bones206
I have been sidetracked from this project a good bit in the past couple of weeks. I am just getting back into the thick of things, and have taken a look at your example calc. I see that you check for the moment/bending in your example, but I was wondering if you take tension into...
Sorry if I went off on a tangent. Maybe the Sd will make more sense to me as I get more design experience applying it. At first glance, it just seems that in the same section that Sd is defined (9.2.6), the commentary provides a work-around.
Thank you bones206. I will take a look.
Thanks for the input JLNJ.
I think I am seeing the 9.2.6 requirements as more of an allowable stress/service-level check now after seeing how the commentary explains that the Sd pretty much eliminates the effects of code prescribed load and resistance/phi factors.
For example, in JLNJ's...
Thanks JAE. I thought that was the part you may have been referring to. In that commentary, prior to providing the two-step procedure, it states that: "where the environmental durability factor is applicable in these types of sections, the following design procedure will achieve the same...
I am working on my first concrete tank design and using ACI 350-06 for the first time. I am working on the wall flexure design checks, and I thought I understood how to correctly determine/apply the Sd factor. However, I am a bit confused after looking back at this old thread from 2010...
