This steel is usually found about one foot up from the bottom of the foundation wall and a foot down from the top.
Concrete knee wall foundation.
Instead of the floor framing bearing on the foundation wall there is a knee wall built usually about 2 or so tall then the floor framing bears on the knee wall.
Usually the foundation wall is about 4 0 tall 8 wide with an 18 wide footing.
Height vertical thickness of the concrete footing.
It s best to pour the concrete footings thick when building mortared stone walls.
A hinge is formed at the bottom of the knee wall top of foundation wall.
Concrete masonry is well suited for below grade applications because of its strength durability economy and resistance to fire insects and noise.
If you re building a really big wall pour them even thicker taller because the concrete footing will need to support more weight.
Concrete strength al ൯ne for an 10 thick wall with 5 10 and 2 5 clear to strength steel will only reduce the nominal moment capacity of the secti對on from 136 68 to 135 66 inch kips 尩 if the concrete strength decreased from 3 5 to 3 0 ksi.
You can strengthen poured concrete and concrete block walls by including reinforcing steel.
Specifically you can make them at least 12 inches in height.
Often you will see horizontal steel bars placed in the lower and upper sections of poured foundation walls.