Friday, May 30, 2008

Re: Protection of Drain Pipe Under Mat Foundation

Please do accept many appologies. I mean no offense. I want to say that to visualize 200 tons of masonry water fountain. Which also cause extreme earthquake overturn loadings. I was hoping you to explain such fountain with massive off center loads. My questions were only meant to provoke the beginning dialogue of this fountain design.

On 5/30/08, Bill Allen <t.w.allen@cox.net> wrote:

D E –

 

It's not a uniform pressure; it's a trapezoidal pressure.

 

I've been doing this a long time. Don't worry; the numbers are right.

 

Regards,

 

T. William (Bill) Allen, S.E.

ALLEN DESIGNS

Consulting Structural Engineers
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: D E [mailto:struktur.dle@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 1:37 PM
To:
seaint@seaint.org

Subject: Re: Protection of Drain Pipe Under Mat Foundation

 

Sounds like your soils allowables are close to, if not over, the limit. I just wanted to point out that a 29'x22.5' map with a 700psf soil pressure gives a weight of cmu of 29'x22.5'x700psf=456,000 lbs of masonry. That is a lot of masonry. The 1300psf under lateral seems really high too. Things to check: What is your weight of masonry? What is the vertical center of gravity of cmu? what is your allowable base shear coefficient?