I believe there are only two that are approved. They would be the Simpson Strong Bolt and the Hilti TZ Quik Bolt.
The list has indeed shrunk.
The manufacturers are not standing by. It’s expensive and time consuming to do the cracked concrete test in an outside lab for all the various conditions according to the current ICC acceptance criteria.
T. William (Bill) Allen, S.E.
Consulting Structural Engineers
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mark D. Baker [mailto:shake4bake@earthlink.net]
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 9:00 AM
To: seaint@seaint.org
Subject: ACI 318 App D, and wedge anchors
I admittedly have not dug that far into appendix D and am seeking a quick answer from those who have.
An architect told me last week that on a project where anchoring equipment to a concrete slab the plan checker advised that wedge anchors were no longer allowed by ACI 318……….can this be possible?
I can’t imagine the manufacturers of mechanical anchors ($$$$$$$$) standing by while something like this got written into code.
Mark D. Baker
Baker Engineering