Does anyone have insight as to why ACI 14.8.2.4 exists? Why are we trying to reinforce a wall to prevent cracking?This seems to contradict the rest of 14.8, where deflections are a function of Icr. There is no commentary given on this.
We typically have not called out weld size for welding rebar perpendicular to a steel plate (e.g. embed plate); instead we've always referenced AWS D1.4.
Recently, a steel fabricator sent thru a change order because he had to increase the weld size per our marked-up shop drawings. Researching...
