Some questions concerning Retaining Walls with Relief Shelves:
I have a very old engineering book that describes relief arches behind retaining walls, but that seems quite different.
Does anyone have any experience designing retaining walls with relief shelves and be willing to share their...
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Note that rockery guidelines advise that the long side of the boulder be placed perpendicular to the run of the wall. Therefore, you may want to check if you even have enough material on site.
If you do design the wall as a rockery, I'd be very...
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A bit more background: The project is in a rocky area in the middle east and the local engineers say that casting direct against the rock is a typical construction methodology. It is one of those, "we've been doing it like this for 20 years...who are you to...
I am reviewing a design of an 8m tall "L-shaped" concrete fascia wall (i.e., no heel just at the from of the wall) which is to be cast directly against a cut vertical limestone rock face. The rock is fractured enough to allow water to seep behind the wall. The wall has numerous weep holes...
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Mr. Clampett, I am curious why you say that the seismic "mumbo jumbo" seldom controls. (by the way, seismic "mumbo jumbo" is a newly found technical term that I will sprinkle into my vocabulary in the future.) What typically controls?
Can anyone confirm if...
In designing a multi-cell concrete waste treatment tank (approx. 9.5m x 4m) with five compartments in series (1m-1m-2m-1m-3m), the following came up:
In ACI 350.3, the definition of "L" (for use in L/HL) states that L is the inside length of a rectangular tank parallel to the EQ direction. If...
