https://structsuite.com/videos/how-structsuite-works 2026-10-30 https://structsuite.com/images/videos/how-structsuite-works.jpg Structural Calculation Package Step by Step — Full Worked Example (ASCE 7-22, NDS 2024, ACI 318-25) What goes into a structural calculation package for a permit? The design loads (dead, live, seismic and wind), a calculation for every member and foundation that carries them, each marked to match the drawings, and a cover sheet, printed in order behind a table of contents. This video builds one start to finish in StructSuite for a two-story residential addition in Seismic Design Category D: ten design modules, every input, code table selection and demand-capacity check on screen, then printed for submittal and shared as a live link a plan checker can open. Nothing is skipped and nothing is a highlight reel. https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/beamwise12202025-8683197-cd8e6.firebasestorage.app/o/tutorials%2Fhow-structsuite-works.mp4?alt=media 1907 2026-09-11T13:40:38-07:00 yes no StructSuite no https://structsuite.com/videos/simpson-strong-tie-hanger-selection 2026-10-30 https://structsuite.com/images/videos/simpson-strong-tie-hanger-selection.jpg Simpson Strong-Tie Hanger Selection for Wood Beams and Joists — Step by Step (NDS 2024) How do you pick a Simpson Strong-Tie hanger for a wood beam or joist? Take the member's governing ASD end reaction, filter hangers by supporting member, connection, hanger type and fastener, then check the reaction divided by CD against the hanger's allowable download, and its uplift. This video does it inside StructSuite's wood beam and floor joist design: StructSuite sends Simpson's Hanger Selector the governing ASD reaction, lists every hanger that fits, and checks the one you pick, all without leaving the calculation. https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/beamwise12202025-8683197-cd8e6.firebasestorage.app/o/tutorials%2Fsimpson-strong-tie-promo.mp4?alt=media 297 2026-10-28T13:00:00-07:00 yes no StructSuite no https://structsuite.com/videos/glulam-beam-design-example-cantilever-balcony-nds-2024 2026-10-11 https://structsuite.com/images/videos/glulam-beam-design-example-cantilever-balcony-nds-2024.jpg Glulam Beam Design Step by Step - Cantilever Balcony Example (NDS 2024) How do you design a glulam beam that cantilevers? You check it twice - because the cantilever flips the tension face, and a glulam is not equally strong both ways up. A 24F layup puts its premium tension laminations on the BOTTOM, so the top face earns only Fbx- = 1,450 psi against 2,400 psi sagging, and over the support that weaker face is the one in tension. This video designs one end to end by Allowable Stress Design per NDS 2024: a 5-1/8 x 13.5 24F-1.8E Douglas Fir glulam, 16 ft between a pin and a roller, cantilevering 6 ft past the wall to carry a balcony with a guardrail. Then the same beam is entered field by field in StructSuite and every number is checked against the hand calculation. https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/beamwise12202025-8683197-cd8e6.firebasestorage.app/o/tutorials%2Fguide-glulam-beam-design-example-cantilever-balcony-nds-2024.mp4?alt=media 2350 2026-09-20T19:16:02-07:00 yes no StructSuite no https://structsuite.com/videos/hip-rafter-design-example-sloped-roof-nds-2024 2026-10-11 https://structsuite.com/images/videos/hip-rafter-design-example-sloped-roof-nds-2024.jpg Hip Rafter Design Step by Step - How to Size a Hip Beam, Worked Example (NDS 2024) How do you size a hip rafter? A hip rafter is designed on its OWN pitch - not the pitch of the roof it carries - it carries a TRIANGULAR load, and its dead load and roof live load are measured on two different lengths. This video sizes one all the way through: a 19.8 ft (horizontal) hip beam on a 6:12 clay-tile hip roof, as a 6x12 Douglas Fir-Larch No. 2 (Beams & Stringers) by Allowable Stress Design per NDS 2024. Then the same hip is entered field by field in StructSuite