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Soil Weight on Basement Wall Footing
When designing a 2-foot wide basement wall footing that is supporting 12" CMU, is the weight of the soil above the 6" strip of footing that extends into the retained soil area accounted for when calculating bearing pressure? For example, a 10-foot tall basement wall supporting 10-feet of...- Mullky
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