Thanks Hokie93! I totally agree with you. I do have a couple of textbooks to reference and I am familiar with designing the transverse reinforcement for shear and moment from designing retaining wall foundations. Nonetheless, I am very interested in studying Winkler's foundation and Roark's...
Thanks everyone! Glad to know about the reinforcement. I always felt that my trench footings were over-designed when using 0.0018xA. I was thinking my understanding of foundations was off because trench footings are called grade beams so often but I guess that's just how it is.
The wall is...
Thank you both for your feedback. We have a frost depth of about 3' here but stem/strip footing may be the best option for my wall foundation in this case. BAretired, it's not a retaining wall, just a wall to hide some mechanical equipment so the moment from wind loading is much less than it...
Hi Everyone,
I'd like to get some clarification on nomenclature for foundation elements. I have a little over 1 yr of experience and so far, it seems that everyone has their own definition for grade beams, continuous footings, trench footings, etc. In a past project, I designed stem/strip...
Thank you for the responses. SlideRuleEra, if I were to camber the beams, most of them would be 14" deep or less so it's probably not a good option based on that alone. Hypothetically though, if my beams were larger, would it cause issues to have beams shorter than 24' NOT cambered adjacent to...
Hi Everyone,
I am designing beams & girders for a non-rectangular bay and I am trying to decide if I should camber the beams or not. I created two RAM models, one with cambers and one without. The steel weight is reduced about 30-40% with cambering. The issue is my beam lengths vary...
