The building I'm working on has perimeter basement walls with columns "inside" the wall at every grid. What I've learned before is since the retaining walls will tend to move more than the columns when the slab shrinks, cracks will develop where the basement wall meets a column or shear wall. Im...
There are soils on all sides of the building. I can see how static soil pressures would cancel out from each side but what about seismic, since seismic loads wouldn't act at opposite directions at the same time.
Thanks, but what happens to the load after it's transferred into the diaphragm? Would I need to check the shear walls in the basement level for the additional load (Static soil and seismic soil).
I'm designing a 10' restrained basement retaining wall. The wall will be restrained by a 16" concrete slab at grade level. The building shear walls extend down to the basement level. I'm a little confused on the transfer of the soil pressures into the diaphragm as I haven't dealt with this kind...
