I would call AB slang; if it doesn't have an ASTM or local DOT it means different thing to different people has been my experience.
Remember water vapor can travel upward nicely through free draining material.
I have done most of my work in the Midwest so I have never seen a site that has no...
cvg I think we agree. The fine clean sand that moves I would call beach sand in the field. Our local road gravel spec allows up to 60% sand (finer than #4 screen) so I call it sand.
Anyway back to the original question about the AB vapor barrier. Didn't the old BOCA code allow AB instead of...
I have spent some time with these problems for small to medium retail construction.
Here are my random thoughts on the subject.
I think that owners are getting conflicting info and current specs sometimes show this.
Owners who have dealt with there floor coverings not sticking are willing to...
I sent an email to the University of Toronto.
Thank you for your help. Most years I visit family over labor day near Niagara Falls and would drive very close to Toronto.
I read in another Eng-Tips forum that "There is a great paper from 24th Annual Symposium on Engineering Geology & Soils Engineering called "Dynamic CPT for Test-Pit Field Investigations: Experiences with Sowers' Cone Penetrometer" by L.E. Robinson that provides several equations to correlate...
In ACI 360 reference 25) is Walker, Cragg "Heavily Loaded Floor Slabs Placed on Topsoil - A Case Study Engineering Digest of Canada. I have looked all over for this article does anyone know were I could get a copy of this ?
That is good for a laugh DarthSoilsGuy.
I have been down that road before.
We like to use the 4 X 8 's but half the time we don't get the spec until the job is half over or there is a problem.
