Author Archives : W. Andrew Fennell, P.E., CPEng, SECB

About the author ⁄ W. Andrew Fennell, P.E., CPEng, SECB

W. Andrew Fennell, P.E., CPEng, SECB (andy.sclabs@earthlink.net), is a Principal Engineer at Scientific Construction Laboratories, Inc., in Lafayette, California.

Testing Tension-Only Steel Anchor Rods Embedded in Reinforced Concrete Slabs

Starting in 2008, members of the project team, along with others, performed tests to show that the American Concrete Institute (ACI) 318-11 Appendix D concrete shear capacities for steel anchor bolts with small edge distances connected to wood sill plates were extremely low compared to actual tested values. …

Mar, 2014 By W. Andrew Fennell, P.E., CPEng, SECB, Gary L. Mochizuki, P.E., S.E., LEED AP, Kevin S. Moore, P.E., S.E., SECB, Steven E. Pryor, P.E., S.E. and Geoffrey A. Laurin In Articles, Structural Testing Comments 0

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