Detailing Concepts of capping beam & Lining walls
Detailing Concepts of capping beam & Lining walls What is capping beam? 1 Capping beam is constructed over pile walls i.e. secant, contiguous and sheet pile. 2 To distribute the loads from vertical elements to pile wall. 3 Can resist lateral loads along with piled walls or can just be a cap of piled walls. 4 Can act as boundary of site. Capping beam. Detailers should know the following things before they start to detail a capping beam. 1 Construction sequence (or) type construction i.e. Top down / Bottom Up. 2 Connectivity between capping beam and adjacent elements like lining walls. 3 Details at pile cut-off level if it is sheet pile. 4The bottom cover should be equal or greater than pile cut off . 5The main rebar (i.e. top and bottom) can be detailed for stock length and lapped. Unless the capping beam is designed specially for any site conditions. If there are any planted columns/walls that need to be considered. 6 Sometimes t...