Does anyone have any references for determining the corrosivity of the soil to reinforcing steel in Post-Tensioned Slabs to determine if encapsulating the tendons is necessary? I believe CalTrans has their limit at 500 ppm of chlorides. I also believe that soil moisture contents below 17.5...
Anybody know exactly how structural engineers interpret a allowable bearing capacity from a geotech?
It really is whatever the geotech report says, in my case, the allowable bearing pressure (for shallow footings) is dead load plus design live load (or: dead load as is + (design factor)x(live...
