We designed a shoring job a few years ago for a client. A claim was made on our insurance. I thought that this claim had gone away as I had not heard of it. We issued plans and a sealed submittal. Months later when the contractor was doing the work they disobeyed the plans by driving the piles...
I’m doing a bridge jacking and the assembly has a top and bottom jack beam. My question is that is there any way to model a support with a reaction for -Y loads only. In other words, bearing reaction only so that it doesn’t restrict uplift? I am analyzing another engineers design and their...
