I need to design a drilled pier and grade beam foundation for a 1,000sf single family home. I have a soils report that provides the allowable skin friction which I will use to determine the minimum depth to support vertical loads (toe bearing is being ignored). To determine the minimum depth required to resist lateral loads I would like to use the constrained formulas provided for the design of embedded posts found in IBC 1807.3. My question is...is this an acceptable method of determining lateral load capacity for this type of foundation?
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Lateral Load on Drilled Pier and Grade Beam Foundation
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