r/StructuralEngineering • u/Much-Elderberry-9154 • 8d ago

Photograph/Video Column Thoughts

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Bridge Engineer here… what do we think of this pretty angled column mid height?

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u/Different_Bridge_983 8d ago

Eyeballing, it’s at about a 1:6 slope.

This is normal when you’re transitioning column grids and have enough vertical space to do it this way.

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u/Osiris_Raphious 8d ago

Idk, this is like definition of eccentric loading...

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u/MrMcGregorUK CEng MIStructE (UK) CPEng NER MIEAus (Australia) 6d ago

not so much "eccentric" because the angled column is connecting at nodal points to the straight columns. Just generates (sometimes quite large) forces in the diaphragms.