Dear Orin, depending on the vessel's weight and possible failure by tension on anchors, I suggest you go deep on the slab and reconfigure a pedestal reinforcement distribution including pre-installed anchors and then, cast concrete. Concrete compatibility is best to accomplish rather than adhesive under ...
Is it unsafe to use post installed adhesive anchors to anchor a 35 foot tall vertical vessel to an existing 16" thick concrete slab. I plan to add a 7 ft. sq.x 6" thick pedestal to the slab to make it 22" thick and use 1 1/5" bolts with 18" embedment. The calculations say it will work but I have heard ...
Use pervious concrete with turn down edges. ------------------------------ Robert Hackman P.E.,M.ASCE Senior Principal Ellicott City MD (410)960-4822 ------------------------------
Michael - the Michigan AG has gone to court against two of the engineering firms involved. Here is a recent article: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/michigan/flint-water-crisis/2019/07/16/nessel-engineering-firms-played-seminal-role-flint-water-crisis/1747221001/ ------------------------------ ...
This may be an example of LID with no benefit, or maybe the only benefit being LEED points or the parkland equivalent. Notice the large gravel beneath the walkway pavement - there is no benefit of porous asphalt on this narrow section when there is plenty of infiltration surface available beneath the ...
Sorry to post twice to the same question, but the more serious question that I have is: why didn't the regulators REQUIRE a corrosion test? ------------------------------ Bevin Beaudet P.E.,M.ASCE President/Owner Bevin A. Beaudet, P.E., LLC. West Palm Beach FL (561)373-4442 ------------------------ ...