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I am studying the design criteria for a tank volume calculation, and the document I'm studying says :
"According to the European Legislation (EEC) the water tanks design criteria are:
Storage capacity = regularization volume + maximum (fire, damage).
Since the distribution center...
Thank you all for your responses.
Could you please check the images for the cracks, we are about to cast another foundation next month and we need to try to avoid these cracks.
http://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=0c2ff163-652d-4aeb-9a1b-23784dc94a9c&file=Cracks.zip
Thank you Hokie66 for your replay.
The foundation is around 40 x 40 m and the crack continued along the whole foundation length, which made use worried about the possibility of soil-structure interaction since we have a limestone soil with small cavities.
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We have a 70 cm raft foundation, it was poured around 1 month ago, last week we have noticed cracks connected to its corners.
The image shows these cracks (red lines).
Are these cracks due to the shape of foundation, (knowing that no corner reinforcement were provided) , or it could...
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I have a flat plate (180 mm) thick supported on columns, I have an issue with the punching shear check at exterior columns, the thickness is not enough to satisfy punching stress due to shear and shear due to unbalanced moment. Also, Punching reinforcement can not be used because the...
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The lateral system I am...
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We have a project in an area where the soil consists mainly from limestone rock with present of caves.
We are planning to scan the area using Ground Penetrating Radar.
My Question is whether GPR is suitable for this job and what is the proper depth we need to scan the soil for. The...
