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Edge beam on precast load bearing wall

Edge beam on precast load bearing wall

Edge beam on precast load bearing wall

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Is it a good design practice to have edge reinforced concrete beam (say 900mm to 1000mm wide) supported on 150mm to 200mm thick precast load bearing wall running parallel to the beam? I mean the beam would be supported by the wall (like an inverted L shape) eccentrically on one side.

How would you detail the reinforcement so that load from the beam can be carried to the wall?

RE: Edge beam on precast load bearing wall

Feasible it is even if not a goodlooking detail in section. Assuming you have pre-compacted the backfill, you then pour the slab against the precast part. If free atop, under push the eccentrical on-the ground slab will tray to accompany rotation of the hear of the wall outwards, then partly loosing support at the free tip.

Hence the main rebar seems to be the transversal, atop, but I would detail it as a tie or beam, top and bottom plus stirrups.

Then any flexural effect passed to the wall needs be met in the precast part.

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