How do you all develop passive earth pressure parameters for assessing lateral resistance on the side of column (non-wall) footings? Although I often see people apply retaining wall type Kp theory, I have a problem with that for column footings (since that's based on an entire wall moving and...
Just wanted to get some impartial opinions. We design and review a lot of projects in karst limestone regions where micropiles are commonly used for foundation support. Personally, I've always been concerned with a potential failure mechanism being collapse of a group of micropiles into an...
Ok, I may be venting a little here but bear with me.
I "work" (haha) for a federal agency. We do our own geotech designs for building construction but we also review lots of AE designs. Typical project construction costs are in the 50 - 100 mil range, sometimes several hundred mil. Most...
First I'll say that I'm not trying to promote anything here. If someone has a problem with it they can red flag this. I absolutely have no association with this.....just ran across it, thought it looked great and that other geotechs would be interested.
Anyway the conference is discussed at...
I have a project for planned aboveground water storage tanks. Subsurface materials primarily consist of SP soils with decent blows (varies but typically N = 10 to 20 range). Due to the depth of the stress influence zone, anticipated settlements are several inches.
To mitigate this...
