Hi, I am looking online and cannot find an answer or direction. I am from California and use Caltrans Road Design. How do I design a pavement without a subbase? I am designing an access road that will really only have at most 2-3 HS-10 trucks on it daily. My coworker said with that low traffic I...
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I am designing a Flexible and Rigid Pavement of an access road where an HS-16 truck will access it maybe 2-3 times a day only so very low traffic. It is just an access road going to a fish release site so its a Fish Tank truck. This is in California btw.
1) If I get a...
Hi, I have an electrical panel that is attached to the ground and is just elevated by some HSS so the weight of the panel is greater than the HSS. According to ASCE 7-22 13.2.9, if the effective seismic weight of the nonstructural component (panel) is more than 20% of the combined nonstructural...
I am designing a pile that is on a river that is just carrying some pipes. There is a whole new ASCE 7-22 Supplement 2 which goes deep on computing flood loads. My question is how to apply the hydrodynamic drag force? I am thinking it should be the whole height submerged on the water but the...
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I am checking a 30'x30'x2' footing/slab on grade for a transformer and basically the designer gave me a calc. The minimum S&T 0.0018Ag, he distributed it on half on top and half on bottom which is correct, but since there is Overturning moment due to the center of gravity of the transformer...
