Recently, in our office, there has been disagreement regarding the design of residential foundation walls. Does one consider these walls cantilever retaining walls or are the ends pin-pin? When floor joists are perpendicular to and bear on the wall and are attached to a wood sill plate that is...
I am designing a suspended garage slab for a residential home. There was an earlier thread (Mar 2, jjeng2) that asked about the IBC provision of 2000 lb point load vs. 50 psf uniform load. As I read 2000 IBC, Section 1607.4 states that you should compare the 2000 lb point load and the 50 psf...
