Is it practical to support a basement wall on helical piers -- or are any special precautions necessary? The lateral load at the bottom of the basement wall will probably be more than the allowed lateral load on the piers, and the lateral stiffness of the piers is less than the stiffness of the...
I'm trying to get a better understanding of the wall shear near the bottom edge of an RC basement wall supported on piers. It seems intuitive that an ordinary shear plane would exist along the bottom edge when the piers are very close together. But does the shear eventually become punching...
