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I am experiencing local brick failure. I believe this could be fixed by adding a bigger plate and more anchors. Can I not add more than 4 anchors in a masonry design using the PROFIS system? See attached: Thanks!

Can I use a wedge HSA m16 anchor in sandstone?

Dear Sir/Madam, I have been speaking to your customer services team who have advised that I speak to you, please see query below. We are fitting out a site where your product has been used on the structural metal beams, we need to know if we can paint over the fire coating and once painted will the fire coating integrity remai...

In the attached calculation output for HUS-4 Anchors the value of psi M.N is different for tension and shear. As the formula is the same for both, I would expect the values to be the same. Please can you explain why they are different?

Hello, I came up the following issues while designing connection to RC column. I have connection to take vertical force (downward) of 100kN. If I provide the bottom edge distance say 5000mm the connection failed but if the same distance is changed into infinite then the connection works well (see attached sketch). Could you...

I have a site a bracket has been designed and installed with 6 anchors. I need to analyse this existing bracket and want to use profis is there some form of custom layout I can use?

I'm doing a structural design of a base plate holding a steel column supporting electrical equipment in a substation on a column pedestal. I'm using post-installed bolts, using a Hilti Hit-RE 500 V4 resin and HAS-U 8.8 bolts. The column pedestal is 800x800 which seem to be fine for 500x500mm base plate (200mm bolt edge distanc...

We have a programme to test the integrity of some resin anchors (Hilti HY150 resin and HAS rods) located inside a service tunnel. These were installed in around 1999 and we have some concerns around the integrity of the rods and the anchorage. What is the best method of NDT to check the condition of this system?

I have designed the attached image using HILTI but the error keeps coming up saying the selected anchor layout and plate shape is not allowed. please can you confirm why this is and advise how to get round this error? thanks

We have a tunnel inspection coming up on a Wastewater tunnel. The tunnel was built in 1999 and will be inspected after approx. 25 years in service. In addition to a normal tunnel inspection this sewage transfer tunnel has a 600mm dia. GRP pumping main running in the left-hand shoulder of the tunnel connected to the lining vi...