Providence Hospital

Farid A. Chouery, P.E., S.E. (Project Engineer)

Design Calculations & Drawings For:

• Seismic and Vertical design for new residential and light commercial buildings.

• Seismic and Vertical design and retrofitting for existing structures.

Key Features & Benefits

• We provide you with a customized solution to your situation.

• We provide a cost effective solution within an overall system design.

• We obtain all necessary structural permits.

Articles For Your Review

• Slip Surface by Variation for a Smooth Wall (revision 12/2011 add sentence in blue) (Slip.pdf) 284 KB

• Coulomb Ka , Kp Static and Dynamic for Clay (revision 06/2007 pp 11,12 & 13 in blue, revision 08/2009 pp 6 equation 18 add + or - ) (KaKp.pdf) 247 KB

• Variational Method in Deriving K0 (revision 05/2007 pp 36 in blue revision 08/2008 update Table 1) (K0.pdf) 387 KB

• K0 Static and Dynamic for a Slanted Wall with a Ramp (revision 08/2008 add Table 3, revision 11/2009 pp15 in blue ) (K0ramp.pdf) 390 KB

• Exact and Numerical Solutions for Large Deflection on Elastic Non-Prismatic Beams (revision add more solutions 12/2011, add missing figures 10/2015) (Elastica.pdf) 314 KB

• Elastic Stresses in a Flexibly Restrained Soil Mass or Other (revision 07/2012 added more information) (LAGGING.pdf) 221 KB (lagging.xls) 60 KB

• Stresses and Surcharge Stresses due to Plane Loading on Skewed Footings (Surcharge.pdf) 255 KB (revision 10/13/2008 add photo), (verify.xls) 37 KB, (stress.xls) 553 KB, (surcharge.xls) 573 KB.

• Stresses Under Spread Footing Corners Due to Plane Loading on the Footing (corner.pdf) 182 KB, (stresscorner.xls) 325 KB

• Kp for Wall with Friction with Exact Slip Surface (revision 07/2007 in blue) (kp2.pdf) 135 KB, (kp2.xls) 43 KB

• Contact Shear (Contact.pdf) 297 KB

• General Solution for Elastic Buckling and Ultimate Buckling for a Non-Prismatic Beams (Buckling.pdf) 299 KB

• Exact and Numerical Solution for Large Deflection of Elastic Non-Prismatic Plates (Plates.pdf) 449KB

• Slope Stability Slip Surface Using Variational Methods (Revision 6/2023 added photos) (Slope.pdf) 719KB; on 6/6/2023 added Analysis 2 (Slope2.pdf) 943KB

• Determining Active and Passive Pressures for Cohesion and Cohesionless Soils Using Variation for a Smooth Wall (revision 08/1/2016 pp 34 typo equation 70) (Determining.pdf) 331KB

• “To every load or weight there is a unique deflection curve” Presenting: we live in a unique universe, (Law.pdf) (update 9/19/2020) 192KB

• The Arching of Beams (Arching.pdf) 2063KB (Article complete April 2020) (Add Example 1A Plastic Lagging 7/14/2020 please check deflection) (simple.xlsx) 2658 KB (fixed.xlsx) 2919 KB

• Adjacent Pile Soldier Piles (Adjacent.pdf) 286KB

• Angled Pin Pile Foundation Fix (Angled.pdf) 463KB

• Composite Earth Structure (Composite.pdf) 297KB