I'm glad you said 'normal'...I thought it was just me. Can't say too much, but am working on a big site with a bigger crane and people get very concerned about settlement under its rail points...so the plate tests here quite rightly were the cyclical type...the issue I have is that when further...
Hi - I understand that the k value is just load/deflection - but I don't have access to the original plate testing results (only the Ev1 and Ev2 values). As I understood it (perhaps incorrectly), the k value is taken from a single (non-cyclical) plate test, whereas the Ev1 / Ev2 values come from...
Hi All.
I’m a structural engineer seeking some advice please. I need to do a high level model of a slab on an elastic foundation…apologies as I appreciate this is a structural engineer in a geotechnical forum talking about elastic models…..so to unwritten rules broken already. 😁 I’m trying to...
