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    vibrating rod or tampering rod

    What is accurate? Will a 4" cube sample yield results similar to those of a 6" x 12" cylinder? The ASTM standard and the ACI variability allowances are based on a tampering rod. So why even bother. Cost savings? Agree w/ soilsguy. Beware of the hype of new technologies; they are not always what...
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    ACI minimum area of steel

    271828, Sure: ACI 10.5 - Minimum reinforcement of flexural members ACI 10.5.4 - For structural slabs and footings of uniform thickness, As,min in the direction of the span shall be the same as that required by 7.12. If you would not split the As,min required by 10.5.1, 10.5.2 and 10.5.3, why...
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    ACI minimum area of steel

    Clansman, I guess this thread will not die. 271828, All the steel needs to be on the tension face if your are designing for flex. steel. If desinging for T&S, then it can be distributed. It is not like asking 100 people about Bin Laden. Most people have no factual data or experience in what...
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    ACI minimum area of steel

    Because I am now one more person who agrees with the definition described by Taro; thus the probabilities that he is correct have increased. :)
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    ACI minimum area of steel

    Taro, I was wrong about the 0.0018bh. Completely agree w/ you that it should be used as min flex reinforcement for slabs and footings. So folks, please listen to Taro. UcfSE, what do you propose the 3 in 3?(f'c)/fy should be? In my derivation of 3?(f'c)/fy, I assumed a fr of 12*fc^0.5.
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    Shear tie splices

    I am no foundation mat expert, but 12 ft??? No one considered to use a different type of foundation after seeing this number. Are you talking about ties to transfer the shear between horizontal cold joints?
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    Pile Uplift

    Is your geotech engineer "old school?" No ofense to the old-schoolers out there. I am not an expert on piles and am also a relatively young engineer, but think that the 20% may have been commonly used in the past as a "guesstimate." Chin et al. (1973) noted that shaft resistance from uplift load...
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    ACI minimum area of steel

    271828, That is correct. I think it is important to reiterate that these are two completely different requirements. 0.0018*b*h is a T&S requirement for stresses perpendicular to the main flexural reinforcement. For example, this applies to one-way slabs in the long direction. The main flexural...
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    ACI minimum area of steel

    StructuralEIT, I do not disagree. I was just explaining the reasoning behind the minimum requirement and how the equations were developed as it appears to be confusing some folks. 10.5.3 is very straightforward and I did not feel the need to explain it, but thanks for mentioning it as I can see...
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    ACI minimum area of steel

    Ok. 10.5.4 applies to slabs and footings, and in this case pile caps as well. The minimum reinforcement of flexural members requirement is for every tension face and shall not be distributed on the cross section. Hypothetically, if you have a member with 10 sides, and these sides can all be in...
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    Vibrations:Reinforced Concrete

    The strength of the concrete is a function of the material properties.
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    Dynamic Cone Penetrometer for Foundation Design

    BigH, thanks. I will check those other threads. The DCP in question is a 1-3/8"diam rod with a 45deg cone point and a 15 lb steel ring weight falling 20" on an E-rod slided drive.
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    Dynamic Cone Penetrometer for Foundation Design

    Have any of you, with experience working in a geotechnical testing agency, developed correlations for the soils in your area between the DCP and soil properties or between DCP and any other penetration test (i.e. SPT)? I always thought of the DCP as a method for pavement analysis/design and for...
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    Foundation design for Biaxial Momoent

    Your equivalent footing (in contact with soil) will be: B'xL', where B'=B-2eb, L'=L-2el, eb=Mb/P (Mb=moment in the B direction) and el=Ml/P (Ml=moment in the L direction). The equivalent bearing pressure will then be: (P+Wf)/B'L'. You will also need to use the B' and L' values in your bearing...
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    Removal of bays of 2 way floor slabs

    Also, is this a flat plate/slab or are there beams at the column lines? If there are beams, then you need to calculate the torsion in the beams created by the unbalanced moment at the discontinued slab sections. If it is a flat plate/slab, the unbalanced moment will be resisted through shear and...
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