and every number is checked against the hand calculation. https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/beamwise12202025-8683197-cd8e6.firebasestorage.app/o/tutorials%2Fguide-hip-rafter-design-example-sloped-roof-nds-2024.mp4?alt=media 2455 2026-09-20T23:59:53-07:00 yes no StructSuite no https://structsuite.com/videos/seismic-base-shear-example-asce7-22-two-story-wood-house 2026-10-30 https://structsuite.com/images/videos/seismic-base-shear-example-asce7-22-two-story-wood-house.jpg Seismic Base Shear Step by Step - How to Calculate V (ASCE 7-22 ELF Worked Example) How do you calculate seismic base shear? V = Cs x W. This video works the whole ASCE 7-22 Equivalent Lateral Force (ELF) procedure end to end on a two-story wood-frame house: an honest seismic weight takeoff (W = 81,100 lb), design spectral accelerations SDS and SD1, Seismic Design Category, the R / Omega-zero / Cd system factors, the approximate period Ta, the response coefficient Cs with all four limits, base shear V = 12,477 lb, the vertical distribution to story forces Fx, and the diaphragm forces Fpx that are a SEPARATE calculation people routinely miss. Then the same house is entered field by field in StructSuite and every number is checked against the hand calculation. https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/beamwise12202025-8683197-cd8e6.firebasestorage.app/o/tutorials%2Fguide-seismic-base-shear-example-asce7-22-two-story-wood-house.mp4?alt=media 2352 2026-09-20T23:59:53-07:00 yes no StructSuite no https://structsuite.com/videos/wind-load-calculation-example-asce7-22-chapter-28-envelope-low-rise-building 2026-10-11 https://structsuite.com/images/videos/wind-load-calculation-example-asce7-22-chapter-28-envelope-low-rise-building.jpg Wind Load Calculation Step by Step - Envelope Procedure for Low-Rise (ASCE 7-22 Ch. 28) When do you use the Envelope Procedure instead of the Directional Procedure? For low-rise buildings, ASCE 7-22 Chapter 28 replaces surface-by-surface Cp with pseudo-pressure ZONES that already envelope the worst wind direction - which is faster, and usually more conservative. This works one all the way through on a two-story suburban house: velocity pressure qh with the Exposure B footnote unique to Chapter 28, internal pressure, the edge-zone dimension a, every GCpf zone for all four load cases of Figures 28.3-1 and 28.3-2, zone areas case by case, base shear and uplift, and the Section 28.3.6 minimum - which governs three of the four cases here. Then the same building is entered field by field in StructSuite and checked against the hand calculation. https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/beamwise12202025-8683197-cd8e6.firebasestorage.app/o/tutorials%2Fguide-wind-load-calculation-example-asce7-22-chapter-28-envelope-low-rise-building.mp4?alt=media 1666 2026-09-20T19:16:02-07:00 yes no StructSuite no https://structsuite.com/videos/wind-load-calculation-example-asce7-22-chapter-27-gable-roof-house 2026-10-11 https://structsuite.com/images/videos/wind-load-calculation-example-asce7-22-chapter-27-gable-roof-house.jpg Wind Load Calculation Step by Step - How to Calculate MWFRS Wind Pressure (ASCE 7-22 Ch. 27) How do you calculate wind load on a building? This works the full ASCE 7-22 Chapter 27 Directional Procedure end to end on a two-story gable-roof house: velocity pressure qz, external pressure coefficients Cp from Figure 27.3-1 with the roof-angle interpolation done in full, design pressures p with BOTH internal-pressure signs, the four MWFRS load cases of Figure 27.3-8, and the Section 27.1.5 minimum design wind load. Then the same building is entered field by field in StructSuite and every number is checked against the hand calculation. https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/beamwise12202025-8683197-cd8e6.firebasestorage.app/o/tutorials%2Fguide-wind-load-calculation-example-asce7-22-chapter-27-gable-roof-house.mp4?alt=media 1682 2026-09-20T19:16:02-07:00 yes no StructSuite no