Hi,
I'm currently undertaking preliminary soil nail design and I am using both HA 68/94 and CIRIA 637. Unfortunately CIRIA 637 does not explain very well the use of "gamma p" [sorry can't insert symbols!]. Equations 8.3 and 8.4 show that by using "gamma p" we are factoring UP the pull out...
Hi I am new to this so bear with me.
My company has been asked to look at the possibility of designing wind farms on an infilled open cast coal mine. Approximately 100m of granular backfill has been used and we have been informed that the fill has been compacted in 3m layers (unlikely)...