Location
Arlington, Virginia
Date
15 Aug 2008, 11:00am - 12:30pm
Abstract
The Lezha town has a very complicate geology, high underground water table and high seismicity. Near of eight floors building was constructed a new building with two underground stories. The retaining structures at the time of excavation to the undergo damage to cause the serious problems on the existing building. In these paper I, would like to present the analyses of phenomena and the engineering measures for rehabilitation of situation. The most dangerous phenomena in the studied area were suffusion problems. From these phenomena the existing eight stories buildings underwent the differential settlement, which arrived near the limit value of settlements. The engineering measures consist of on creation of the concrete wall obstructive for the movement underground water and reconstruction of existing concrete wall to arrive rehabilitation of the situation.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
6th Conference of the International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering
Publisher
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 2008 Missouri University of Science and Technology, All rights reserved.
Creative Commons Licensing
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Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
File Type
text
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Bozo, Luljeta, "Failure of Retaining Structures in Town Lezha and their Consequence in Neighbouring Building" (2008). International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering. 13.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icchge/6icchge/session05/13
Failure of Retaining Structures in Town Lezha and their Consequence in Neighbouring Building
Arlington, Virginia
The Lezha town has a very complicate geology, high underground water table and high seismicity. Near of eight floors building was constructed a new building with two underground stories. The retaining structures at the time of excavation to the undergo damage to cause the serious problems on the existing building. In these paper I, would like to present the analyses of phenomena and the engineering measures for rehabilitation of situation. The most dangerous phenomena in the studied area were suffusion problems. From these phenomena the existing eight stories buildings underwent the differential settlement, which arrived near the limit value of settlements. The engineering measures consist of on creation of the concrete wall obstructive for the movement underground water and reconstruction of existing concrete wall to arrive rehabilitation of the situation.
