The California State University, Fullerton ITE student chapter hosted a Simpson Strong Tie (SST) facility tour on April 26, 2013. Over 25 civil engineering students attended the event. Students from Cal Poly Pomona also joined us for the tour.
The SST facility is located in Riverside, California and houses one of the biggest manufacturing sites for SST products and a Research and Development department. SST is dedicated to helping engineers with any type of structural related issues and also provide a vast amount of information regarding the proper use of SST products.
The SST employees demonstrated 2 different shear wall experiments using their applied moment frame machine and gave a detailed tour of the manufacturing plant. The SST facility manufactures several types of connections such as hanger, beam-column, joist, anchors, and hold-downs. Special custom orders are also made on order such as ordinary moment frames, special moment frames, Simpson shear walls, and extra large connections. During the tour, students listened to a lecture by one of the staff engineers regarding seismic design and load analysis.
We would like to give special thanks to the SST staff for giving CSUF ITE a spectacular tour and providing lunch to us after the tour. Students walked away with some SST parting gifts and useful knowledge for their future careers.