https://structsuite.com/videos/wood-column-design-example-tall-wall-wind-nds-2024 2026-10-11 https://structsuite.com/images/videos/wood-column-design-example-tall-wall-wind-nds-2024.jpg Wood Column Design Step by Step - Tall Wall with Wind + Axial (NDS 2024 Worked Example) How do you design a wood column that carries wind as well as gravity? You stop treating it as a column. A stud in a 22-ft tall wall is a BEAM-COLUMN - it carries axial compression and bending at the same time - and the NDS 2024 Section 3.9.2 combined-stress equation (Eq. 3.9-3), not the axial check, is what actually governs it. This video sizes one all the way through, by Allowable Stress Design per NDS 2024: an 8x10 Douglas Fir-Larch No. 2 in a 22-ft tall wall under 227 plf of wind. Then the same column is entered field by field in StructSuite and every number is checked against the hand calculation. https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/beamwise12202025-8683197-cd8e6.firebasestorage.app/o/tutorials%2Fguide-wood-column-design-example-tall-wall-wind-nds-2024.mp4?alt=media 3066 2026-09-20T23:59:53-07:00 yes no StructSuite no https://structsuite.com/videos/basement-wall-design-example-at-rest-pressure-house-load 2026-10-29 https://structsuite.com/images/videos/basement-wall-design-example-at-rest-pressure-house-load.jpg Basement Wall Design Step by Step - At-Rest Pressure, House Load and Adjacent Footing (ACI 318-25) How do you design a basement-type retaining wall? A wall whose top is tied to a rigid floor slab cannot lean, so IBC §1610.1 requires at-rest pressure; the active-pressure exception for foundation walls up to 8 ft needs a flexible diaphragm at the top. Loads on the stem go in by type, because each takes its own load factors and only the dead load may resist. This video designs an 8 ft concrete wall that carries the house above it, with a neighbor's garage footing in the backfill, cohesion and 50% passive from the soils report, perched groundwater, and restrained-wall seismic pressure, start to finish. https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/beamwise12202025-8683197-cd8e6.firebasestorage.app/o/tutorials%2Fretaining-wall-5-basement-at-rest-seismic.mp4?alt=media 564 2026-10-29T23:00:00-07:00 yes no StructSuite no https://structsuite.com/videos/cmu-retaining-wall-design-example-property-line-fence-wind 2026-10-29 https://structsuite.com/images/videos/cmu-retaining-wall-design-example-property-line-fence-wind.jpg CMU Retaining Wall Design Step by Step - Property Line Block Wall with Fence and Wind (TMS 402-22) How do you design a concrete block (CMU) retaining wall on a property line? With no toe, the footing is all heel: the resultant moves toward the front edge, so the edge bearing grows and sliding leans on base friction. The masonry stem is checked by allowable stress design to TMS 402-22, and wind on the stem and fence is checked both ways, because wind toward the soil puts the stem's toe face in tension. This video designs a 7 ft CMU wall retaining 5 ft, with a 4 ft wood fence on top and 21 psf of wind, start to finish. Trial one fails sliding, wind reversal and the dowel hook; a 14 in footing, a 5 ft heel and toe-face bars fix all three. https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/beamwise12202025-8683197-cd8e6.firebasestorage.app/o/tutorials%2Fretaining-wall-2-cmu-property-line.mp4?alt=media 610 2026-10-29T23:00:00-07:00 yes no StructSuite no https://structsuite.com/videos/concrete-retaining-wall-design-example-6ft-cantilever 2026-10-29 https://structsuite.com/images/videos/concrete-retaining-wall-design-example-6ft-cantilever.jpg Concrete Retaining Wall Design Step by Step - 6 ft Cantilever Worked Example (IBC 2024, ACI 318-25) How do you design a concrete retaining wall without a soils report? Take the lateral soil load from IBC Table 1610.1 and the bearing, friction and passive values from IBC Table 1806.2, then check overturning and sliding against a safety factor of 1.5, the bearing