Location
St. Louis, Missouri
Date
02 Jun 1993, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Abstract
This paper presents a study of a case of severe distress happened in an administration building constructed in new desert area. Some Egyptian deserts have uncommon soil formation which is still not well known for many engineers. Due to insufficient investigations, the soil behaviour was not adequately recognized specially when it comes in contact with water. The result was inconvenient foundation system. Severe cracks and unexpected damage had happened in many parts in the building after use. The paper comprises all the carried out investigations and studies to identify the problem in order to prevent any more deterioration and adopt the most convenient remedy.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
3rd Conference of the International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering
Publisher
University of Missouri--Rolla
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 1993 University of Missouri--Rolla, All rights reserved.
Creative Commons Licensing
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
File Type
text
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Reyad, M. M., "Inconvenient Foundation System in Problematic Soil" (1993). International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering. 39.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icchge/3icchge/3icchge-session01/39
Inconvenient Foundation System in Problematic Soil
St. Louis, Missouri
This paper presents a study of a case of severe distress happened in an administration building constructed in new desert area. Some Egyptian deserts have uncommon soil formation which is still not well known for many engineers. Due to insufficient investigations, the soil behaviour was not adequately recognized specially when it comes in contact with water. The result was inconvenient foundation system. Severe cracks and unexpected damage had happened in many parts in the building after use. The paper comprises all the carried out investigations and studies to identify the problem in order to prevent any more deterioration and adopt the most convenient remedy.
