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Foundation Design and Resisting Uplift

Foundation Design and Resisting Uplift

Foundation Design and Resisting Uplift

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I am designing a foundation for a metal building.  I have a frame load but I am considering using the collateral gravity load to resist uplift as well.  I am not sure I should??

RE: Foundation Design and Resisting Uplift

Meet the service load combination of 0.6D + W

RE: Foundation Design and Resisting Uplift

Only include permanent loads to resist uplift.

RE: Foundation Design and Resisting Uplift

Been designing these foundations for 30 years and not one has ever failed by using the dead load of the structure.

No worries here...

Mike McCann
McCann Engineering

RE: Foundation Design and Resisting Uplift

Isnt the collateral load classified as an additional live load?  I have seen it used on metal buildings a lot lately with not much explanation.

RE: Foundation Design and Resisting Uplift

What happens when the collateral load isnt installed, doesn't that present a problem?

RE: Foundation Design and Resisting Uplift

The last one I did, collateral load was used for permanently attached mechcanical/electrical equipment.

Permanently attached seems to fall under dead load.

Didn't the building supplier provide reactions?

RE: Foundation Design and Resisting Uplift

If I have a combined footing, (actually a small mat, like 24x36) and in my model it has a handful of springs which show some small uplift, less than weight of foundation, not included, but 95% of the foundation is in compression with the soil, is this acceptable?

It's hard for me to wrap my head around so many load combinations and having to design a combined footing for 10 columns or so, and making sure it survives even distribution every time, since the loads on the columns change, so does the  center of load, and then I have to modify the size of the foundation, when does this end?

Thanks.

RC
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