Continue to Site

Eng-Tips is the largest engineering community on the Internet

Intelligent Work Forums for Engineering Professionals

  • Congratulations cowski on being selected by the Eng-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Historic Concrete Strength ASCE 41

Status
Not open for further replies.

Corey7320

Structural
Jun 23, 2006
41
I am working on a seismic retrofit of 1930s-1940s era concrete buildings for the Dept of Veterans Affairs (VA). We have the original construction drawings but they only refer to Type C and Type B concrete. We are doing material testing but ASCE 41 dictates different amount of testing required depending on if you know the original design strength or not. It also plays into the knowledge factor used i beleive.

Is the Type C or B designation a standard from the time period or a standard for the VA at that time?

I have not been able to find reference to any documents that may have dictated the VA construction practices of the time like they now have
 
Replies continue below

Recommended for you

Status
Not open for further replies.

Part and Inventory Search

Sponsor