The usual procedure is to first put compacted soil and put the tie beam on top of the compacted soil so the weight would bear on the soil and not the columns. But in one of the tie beams in the constuction site, the tie beam was poured with concrete using just wooden support (and not soil because trying to reach schedule). The tie beam right side also served as the stair support. Now I don't think it's possible to insert tight compacted soil under the tie beam, what do you guys usually do in this case?
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tie beam not on soil
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If you are so concerned, is there a way to reanalyze based on this unsupported tie beam? And if there were soil placed under the tie beam, what is to stop it from not bearing on it in the future due to mat foundation settlement? Can you make the tie beam deeper? Can you add more reinforcing? Is this a relatively short beam, or does it have significant span?
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