That's just it, they answers weren't remotely close -- the PCI version came up with dramatically smaller embed requirements. Ends up that the submitted calculations had an error in them -- once corrected, PCI and ACI were pretty close.
Thanks for all the feedback, I really appreciate it.
I'm reviewing a set of precast concrete submittals. The precast engineer has taken it upon himself to redesign the cast-in-place embedments that the precast will attach to.
He's designing them using PCI 6th Edition (chapter 6), and is coming up with drastically different results than what we...
