Good morning guys!
This is kind of related to thread255-277625.
A young engineer in our company is designing a retaining wall in California for DSA, and we have to include lateral earth pressure due to earthquake (AKA seismic increment). He asked me how to input the Fp of the wall in Enercalc...
dgillette, we are talking about sliding due to earthquake loads. Our steps are 2(H) to 1 (V). As described in the attachment, the difference in elevation is 11ft total.
Thanks for your post.
Thanks for your answers, but the sliding/friction resistance I am loosing is 10 times as much (CMU building, 65ft tall) as the passive resistance.
If the sliding is reduced, HOW MUCH is it reduced by?
I don't think it is right to completely ignore the friction in the stepped area (and sliding...
We have a DSA plancheck comment that insists on the fact that the overall sliding of the building is reduced at areas where we have stepped footings.
Our geotechnical engineers disagrees with the plan checker, but Mr plan checker is asking him to prove via existing publication that there is no...
