SlideRuleEra: The trapezoidal foundation is a great idea to help with the unproportional distribution of loads, I will definitely be looking more into that.
1503-44: I completely understand why we shouldn't be adding any weight or load to the pipe. In truth these poles still may be removed from...
SlideRuleEra: I Quickly threw together a sketch of an idea, but this is without any reference. If there are any readings that you could point me too to better detail and understand this type of rebar work that would be greatly appreciated.
To Remove my vagueness if the sketch below does not...
Hopefully this helps.
The drawing is to scale but some measurements are left out (listed below). The drawing is this specific case with the standard foundation.
Width of footing: 5.2'
Height of footing: 2.25'
Internal Diameter of pipe: 2.5'
External Diameter of pipe: .52'
Diameter of...
Hello all,
I have been looking into a problem my company has been having with installation of light pole foundations over Reinforced Concrete Pipes. We have a standard foundation design for the pipe being directly over the reinforced concrete pipe but obviously that isn't always the case. In...
Another option that I was proposed by a mentor of mine was to install some soil nails at the top 10 ft of excavation to increase the acceptable slope behind the wall and hopefully not penetrating into the neighbor's property then being able to decrease the size of wall to approx. 14-16 ft which...
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If you could elaborate a little more on the advantages such wall that would make is stable enough to be designed in such small clearances. I haven't seen any designs with lightweight concrete before.
And thank you everyone for the help. The project got delayed till Spring, so I am...
Great question and I'll be interested to see some other responses to this question.
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