siuceric21
Civil/Environmental
- Apr 2, 2011
- 17
I am in the process of designing a Storm Water Control Vault that is 80' x 40' x 6' roughly 1 ft below top of paving. The vault is am planning on designing as a one way slab spanning in the 40' direction.
Knowing there is potential fire truck traffic over this box (& semi truck) I looked up wheel loading of fire trucks and came across the below showing a 62,000 max GAWR (Gross Axle wheel loading). My thought is this loading would control over semi-truck loading (for my specific instance), would you agree? It seemed a bit of a shock to me (typically a Buildings Engineer) as HS-20 / HL 93 is talked as the design loading for Bridges but seems to me the 62k tandem axle load would control in certain instances.
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Knowing there is potential fire truck traffic over this box (& semi truck) I looked up wheel loading of fire trucks and came across the below showing a 62,000 max GAWR (Gross Axle wheel loading). My thought is this loading would control over semi-truck loading (for my specific instance), would you agree? It seemed a bit of a shock to me (typically a Buildings Engineer) as HS-20 / HL 93 is talked as the design loading for Bridges but seems to me the 62k tandem axle load would control in certain instances.
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