I am able to develop the pile bars into the cap. It was more of a concern (or myself overthinking) that if I extend the pile bars to the top mat for tension/ flexural purposes that I will be impacting how the compression load is distributed into the cap. Ideally, the compression load from the...
Hi All,
I currently have a 16" pipe pile coming in to a 6' deep pile cap with the bottom reinforcement placed on top of the imbedded pile (See attached for sketch). This pile will see mostly compression and tension loads. I am thinking about running the pile reinforcement as close as possible...
