Mobile home basements
Mobile home basements
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I'm a small town PE. I've been asked to design basements for several Mobile Homes. These have nine foot walls. There is approximately eight vertical feet from the interior slab to the outside grade elevation. Soil is coarse sand & gravel. Does anyone know of any publications that wlll assist me in this.





RE: Mobile home basements
2. if it is supported by the floor of the structure you can design the wall as a simple concrete beam. usually using an equvalent fluid preassure of about 50 pounds per cubic foot
3. if you don't to do the calcs the internation building code 1 and two family edition has prescriptive requirments.
RE: Mobile home basements
http://www.jlconline.com/cgi-local/view.pdf/8a42973df1ab3de667e78d501243cb88/www.jlconline.com/cgi-bin/jlconline.storefront/3fad53600014ff49271a401e1d2905e7
If it does not work, find Thread256-77803 and scroll to a Nov 8 post by VBI who provided the link. (I just tried it and got the article).
RE: Mobile home basements
RE: Mobile home basements
RE: Mobile home basements
RE: Mobile home basements
I heard somewhere recently that all manufactured housing design falls under federal guidelines. I don't know if this is true and I don't know if this is THE document to go by. And I doubt even more that it is enforced.
However, the two requests I had about "certifying" that foundations were designed to "code" had me wondering if they even knew what they were asking for, and which code they really meant. Was it the federal HUD code, or the IRC? Fortunately they were both no-brainers by virtue of being set freely on hollow masonry blocks with no attachment, and therefore not being compliant with any design standard or code at all.
Regards,
Miscmetals
RE: Mobile home basements
http://www.huduser.org/Publications/PDF/foundation_guide_complete.pdf