Swimming Pool Design
Swimming Pool Design
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I was looking for reference material for the design of a commercial swimming pool. I have very little experience in this, mostly trying to relate it to cooling tower basin design. This installation, I believe will be in an area with expansive clays. My contact mentioned putting the pool on piers. I guess supporting the pool from piers seems like a tall order, I would expect that would require a lot of piers. The pool depth will be from 3 to 10' deep. Any help would be appreciated.






RE: Swimming Pool Design
If you put the pool on piles, then you need a pile cap to resist punching shear. I would then design conc. beams spanning from one pile cap to the next, and then design your pool walls to span between conc. beams.
High strength conc. may also be a good idea.
RE: Swimming Pool Design
http://handyhand.www1.50megs.com/pools.html
that must open to many other related sites.
RE: Swimming Pool Design
RE: Swimming Pool Design
One other thing to check - where's your ground water elevation? If you have high ground water, and your pool is empty during the early spring months, you must check uplift.
Also, perhaps you may be permitted to use a live load reduction? I'm not sure what the code says about water as a live load, if anything. Anyone have any comments on that?
RE: Swimming Pool Design
RE: Swimming Pool Design
follow design for watertight consruction.
design steel as simply supported between piles, add 25%, you'll have a stiff section that will deal with any failing if any of the piles settle more than others.
loading uniform - piles/slab should find their equilibrium.
curing important - quality of workmanship etc.
design elements simply supported, e.g tank structure. ease of construction try to use double layers of mesh each face for walls/slabs. L & U bars for connections.