Thank you for your comment. The crane supplier made a proposal for the foundation design and the reinforcements in this proposal are much less than the minimum reinforcement. if this is not based on a design code i will implement minimal reinforcement. The crane vendor cannot be reached. And...
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I need to design a thick concrete foundation of a tower crane. It needs to be 1.70 m thick to provide safety factor of overturning moments. Internal forces in the foundation section are not large, that's why even mimimum reinforcement ratio is overdesign. Is there any design rule for...