Concrete shear/retaining wall
Concrete shear/retaining wall
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Working on a multistory structure where the foundation wall acts as both a retaining wall and a shear wall. Do I design as a retaing wall first then as a shear wall? or vise versa? How does one approach the combined stresses? Thanks for your assistance.






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DaveAtkins
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Then I would tend to agree with DaveAtkins check bearing pressure due to increased pressure from shear wall and increase footing area if necessary.
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Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
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Be careful of the tension end of the shearwall (probably both ends). Depending on the amount of retaining soil and moment, the tension will redestribute the stress blocks, increasing the tension and decreasing the compression. This will increase the steel required on the tension face of the retaining wall.
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This is a beam-column situation if it has forces acting perpendicular to its surface. Basically we take a 12" section of the wall and design as for a column.
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