Designing some MSE walls with reinforced soil slopes above. The toe of the above slope is to be setback from the wall face by 6-ft. I am looking for a method/approximation to apply a surcharge as a cont. strip footing offset behind the wall. There isn't an AASHTO or LRFD procedure for this...
I am looking to establish a range of unit costs per square foot for various soil nail wall finishes. I have done as much research through the DOTs to develop a range, but I am curious what ya'll have seen in your projects. A little background information, I know my base cost for the wall will be...
Looking to better understand the difference between the three classes for geotextiles. I understand per the M288-06 selection guide that the classes are broken out based upon the survivability of the geotextiles, but was curious as to how those classes are actually determined. I did some...
End game is to calculate the estimated settlement beneath spread footings. We do know that it is and will remain unsaturated. The site is pretty remote so we only have information from test pits. Pocket penetrometer readings greater than 4.0 TSF. And sorry I didn't state correctly. I'm looking...
I'm looking to estimate the constrained modulus (ksf) for use in the Janbu method for a hard dry clay that we were unable to extract brass cylinders for in the field during investigation. The clay was so hard that we could not drive the cylinders into the clay. Knowing that typical values for a...
