BLACK BOX SUPPORTED STRUCTURE

 

From: Bill Polhemus <bill@polhemus.cc>
To: seaint@seaint.org
Subject: MODELING: Accounting for a 'Black Box' Supported Structure

 

REPLY:

It is so nice about those weekend issues that so few people write

and that you can get some readable stuff then.

 

I read Bill's monologue with a puzzlement.

Not being a real building engineer, I imagine every building being an order of

magnitude heavier than its footing and peers.

 

If I am right, then you "account" for footings as an addition to a building, not the other way around.

Or is it a partially underground structure?

 

Sincerely, Gregory from Oz