Is it correct that the gap between rebar in piles should be 100mm for bar diameters greater than 32mm.and its aggregate size plus 5mm or bar diameter?.
Just done a calc of foundation anchor bolts using hilti online software. The hilti bolt capacities (based on combined cone pull out) appear much higher than the Ec code capacity (based on bond stress between anchor an concrete). Is the hilti software reliable?. Been looking at previous...
How do I calculate outward busting forces in a circular concrete pile at positions of cracked longitudinal rebars. This column is 800mm dia with 15No dia 32mm bars to enable splicing. The pile is 23m long. The rebar has 2 spices. Links are a spiral dia 16mm bars at 250mm pitch. Because there are...