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Shear through foundation walls at slab interface

Thread starter ianwashbrook
Start date Feb 6, 2003

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Feb 6, 2003

ianwashbrook

Structural

How and where do you check for shear at a reinforced concrete foundation wall (resisting lateral soil pressure) and reinforced concrete structural slab interface?

Do you check a combination of regular beam shear and interface shear? Can you count the vertical wall steel through the interface as shear resistance? I typically use a 150 pocket so that the wall can bear on the wall.

| |
|wall |
| |
| __|____________| | SLAB | |_________________| |
| | SHEAR CHECK?
|wall |
| |

THANKS