I recently inspected a 120,000sf, 70+ year old building with 360 6x8 southern pine columns. Approximately 85-90% of the columns had surface cracks. Nearly 100% of those occured on the 8" side of the column. The cracks ranged from a <1/16" to over a 1/2". The larger ones extending from 1 1/2" to...
What about carbon fiber strips? And if so does anybody have ideas or recommendations where I can find the structural design properties or how to equate it to steel reinforcing?
Does anybody have any recommendations for providing both vertical and horizontal reinforcing to existing CMU wall without making the wall look like swiss cheese? The existing wall is unreinforced and has no horizontal joint reinforcing. Really don't want to have to saw cut at 48" each way.
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