pressure, and the strength and anchorage of every bar. This video designs a 6 ft cantilever concrete wall behind a backyard that way, start to finish. Trial one fails sliding (FS 1.45, below the 1.5 required) and the toe bars cannot develop; six more inches of heel and a 180° hook fix both. https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/beamwise12202025-8683197-cd8e6.firebasestorage.app/o/tutorials%2Fretaining-wall-1-concrete-6ft.mp4?alt=media 660 2026-10-29T23:00:00-07:00 yes no StructSuite no https://structsuite.com/videos/retaining-wall-shear-key-design-example-driveway-surcharge 2026-10-29 https://structsuite.com/images/videos/retaining-wall-shear-key-design-example-driveway-surcharge.jpg Retaining Wall Shear Key Design Step by Step - 10 ft CMU Wall with Driveway Surcharge (TMS 402-22) When does a retaining wall need a shear key? When base friction and the passive soil in front cannot reach a safety factor of 1.5 against sliding, which is common on tall walls carrying a surcharge. The key pushes into the soil below the footing and deepens the passive block. This video designs a 10 ft CMU wall under a driveway, with a 100 psf variable surcharge and a stem stepping from 12 in to 8 in block. Trial one slides at FS 1.25 and its bars stop too low at the step; a 12 × 18 in shear key under the stem and a step raised to 6 ft bring sliding to 1.61. https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/beamwise12202025-8683197-cd8e6.firebasestorage.app/o/tutorials%2Fretaining-wall-3-cmu-10ft-stepped-key.mp4?alt=media 537 2026-10-29T23:00:00-07:00 yes no StructSuite no https://structsuite.com/videos/seismic-earth-pressure-retaining-wall-example-mononobe-okabe 2026-10-29 https://structsuite.com/images/videos/seismic-earth-pressure-retaining-wall-example-mononobe-okabe.jpg Seismic Earth Pressure on a Retaining Wall Step by Step - Mononobe-Okabe, Sloped Backfill (IBC 2024) How do you calculate seismic earth pressure behind a retaining wall with a sloping backfill? IBC §1807.2.2 requires it in Seismic Design Category D, E or F for a wall retaining more than 6 ft. Mononobe-Okabe has a solution only while φ − ψ − β stays positive, and Seed-Whitman does not apply to sloping ground above the wall. This video designs an 8 ft concrete wall under a 3H:1V slope in SDC D. With kh = SDS/2.5 = 0.4, Mononobe-Okabe has no solution, so the soils report's site-specific kh = 0.2 is used. Seismic sliding at FS 1.15 (1.1 required) governs the final design. https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/beamwise12202025-8683197-cd8e6.firebasestorage.app/o/tutorials%2Fretaining-wall-4-sloped-backfill-seismic.mp4?alt=media 522 2026-10-29T23:00:00-07:00 yes no StructSuite no https://structsuite.com/videos/retaining-wall-tutorial 2026-10-30 https://structsuite.com/images/videos/retaining-wall-tutorial.jpg Cantilever Retaining Wall Design Step by Step — Full Worked Example (ACI 318-25, IBC 2024) How do you design a cantilever retaining wall? Check it as a rigid body first, overturning and sliding at a safety factor of 1.5 plus the soil bearing (IBC 2024 Section 1807.2.3), then design the stem, heel and toe as reinforced concrete per ACI 318-25, adding seismic earth pressure where IBC 1807.2.2 requires it. This video designs one in StructSuite per ACI 318-25, IBC 2024 and ASCE 7-22, start to finish. The wall fails twice on purpose, sliding at FS 1.31 and seismic sliding at FS 0.93, and a 12 x 42 in shear key fixes both. https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/beamwise12202025-8683197-cd8e6.firebasestorage.app/o/tutorials%2Fretaining-wall-tutorial.mp4?alt=media 519 2026-09-11T09:43:46-07:00 yes no StructSuite no https://structsuite.com/videos/gravity-loads-tutorial 2026-10-30 https://structsuite.com/images/videos/gravity-loads-tutorial.jpg Dead Load and Live Load Calculation Step by Step — Worked Example (ASCE 7-22 Tables C3.1-1a, 4.3-1) How do you calculate the dead and live loads for a residential floor? Add up the weight