Shear Wall Placement

[PEinVA]

A below grade shear wall is specified to be poured monolithically with adjacent columns on a new 5 story building. The contractor has poured 1 column separate from the wall.

What are the issues we should look at for having a cold joint here?

RC
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
Edmund Burke

 

[msquared48]

Is the horizontal wall steel continuous thrugh the joint into the column?

Mike McCann
MMC Engineering

 

[PEinVA]

Yes,
I've reviewed it using chapter 17 of the ACI 318-02 code (applicable code) and found that by roughing the concrete up, with the steel crossing the joint, it is acceptable under 17.5.

Thanks for the response.

Would you have handled it the same way?
RC

RC
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
Edmund Burke

 

[msquared48]

As long as any uplift can be transferred to the column from the shear wall, and you can justify that transfer mechanism, I have no problems with that.

Mike McCann
MMC Engineering