Concrete wall thickness 1

[BoomerSooner7]

Hello,
I am building a water containment wall surrounding process water tanks. The wall is boxed in to form a rectangle, dimensions are approximately 500" W x 300" L x 55" H. So the maximum pressure the wall would see is 55" of standing water. The wall will have rebar going into existing concrete floor. My question is how thick does the wall need to be assuming 3000 psi concrete.

thanks.

 

[HSIII]

Contractors....

Nevermind, I won't vent here, that'd just be wrong and petty.

 

[msquared48]

The word is contradictors, not contractors.

Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
Motto: KISS
Motivation: Don't ask

 

[csd72]

BoomerSooner7,

All the design advice above is intended for preliminary design only and should not be taken as a substitute for professional structural engineering advise.

a2mfk,

You happy!

 

[a2mfk]

csd- YES!!! Merry Christmas to all!

Hokie- I know where you are coming from. Been to Spain a few times and hung out on some job sites lending a hand. The tape was in CM and so were the plans, so your room dimensions would be like 440cm x 300cm, and besides the Spanish it was an easy system to get the hang of.

Sometimes when doing tile and woodworking work around the house I use a metric tape because the dimensions are easier to work with and remember.

I digress. Have a good holidays everyone.

 

[hokie66]

a2mfk,
The Spanish have still got it wrong if that is the case. The dimensions should be in mm, not cm. Dressmakers use cm, engineers use mm.

 

[a2mfk]

hokie, my turkey loving friend, that is what decimal places are for.... And we ain't building rockets or car parts

If its good enough for Calatrava, its good enough for me!

 

[hokie66]

Well, not for me. If it's not in multiples of 10^3, I don't use it. The French persist in using kg/cm^2, but the Spanish should know better.

 

[csd72]

But how does that work when the marking crayon is at least 5mm wide?

Have a good christmas everyone.

 

[BoomerSooner7]

My bad, I guess I posted this in the smarta*s forum by mistake . I am fully aware there is no substiture for paying a PE to give professional advice, however I thought I would try to get some preliminary advice from people who might have some experience with a similar structure. Anyway, thanks to everyone who had something worth saying.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone!

 

[a2mfk]

Boomer- Our responses were as such because this forum is not a free structural design service website. To do so would violate the code of ethics of our licenses, and if I were you, I would not blindly accept the advice of strangers on a message board. Any one of us could have called out something that would have probably worked for your situation. Its the probably that you need to be careful with.

The forum as I understand it is geared for working structural engineers (not even students) with specific questions on a problem they have, more of a push to get over the hump, than "how do I design this?"...

Its certainly not personal, and yes, there are some ball busters - even if you are a structural PE you better provide a sketch and give us all the info!!