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    Foundation design for a challenging site: old foundation wall, potential differential settlement, and unknown foundation depth

    Hi engineers, Thank you so much for advises. It all goes a little bit with the main intention I had from the begginig. Regarding the wall in Street 1, this should be addressed immediately, or at least this is going to be my indication to both the Client and also the authorities. The project...
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    Foundation design for a challenging site: old foundation wall, potential differential settlement, and unknown foundation depth

    Yep.. seem it'll be hard to discuss with the CLient as no one wants to have an increase in the initial budget but definetly this can save a lot of money in the future.. it's a complex sitation. Thanks for answering!
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    Foundation design for a challenging site: old foundation wall, potential differential settlement, and unknown foundation depth

    Dear Engineers, I want to present a problem I’ve encountered in one of our projects. We have a client planning to build a house on a plot of land. The plot is quite large, and he only intends to use half of it. The area where the house is to be built is partially covered by an old swimming...
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    Traction load in tilted piles

    Hi EireChch and SlideRuleEra, Thank you so much to both! Very interesting the publications suggested, it helped me a lot! Regards,
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    Traction load in tilted piles

    Hi Eirechch, Thank you so much for your answer, but i'm not quite sure this to be exactly the same, that's why I'm asking. I'm not an specialist in soil nails, but I guess are designed to retain the soil and not subjected to external traction loads far away from the ones produced by the own...
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    Traction load in tilted piles

    Hi engineers, I'm currently facing a project where piles are going to be tilted (B) insted of vertical (0º), and those are going to be subjected to pull out (similar to an anchorage). The piles will be directly rammed into the soil and will be steel piles. I attach an scheme for a better...
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