Snaps to BigH!

Howard's letter to ASCE's Civil Engineering magazine's editors was published in this month's issue. In particular, Howard points out that floating raft foundations, while a good solution for the project under discussion (from an article published in a previous issue), are by no means "innovative", as claimed in the previous issue. To wit, Howard provides quite a good bibliography of texts that discuss this type of foundation. Many of the references will no doubt be familiar to frequent readers of BigH's posts on EngTips.

Jeff

 

[SlideRuleEra]

Well written, BigH.

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[PEinc]

I read that letter but didn't realize it was by BigH. Excellent, BigH. You know your stuff!

 

[MRM]

Good job, BigH!

 

[emmgjld]

I also did not recognize the author.
Very Good!!

 

[Mccoy]

BigH, can you attach a copy of your letter or insert the text here?

 

[BigH]

I think that you can "attach" the file as a picture file by linking to a web page. SRE? Can I send the picture file for you and you attach?

Cheers - and thanks to all.

 

[SlideRuleEra]

Thanks to the magic of modern technology... here it is

http://www.slideruleera.net/CE-Letter-May07.pdf

http://www.SlideRuleEra.net

 

[BigHarvey]

Thank you SlideRuleEra for allowing us from other continents to have the opportunity to appreciate this nice article from BigH.
It is sad to see that nowadays simple ( and forgotten )foundations solutions can be shown as innovations.
I see more and more projects in France that couls be built on shallow foundations and eventually get piled. That is obviously not satisfactory for an engineer but I believe it is mainly a question of liability for SI contractors which conclusions are not questioned then also for questions of liability. Fortunately we live in rich countries ! It's good anyway to see sometimes well-engineered projects and see that some people can still appreciate it !