Analysis of post in soil
Analysis of post in soil
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Hello,
First time posting here.
I have a project where I need to design guardrail post to withstand 1.5 times hurricane force winds or about 100 psf. It is no problem to analyze the post and guardrail i itself, but the problem is the post has actually been pushed over slightly by this large force in the past.
I have not dug down to see how deep the previous post was, yet. My question is how can I analyse the soil to ensure that it is strong enough to keep the post in place? Is it as simple as using the shear strength of the soil and modeling as a simple statics problem? Sorry if this is confusing.
First time posting here.
I have a project where I need to design guardrail post to withstand 1.5 times hurricane force winds or about 100 psf. It is no problem to analyze the post and guardrail i itself, but the problem is the post has actually been pushed over slightly by this large force in the past.
I have not dug down to see how deep the previous post was, yet. My question is how can I analyse the soil to ensure that it is strong enough to keep the post in place? Is it as simple as using the shear strength of the soil and modeling as a simple statics problem? Sorry if this is confusing.






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