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    Two sided Soldier Pile Lagging Wall

    In your first stage, when you install the wood lagging, block it (with short, cut off pieces of lagging) snuggly to the rear flanges of the soldier beams. Note that this can reduce the lateral support of the soldier beam and adversely affect the allowable bending stress of the beams. When you...
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    Drilled Pier Frost Heave

    ChiEngr, I assume that the drilled pier would be embedded much deeper than the 3.5 foot frost depth. Therefore, the pier's surface area below the frost depth should be several times greater than the surface area within the frost depth. The embedment length below the frost depth could have an...
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    Grouting top course of CMU wall with

    I don't see any way of "drypacking" the top course of blocks. There is not any room to ram a damp sand/cement (drypack) mixture inside the top blocks. Why not just fill with grout?
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    Gravity Wall Design Question

    Yes, if you use the Coulomb equations without wall friction.
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    Gravity Wall Design Question

    Coulomb earth pressure coefficients can also address any sloping behind and in front of the wall. Rankine cannot.
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    Underpinning in sand

    Sketches of new and proposed construction would be helpful.
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    Interesting Footing retrofitting situation - Extending Existing retaining wall pier foundation under earth

    There may be more to this problem than was indicated. How does the wall retain 20 feet of soil with only the small wall footing shown in Section 2-2? How many column footings need to be made larger? What is the column spacing?
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    Micropile Grout Compressive Strength

    Most inconsistent grout strength issues I see are with the sampling, varying mold sizes and shapes, storage on site, transportation, and test specimen prep. When I have low grout tests, I check the micropile design for the lower strength. Often I design for a lower grout strength but still...
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    Sheet pile wall design with soil springs

    Looking at this briefly, I would look at Model A and consider sheet piling with toe pins drilled into bedrock or a combi-wall of beams drilled into rock with sheets driven to rock. The toe pins or drilled-in combi-wall beams would provide passive resistance.
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    Frost line consideration for walkout basement

    A different problem: Will there be a floor drain at the bottom of the steps to prevent water from running into the basement? www.PeirceEngineering.com
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    Sheet pile wall design with soil springs

    I would be interested in seeing a typical soil boring and the geotech report's recommended soil properties. What is the height of retained soil? Where is groundwater? Any surcharge loads behind the wall? Are you applying safety factor(s) to the soil properties or to the calculated embedment...
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    How to make this wall work with the cramped space?

    Not enough information given. WARNING: 8.5' excavation with an adjacent structure! Existing structure? Existing footing depth? Underpinning required? www.PeirceEngineering.com
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    Earth Pressure

    https://www.google.com/search?q=at-rest+earth+pressure+coefficient+for+normally+consolidated+clay&rlz=1C1GCEA_enUS1023US1023&oq=at-rest+earth+pressure+coefficient+for+normally+consolidated+clay&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOdIBCjMwNzY0ajBqMTWoAgiwAgE&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...
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    Strut Preloading Lock Off Load

    I have no idea what that means. www.PeirceEngineering.com
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    Strut Preloading Lock Off Load

    Rarely have I ever had to pre-load internal braces. However, see attached PDF. www.PeirceEngineering.comhttps://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=662eaf5f-d181-4d68-bca4-616074c26fb7&file=FHWA_Brace_Preloading.pdf
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