Thank you for your response, actually I was working on a project there and found multiple samples provided by the client showing 12" belled piers, reinforced with 2-#5 long reinforcement and no ties, and the soil engineer and the contractor as well confirmed that they are always using this type...
@JAE
I understand that the two rebars will work with the pier reinforcement ratio for long rebars, but what I saw that the piers does not have any hoops or circular ties, which is really a big question here, how should the confinement happen?
Also, it is required by AASHTO and ACI to provide...
Hi All,
I am working on a residential building in TX, and I have seen some samples showing that the piers are 12" diameter and just reinforced with 2-#6 long rebars and no ties were included there, the piers will be disconnected from the grade beams and using void boxes under the grade beams...
Hi Folks,
I am working on a project in Texas, low wind and low seismic, the soil is expansive soil and the soil engineer recommended the system to be grade beams and belled piers, the Architect and GC showed me a sample of another project and wanted to follow that one, the system was done as...
Thank you All, it was really helpful, I have worked on 5% of the axial load in columns to be taken by the diaphragm, also provided PA23 at all trusses and HPA35 at columns locations with CMST12 coil straps.
Hey Engineers,
I have a two story concrete building with wood trusses framing in the first story and concrete slab on the roof, unfortunately I cannot increase the column size in width and shall stick to 8", but I can increase the column length, currently I have concrete column 8x24, and the...
