Continue to Site

Eng-Tips is the largest engineering community on the Internet

Intelligent Work Forums for Engineering Professionals

Congratulations cowski on being selected by the Eng-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Wine Cave design

Thread starter petrosoft
Start date Mar 25, 2007

Status: Not open for further replies.

Mar 25, 2007

petrosoft

Civil/Environmental

I have responsibility for a soils investigation and for designing the portal for a small wine cave in Napa, California. I haven't done one before and am looking for some information for design. Are there any good references for these? The soil is a CH clay-silt stone (moderately expansive). I want to tie the portal retaining wall (8' tall) back to the shotcrete cave lining using at rest pressures of 70 pcf. What kind of bearing pressures could I use for the portal wall foudation? I usually do structural design but have been working in lightweight geotechnical engineering as well.

Thanks---P