I am looking at options for the installation of a marine outfall. One of the options is to lay the outfall pipe in a trench, and backfill the trench with the excavated material (chalk).
I want to ensure that the backfilled material won't be eroded from the trench through wave and current...
When checking reinforced concrete columns for an existing structure, is it acceptable to use the actual deflection of the column as given from the finite element model to calculate the additional moment due to the slenderness of the column?
I am modelling a concrete jetty structure in STAAD...