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LRFD Geotech Report

Thread starter ztengguy
Start date Mar 28, 2013

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Mar 28, 2013

ztengguy

Structural

When providing guidance on foundation design for LRFD, do you provide a Interface friction angle or do you provide a coefficient of sliding resistance?
Also for the sliding resistance factor, how do you get a value of 1? Isnt the idea to be a factore to reduce the value?

Thanks