My thoughts are that there is a soil arching effect.
Arching occurs when there is a difference of the stiffness between the installed structure and the surrounding soil. If the structure is stiffer than the soil then load arches onto the structure. Otherwise, if the structure is less stiff than...
I think it may be some type of nailer as well. It is the entire length of the party wall and the sections I checked was all the way through to the neighbor's side.
Phased removal defintely does sound like the proper approach. For added protection during the phased reapir process, I was thinking...
Encountered a 2" thick strip of wood within a 2-wythe bonded brick wall (party wall) right above basement floor level(3 Story Above). Basically, the brick wall was constructed to a certain height, a 2" wood board was placed down and then the construction of brick continued on top of this wood...
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Guardrails are often labeled as Strong or Weak post but I can't find a definitive definition of each. I have heard it deals with the deflection of the post at impact but can't find the criteria or the standard that caterogizes the system as strong or weak.
Your help would be greatly...
I've come accross many situations where I have a vehicle guard rail attached or directly adjacent to the top of the a (concrete/masonry/steel) retaining wall. Most of the time they're along drives and parking lots within a site.
AASHTO Section 2 says to use a 10kip load over 5ft for concrete...
