately 228' clear span and 45' eave height. Did t
he structural design of the entire building including catwalk structures to supp
ort television equipment and a running track suspended at the perimeter of the b
uilding. Was involved in the decision along with the sealing (structural) engine
er, to weld misaligned anchor bolts to the baseplates of the building columns.
Had to design a fully welded connection at the ridge of a building in Kansas, cu
tting the bottom ears off the bolting plates. The reason for the modification wa
s that under (theoretical) maximum deflection, the bolting plate would interfere
with the top of a bridge crane trolley running from sidewall to sidewall of the
building, by approximately 1 to 1.5 inches. I had to coverplate the flanges of
the ridge beam and also coverplate a strip of the web adjacent to the bolting pl
ate, then weld all around to develop an adequate bolting connection after the bo
ttom "ears" of the bolting plate were cut off.
I also had to do analysis and design of building components to satisfy the requi
rements of many building departments for projects in California, particularly in
the Napa Valley, Los Angeles County, and Redding, California, to name a few loc
ations. One project required the analysis of eave struts (a wine cellar in the N
apa Valley) using CFS (cold formed section) software, to analyze the eave strut
as a combined member in axial and bending, for all the load combination requirem
ents in UBC 1997. In order to make the eave strut pass a stress check considerin
g the inside (bottom) leg of the strut unbraced, it had to be designed as a comb
ined member using a continuous 8" cee to tie the eave strut to a purlin 8 inches
uphill with bolts at 8 inches on center the entire length of the building on bo
th sidewalls. I had to do a similar analysis on building components for building
s in Redding, California, and for a freezer building with sandwich panel walls i
n Bakersfield (collectors and struts in the seismic force analysis) to satisfy t
he design requirements of city building officials.
The design of the steel framing had to meet geometric limitations for loading of
the structural steel into shipping containers, particularly in the port of Hous
ton. Worked with transportation companies such as Maersk as well as private cont
ractors to make sure that the steel would meet the shipping limitations due to s
hipping steel across the ocean in various shipping containers. This would routin
ely limit the steel frame member maximum length to approximately 38' depending o
n the web depth and geometry of the rigid frames.
Codes Used: AISC 9th Edition ASD, AISI Cold Form Design Code for steel purlin an
d girt design and analysis,
welds per AWS, AISC 9th Edition, and the procedures used by Blodgett in Lincoln
Electric Company, BOCA 1993, UBC 1997, UBC 1994, MBMA 1986, ASCE 7-95, ASCE 7-88
, for building system and component design and analysis for wind, snow, and seis
mic forces. Also used National Building Code of Canada, New York State Building
Code, Massachusetts 6th Edition, North Carolina State Building Code, Wisconsin 1
992, Connecticut State Building Code, Bahamas Building Code
US ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, REGION IV SUPERFUND OFFICE Atlanta, Georgia
1992 (as summer employee of COSTEP program)
Technical Report Writer and Engineer- helped write, proofread, and prepare remed
ial investigation reports for Region IV EPA Superfund hazardous waste sites. Rep
orts included site investigation findings and contaminant concentration review a
nd documentation. Report writing utilized knowledge of RCRA and CERCLA legislati
on.
EDUCATION
BS, Civil Engineering
University of Arkansas, May 1994