There is a new construction house which I want to purchase. But on the basement walls, I found a long horizontal line (quite obvious) which I believe is due to different concrete pours. The line is about 25 feet long and 3 to 4 feet above basement floor. I am quite concerned about the...
There is a new construction house which I want to purchase. But on the basement walls, I found a long horizontal line (quite obvious) which I believe is due to different concrete pours. The line is about 25 feet long and 3 to 4 feet above basement floor. I am quite concerned about the...
The clay fill will be placed in 8-inch-thick lifts and compacted to 95% of the maximum dry density per Standard Proctor method. The borrowed clay material (non-organic) has medium plasticity (LL between 30 and 50). What would be the undrained shear strength (range) from this compaction? Is...
What's effect of axial load on drilled pier's lateral capacity? I used LPILE to design a 0.9m dia. drilled pier and limit the deflection to 0.5 inch. I found the lateral capacity when pier in tension is significantly less than the capacity when pier in compression (about 50% reduction)...
The project site has a design frost penetration depth of 3.7 meters. The recommended adfreeze uplift force on the sides of pile is quite large (100 kPa). I'm thinking of tar-coating the top 4.7 meters of my H-pile. Is this (tar-coating) a common practice in the cold region area? I also want to...
