03-11-2013, 08:22 PM
Hello Friends:
I'm Francisco Chavez, and I live in Chile (a thin but long country located in Southamerica). I'm a structural engineer from the USACH (Universidad de Santiago de Chile / University of Santiago de Chile). I work in steel members and connection design (base plates, steel structures) and concrete structures like foundations, retainings walls and something like that.
In my country we use our "NCH" codes (codes for loading wind, snow, and other kinds of loads. Some of them based on the ASCE code -like the wind load-). For concrete desing we use the ACI-318 code with some special recomendations for seismic design (because my country have a permanent quake hazard).
Best regards to all of you dudes...this forum is great!
Cheers,
Francisco Chavez
I'm Francisco Chavez, and I live in Chile (a thin but long country located in Southamerica). I'm a structural engineer from the USACH (Universidad de Santiago de Chile / University of Santiago de Chile). I work in steel members and connection design (base plates, steel structures) and concrete structures like foundations, retainings walls and something like that.
In my country we use our "NCH" codes (codes for loading wind, snow, and other kinds of loads. Some of them based on the ASCE code -like the wind load-). For concrete desing we use the ACI-318 code with some special recomendations for seismic design (because my country have a permanent quake hazard).
Best regards to all of you dudes...this forum is great!
Cheers,
Francisco Chavez