Are you permitted to have just a single layer of reinforcing at the boundary elements. The code requires confinement steel if compression exists. So providing confinement is really not possible with just 1 layer of reinforcing. I believe you must always have 2 layers with confinement ties. Does...
Looking for advice on how to best design a cantilever retaining wall with a foundation up high on the retained side. The load is a strip load that is perpendicular to the wall. Text books provide guidance for when the loading is isolated or parallel with the wall.
I have a very typical situation but cannot find any good practical information on design. I have a spandrel beam at a stair tower that must support a brick facade which is eccentric to the beam. With the opening from the stairwell there is no place to install bracing to counter the torsion. So I...
