If you have a flat slab, and you are checking punching shear. you have made a FEA model of the slab, and you see there is a peak shear force. 8 times larger than the average along the perimeter. do you design for the average or the peak? will some sort of redistribution occur?
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I have pile cap, huge pile cap 88.4m by 28.4m 7m deep. 28 2.5m diameter piles at 7.5 m spacing. the 1.5d perimeter encloses 4 piles! does that mean i include the 4 pile loads in the punching shear check. or should i just include the one pile, and the shear stress at 1.5d is just due to the...