@HTURKAK, thanks for your feedback and for sharing the references. I am using both ACI 350 and ACI 350.3 but somehow I missed that statement in ACI 350.3 for the walls to be analyzed as slabs out-of-plane. I guess I was looking too hard in ACI 318 and ACI 350 for answers to this (sigh...)...
I am working on a project that involves the design of water-filled, soil buried rectangular concrete basins in a Seismic Design Category D area and the design is based on the ACI 318-19 code. The walls are retaining soil and liquid loads (static and seismic), they are fixed at the bottom and...
Ron and strucbells, thank you for your responses.
I am not an expert on aluminum and I have been doing some reading on it lately (another part of the project is to install aluminum railing around the hatches). I also see the hatch manufacturers typically specify bituminous coating in their...
Hi everyone,
I am looking for help on how to properly assess the extend of concrete spalling around an access hatch installed on a concrete slab, and on subsequent repair methods, if deemed necessary.
Some background: the project involves the replacement of an existing aluminum access hatch...
