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  1. highlander50

    Foundation design for a challenging site: old foundation wall, potential differential settlement, and unknown foundation depth

    Dear Engineers, I want to present a problem I’ve encountered in one of our projects. We have a client planning to build a house on a plot of land. The plot is quite large, and he only intends to use half of it. The area where the house is to be built is partially covered by an old swimming...
  2. highlander50

    Traction load in tilted piles

    Hi EireChch and SlideRuleEra, Thank you so much to both! Very interesting the publications suggested, it helped me a lot! Regards,
  3. highlander50

    Traction load in tilted piles

    Hi Eirechch, Thank you so much for your answer, but i'm not quite sure this to be exactly the same, that's why I'm asking. I'm not an specialist in soil nails, but I guess are designed to retain the soil and not subjected to external traction loads far away from the ones produced by the own...
  4. highlander50

    Traction load in tilted piles

    Hi engineers, I'm currently facing a project where piles are going to be tilted (B) insted of vertical (0º), and those are going to be subjected to pull out (similar to an anchorage). The piles will be directly rammed into the soil and will be steel piles. I attach an scheme for a better...

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