- Author
- Kovacs, W. D. | Yokel, F. Y.
- Title
- Soil and Rock Anchors for Mobile Homes: A State-of-the-Art Report.
- Coporate
- Purdue Univ., Lafayette, IN National Bureau of Standards, Washington, DC
- Sponsor
- Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, DC
- Report
- NBS BSS 107, October 1979,
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Keywords
- residential buildings; trailers; anchors (structures); soil mechanics; soil classifications; wind (meteorology); loads (forces); reviews | trailers | anchors | mobile homes
- Identifiers
- soil anchors; state of the art
- Abstract
- Available anchor hardware is surveyed and evaluated and pull-out capacity data are compared with hypotheses for predicting anchor pull-out capacity based on soil mechanics principles. The evidence suggests that our ability to predict anchor pull-out capacity by soil mechanics principles is inadequate, and that there is a need for the standardization of test procedures and soil classification and for further test data. Suggestions for future research are presented.