Are the people certain now that the wall will sink the same ones that were certain that the friction pile foundation wouldn’t sink?
–the diagram makes me wonder how much the building is tilting and how much it is sheering. Picture a stack of books, if you tilt it, at some point the book will start sliding. How does extra stress does the out of vertical loads compare to the stresses designed in for wind loading?
Edited to use the right word “sheering” to describe what I was talking about. I just has a senior moment and could not remember it.
