SBEDS which is an Excel-based software solution maintained by the USACE.
In a couple of places in the documentation, they references the manual
as stated in the SUBJECT line of my message.
However, this publication isn't available online, unless you're a U.S.
Gov't contractor actively working on government jobs. This is
problematic, since much of the methodology in SBEDS is contained therein.
For example in one place they reference "the ultimate moment capacity of
a reinforced concrete beam-column ... as defined by equations in Chapter
10 of UFC 3-340-01." I would seriously love to examine those equations
but cannot as far as I know, because, again, I'm not privy to this
information.
Has anyone run up against this or something like it, and how do you
LEGALLY get around this restriction? Strange that a program in the
public domain should be based on methodology that is literally a
"federal secret."
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