of every layer of the floor assembly from ASCE 7-22 Table C3.1-1a to get D in psf, then take each occupancy's live load from ASCE 7-22 Table 4.3-1: 40 psf for living areas, 30 psf for sleeping areas. This video assembles both in StructSuite: a floor dead-load assembly out of Table C3.1-1a totalling D = 15.20 psf, and the full standard residential live-load set from Table 4.3-1 in one click. https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/beamwise12202025-8683197-cd8e6.firebasestorage.app/o/tutorials%2Fdead-live-loads-tutorial.mp4?alt=media 86 2026-07-08T19:26:00-07:00 yes no StructSuite no https://structsuite.com/videos/framing-tutorial 2026-10-30 https://structsuite.com/images/videos/framing-tutorial.jpg Floor Joist Span Table Explained — IBC 2024 Worked Example: Sizing a 14 ft Joist Step by Step How do you size a floor joist from the span tables? Pick the table for your live load (40 psf for living areas, 30 psf for sleeping areas), find the row for your species, grade and spacing, read the 10 or 20 psf dead-load column, and use the smallest size whose allowable span is at least your span. This video does it in StructSuite off the 2024 IBC prescriptive span tables, with a pass/fail check that names the exact table it read. A 14 ft span on a 2x8 fails on screen, and the fix takes one click. https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/beamwise12202025-8683197-cd8e6.firebasestorage.app/o/tutorials%2Ffloor-joist-tutorial.mp4?alt=media 116 2026-07-08T19:26:00-07:00 yes no StructSuite no https://structsuite.com/videos/foundation-tutorial 2026-10-30 https://structsuite.com/images/videos/foundation-tutorial.jpg Isolated Spread Footing Design Step by Step — Full Worked Example (ACI 318-25, ASCE 7-22) How do you design a spread footing? Size the plan so the service-load bearing pressure stays within the allowable soil bearing, then check the factored loads per ACI 318-25: one-way shear, two-way punching shear, flexure at the column face and bar development length. This video designs an isolated footing under an interior wood column in StructSuite, start to finish. The first try, 5 x 5 ft, fails on bearing at D/C 1.27; an 8 x 8 ft footing passes every check. https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/beamwise12202025-8683197-cd8e6.firebasestorage.app/o/tutorials%2Ffooting-tutorial.mp4?alt=media 128 2026-07-08T19:26:00-07:00 yes no StructSuite no https://structsuite.com/videos/seismic-loads-tutorial 2026-10-30 https://structsuite.com/images/videos/seismic-loads-tutorial.jpg Seismic Base Shear Calculation Step by Step — ASCE 7-22 Equivalent Lateral Force Worked Example How do you calculate seismic base shear with the ASCE 7-22 equivalent lateral force procedure? V = Cs x W (Eq. 12.8-1), with Cs = SDS/(R/Ie) (Eq. 12.8-3), capped by the Eq. 12.8-4 and 12.8-5 upper bounds and held above the Eq. 12.8-6 floor (and Eq. 12.8-7 where S1 is at least 0.6 g). This video runs ASCE 7-22 Chapter 12 in StructSuite on a two-story light-frame wood building, start to finish: spectral values, Seismic Design Category, R from Table 12.2-1, the period Ta, Cs, V, the story forces Fx and the diaphragm forces Fpx. https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/beamwise12202025-8683197-cd8e6.firebasestorage.app/o/tutorials%2Fseismic-tutorial.mp4?alt=media 113 2026-07-08T19:26:00-07:00 yes no StructSuite no https://structsuite.com/videos/cover-sheet-tutorial 2026-10-30 https://structsuite.com/images/videos/cover-sheet-tutorial.jpg Structural Calculation Cover Sheet for Permit Submittal — Free Template, Step by Step What goes on the cover sheet of a structural calculation package? The project title and address, the owner, the engineer of record with stamp and signature, the firm, project number, issue date and revision, and general notes naming the code edition and scope. This video builds one in StructSuite: pick one of three cover templates, switch off any of the 14 blocks you do not need, and type the details