Just wanted your thoughts on using flowable fill as backfill behind a retaining wall (actually an exterior/end building wall) . If I'm trying to avoid any water behind the wall, does flowable fill help. How would I go about calculating lateral pressures as I think there will be a reduction in...
My office design a foundation pile system in S. Carolina. We basically used the recommendations from the Geotechnical report for 75 ft piles to carry 50 tons (100kips). 2 test piles were installed and tested (dynamic testing) at 5 days after installation, with factor of safeties of 2.5 and...
