Site walls and Frost Protection
Site walls and Frost Protection
(OP)
This is a questions that I have struggled with and I'm sure I will get a bunch of different answers.
I have a client who need me to design a cantilever retaining wall to support a roadway he is building (it is a road into a shopping plaza and will be subjected to trucking). The question I have is whether or not to provide frost protection on this wall. I am guessing that I should, but this will make the wall pretty tall in some areas and with the traffic surcharge (2' of equivalent dirt) it will make things even more difficult. Opinions?
I have a client who need me to design a cantilever retaining wall to support a roadway he is building (it is a road into a shopping plaza and will be subjected to trucking). The question I have is whether or not to provide frost protection on this wall. I am guessing that I should, but this will make the wall pretty tall in some areas and with the traffic surcharge (2' of equivalent dirt) it will make things even more difficult. Opinions?






RE: Site walls and Frost Protection
RE: Site walls and Frost Protection
When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-R. Buckminster Fuller
RE: Site walls and Frost Protection
And timber not wood, as so stated by my materials testing prof who was British!