By that logic you would have to anchor your foundations foundation with another foundation and so on.....with an equipment mat the sliding resistance should control over overturning moment, especially with your equipment being short. If your sliding stability needs to be increased embedding the...
I neglected steel along the bottom of the abutment(where the abutment sits on the footing); what I am trying to design is the amount of steel extended down into the footing from the abutment (essentialy what would be flexural reinforcement in a cantilever). Does this make sense?
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I am new to the board and am designing the steel for a bridge abutment. The 4'8" wide, 5'6" in height 24' long abutment sits upon a footing which is 7'8" wide, 25' long and 30" deep. The abutment sits 1ft to the right eccentric on top of the footing. I have designed for Temp/Shrinkage...