Thanks for the help from everyone. After running through the calculations for different scenarios and footing sizes, it becomes evident that I will have to resort to piles. The spread footing size is too large and uneconomical.
My apologies to all for posting in two locations. I did not know that the foundation engineering forum existed until I had already posted on the concrete engineering forum (I'm new to the forum). We will close this one and use the thread already started with replies on this topic in the...
austim,
My apologies for posting in two locations. I am new to the forum and did not find the foundation engineering forum until I had already posted in this one.
I understand the "middle-third" concept (Kern) to prevent the stress distribution from transfering into tension. But, I...
Thanks for your help, JedClampett.
By common sense, I seemingly understand the concept of increasing my footing size to pull back the eccentricity. I am at a loss, though, on how to make this relation in my calculations (increase in ftg size vs decrease in eccentricity). Any suggestions?
EIT needs a little help for designing a combined footing supporting two identically loaded exhaust stacks that are aligned in one direction and are 10'-0" o.c. in the other. The loading provided by the stack manufacturer has a 50k dead/live combination axial load and nearly 2000 k-ft of...
EIT needs a little help from the more experienced on how to design for a combined footing supporting two identically loaded exhaust stacks that aligned in one direction and are 10'-0" o.c. in the other. The loading provided by the stack manufacturer has a 50k dead/live combination and...
