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Brick wall in between RC walls 1

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May 6, 2022
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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.
 
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A 100-200mm thk brick wall, 1.5m high to resist out-of plane hydrostatic pressures ranging somewehere between 10-30 kPa? In wet conditions with holes?

1. I say not a chance, this needs to be RC wall. Too dangerous.
2. I don't know your problem, can't advise out of the blue. If brick wall is existing & you have access, you could use wire fabric reinforcement on the back of the wall with shotcrete (or gunite). 100mm could do it.

 
I don't know -- if the hydrostatic pressures are mostly balanced at all times, and the brick is constructed in a way that allows arching between the top and bottom concrete, that may be feasible.

As far as constructibility, I agree with Kost that more info is needed

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@kostast88 It's not existing. I was doing a design review, We have 68 of this rectangular holes of size 20cmx5cm in 4 rows by 16 columns within 8m length. I was wondering why they didn't use full RC wall but beside the obvious concern, I then thought this might make a little sense considering the difficulty to use concrete vibrator and formwork erection (the holes are above one another). But, I don't think this is right,Thank you for your answer. I'm making it full RC now.
 
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