ITsSB
Structural
- May 6, 2022
- 34

I have a brick wall in between two RC walls as displayed on my image. Both the top and bottom RC walls (drawn in red) are laterally restrained. The main purpose of the brick wall is that individual bricks can be easily removed during construction inorder to make small holes so that the water flows through them allowing a chemical(flocculant) and water to mix. (instead of using mechanical mixing method). My main recommendation is for the brick wall to be replaced by RC wall with rectangular holes (20cm length by 5cm depth original dimension) but I'm not sure if this will be convienient during construction So, my question is: -
1. Can this be achieved? If this is even possible, with what kind of arrangement do i need to provide to achieve a proper bond without leakage and structural safety ensured.
2. If I have to choose the uniform RC wall will it be easy for construction?
I certainly don't want to compromise safety but I just want to know if this is a common thing.