Is there a requirement to place bedding of a certain minimum thickness below a buried pipe? I am trying to find a source that says that if the soils under the pipe have sufficient capacity, then there is no minimum requirement for bedding materials.
This is for 24" pipe piles with 0.5" thickness filled with concrete as the foundation type retaining walls. These piles are short and each pile is placed after predrilling hole to the required depth and then the concrete is placed within this steel pipe pile. It is assumed that the...
For geotechnical purposes, is there a procedure to "estimate" the scour depth for a certain stream or branch? The reason for this question is that there is requirement for geotechnical reports to determine the depth of scour. However, a scour analysis has not been performed and will...