Engineering / Discussions

How would you determine the thickness for a new construction of a slab on grade that will have only liquid forces acting down on it? Not sure what you mean by liquid forces, but a slab will perform differently depending many issues such as soil quality and bearing capacity. Slabs are most often edge loaded (where the l...

I'm not concerned with the compression issue, but rather how the lateral (shear) loads get transferred from the concrete footing into the soil, via the insulation layer.  DJB It would be a structural engineer you're looking for, and while we have a team here that deal with everything LEED & Passive House related, s...