straight onto the sheet. It lays out on an 8.5 x 11 page and is free to use with no account. https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/beamwise12202025-8683197-cd8e6.firebasestorage.app/o/tutorials%2Fcover-sheet-tutorial.mp4?alt=media 67 2026-07-08T19:26:00-07:00 yes no StructSuite no https://structsuite.com/videos/wind-loads-tutorial 2026-10-30 https://structsuite.com/images/videos/wind-loads-tutorial.jpg Wind Load Calculation Step by Step — MWFRS Worked Example (ASCE 7-22 Chapter 27, Directional) How do you calculate MWFRS wind loads with ASCE 7-22 Chapter 27? Find the velocity pressure qh = 0.00256 Kh Kzt Ke V squared at the mean roof height (Eq. 26.10-1 at z = h), then the pressure on each surface, p = q Kd G Cp minus qi Kd (GCpi) (Eq. 27.3-1), with Cp from Figure 27.3-1. This video runs the Directional Procedure in StructSuite, start to finish, on a 120 x 80 ft building with a 20 degree gable roof, h = 30 ft, 115 mph, Exposure C: Kz, qh, Cp, the pressures on every surface in both wind directions, and the four design wind load cases of Figure 27.3-8. https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/beamwise12202025-8683197-cd8e6.firebasestorage.app/o/tutorials%2Fwind-tutorial.mp4?alt=media 133 2026-07-08T19:26:00-07:00 yes no StructSuite no https://structsuite.com/videos/wood-beam-tutorial 2026-10-30 https://structsuite.com/images/videos/wood-beam-tutorial.jpg Wood Beam Design Step by Step — Two-Span Continuous Worked Example (NDS 2024, ASCE 7-22) How do you design a wood beam per NDS 2024? Take the moment and shear from each ASD load combination, adjust the tabulated Fb and Fv by the NDS factors that apply (CD, CM, Ct, Ci, plus CL, CF and Cr for bending), check fb = M/S and fv = 1.5V/A against them, then check deflection against L/360 live and L/240 total. This video designs a two-span continuous Douglas Fir-Larch No. 2 floor girder that way in StructSuite, start to finish. The 4x12 fails at D/C 1.36 and the 4x14 at 1.08; the 4x16 passes at 0.82. https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/beamwise12202025-8683197-cd8e6.firebasestorage.app/o/tutorials%2Fwood-beam-tutorial.mp4?alt=media 225 2026-07-08T19:26:00-07:00 yes no StructSuite no https://structsuite.com/videos/wood-column-tutorial 2026-10-30 https://structsuite.com/images/videos/wood-column-tutorial.jpg Wood Column Design Step by Step — Worked Example, Column Stability Factor CP (NDS 2024) How do you design a wood column per NDS 2024? Find the effective length Le = Ke x L from the end conditions, take the slenderness Le/d about the weak axis, get the column stability factor CP from NDS Eq. 3.7-1, and check fc = P/A against F'c = Fc* x CP. This video designs an 8 ft Douglas Fir-Larch No. 2 post in StructSuite, start to finish. The first section, a 4x6, is overstressed because weak-axis slenderness limits it, and a 4x8 passes. https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/beamwise12202025-8683197-cd8e6.firebasestorage.app/o/tutorials%2Fwood-column-tutorial.mp4?alt=media 121 2026-07-08T19:26:00-07:00 yes no StructSuite no https://structsuite.com/videos/shear-wall-tutorial 2026-10-30 https://structsuite.com/images/videos/shear-wall-tutorial.jpg Wood Shear Wall Design Step by Step — Wind and Seismic Worked Example (SDPWS 2021, ASCE 7-22) How do you design a wood shear wall per SDPWS 2021? Divide the ASD force at the top of the wall line by the wall length to get the unit shear in plf, then pick sheathing and nailing from SDPWS Table 4.3A whose nominal capacity, divided by 2.8 for seismic or 2.0 for wind, covers it, and add a hold-down. This video designs a 9 ft tall, 8 ft long wall in StructSuite, start to finish. At 6 in edge nailing the seismic unit shear runs at 119% and fails; at 4 in the same wall passes at 77%. https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/beamwise12202025-8683197-cd8e6.firebasestorage.app/o/tutorials%2Fshear-wall-tutorial.mp4?alt=media 92 2026-07-08T19:26:00-07:00 yes no StructSuite no