SHEAR DESIGN of Pile Caps According to Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute
A pile cap (Figure 1) is a stocky reinforced structure which spreads and distributes the load from acolumn or bridge pier downwards into supporting piles. Unlike standard deep beams, pile caps arerelatively wide, with a width comparable to their span, contain relatively low reinforcement and inparticular normally no transverse shear reinforcement [1].Discrepancies exist in the […]
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