Location
New York, New York
Date
16 Apr 2004, 4:30pm - 6:30pm
Abstract
Vibrations generated during construction often affect adjacent and surrounding buildings and disturb neighboring residents in tightly spaced urban environments. These vibrations can lead to structural damage, especially to older structures. In Charleston, South Carolina, construction vibrations are of special concern due to the tight spacing, age, construction, and historic significance of many of the city’s buildings. Of particular interest are the vibrations generated from pile driving activities. Due to the nature of the lower coastal plain soils in the Charleston, SC area, the majority of new commercial structures are being founded on driven pile foundations bearing within the underlying Cooper Marl Formation. This paper presents the development of vibration threshold levels for both historic and modern structures in Charleston, SC and the case histories of five construction projects in which the developed criteria was used. Vibration data, pre and post-construction surveys, and crack monitoring device data collected during these construction projects were then analyzed to evaluate the vibration criteria.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
5th Conference of the International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering
Publisher
University of Missouri--Rolla
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 2004 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
Hajduk, Edward L.; Ledford, Donovan L.; and Wright, William B., "Construction Vibration Monitoring in the Charleston, South Carolina Area" (2004). International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering. 3.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icchge/5icchge/session04/3
Construction Vibration Monitoring in the Charleston, South Carolina Area
New York, New York
Vibrations generated during construction often affect adjacent and surrounding buildings and disturb neighboring residents in tightly spaced urban environments. These vibrations can lead to structural damage, especially to older structures. In Charleston, South Carolina, construction vibrations are of special concern due to the tight spacing, age, construction, and historic significance of many of the city’s buildings. Of particular interest are the vibrations generated from pile driving activities. Due to the nature of the lower coastal plain soils in the Charleston, SC area, the majority of new commercial structures are being founded on driven pile foundations bearing within the underlying Cooper Marl Formation. This paper presents the development of vibration threshold levels for both historic and modern structures in Charleston, SC and the case histories of five construction projects in which the developed criteria was used. Vibration data, pre and post-construction surveys, and crack monitoring device data collected during these construction projects were then analyzed to evaluate the vibration criteria.
