Hi friends, Today, we'll learn how to verify and design piles caps with the strut & and tie method, which we introduced 2 months ago. Pile caps are used to transfer point loads from columns to piles. The number of piles used and the geometry of the pile cap depends on the magnitude of the load from the column. In the image below, you see an example of a pile cap with 4 piles. The strut & tie model of this pile cap with a vertical load from the column in a 2d section has 2 struts transferring...