I find that the application of bending moment reduction is usually dependent on non-technical aspects of the job. Do you trust the General Contractor and Shoring contractor enough to give them a more aggressive design? Anchored walls are usually installed to protect adjacent structures, so...
Hello BC93.
Before I get into follow-up questions, a word of advice. Modeling soil behaviour in FEA is a tricky thing to do. Further, the FEA is usually done to determine the movements of the soil mass and structures. Our abilities to input the correct soils parameters, problem geometry and...
