I'm working on a project with a few elevator sump basins that are much lower than adjacent foundation work. In lieu of dropping the adjacent footings below the basin does anyone have experience with having the basin be designed for foundation pressures?
I'm working on a fairly large concrete wide-module framed building in the US. Falls under the IBC and it's a SDC A structure. For typical interior beams of substantial width, including lateral beams, why would one use stirrups with 90 degree hooks rather than just using stirrups with 135 degree...
We did the structural design of a building where rammed aggregate piers were used to provide a better soil bearing pressure. In addition, at the lateral bracing locations, they were required to provide some uplift resistance.
The rammed aggregate pier submittal came through with notes about the...
The only thing I could find regarding the question was a topic of the discussion in Salmon and Johnson's Steel Structures book. To dictate a shop weld, the authors indicate a note in the tail specifically stating the weld is to be a shop weld...otherwise the weld isn't specificaly stated as one...
