Location
Arlington, Virginia
Date
14 Aug 2008, 2:15pm - 4:00pm
Abstract
The TV tower in Rousse city is the highest in the Balkan area with its 198 m height. It is built up on loess with thickness of the collapsible zone about 15-16 m. The collapsibility has been overcome by excavation deepening up to 14.50 m, dynamic compaction of the excavation bottom with 7.0 tons tamper and building of a 4.5 m soil-cement cushion. A comparison between the calculated and measured settlement and of the soil base moisture content before and after TV tower construction is presented. Geodetic measurements have been made during and after the tower construction. Several calculation methods were used for settlement prediction: Soviet building code for large-size foundations and restricted active zone, the corrected Burmister formula, the method of Kushner and the finite element method. For the load of 146 kPa of the tower, the total settlement in 2005 reached 5.75 cm. The calculated settlement using the finite element method is 6.85 cm, and according to Burmister – 6.75 cm. After 10 years of operation of the tower, increased water content was established in the backfill around it and some increasing of the facility settlement. The next measures were applied: drying of the backfill with quicklime columns, injection of cement-sand mortar in the cavities under the concrete sidewalk, repair of the water & sewerage installations, performance of new vertical planning.
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
Evstatiev, Dimcho; Evlogiev, Yordan; and Nedelcheva, Mariana, "Foundation Work of High TV Tower in Collapsible Loess" (2008). International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering. 21.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icchge/6icchge/session07/21
Foundation Work of High TV Tower in Collapsible Loess
Arlington, Virginia
The TV tower in Rousse city is the highest in the Balkan area with its 198 m height. It is built up on loess with thickness of the collapsible zone about 15-16 m. The collapsibility has been overcome by excavation deepening up to 14.50 m, dynamic compaction of the excavation bottom with 7.0 tons tamper and building of a 4.5 m soil-cement cushion. A comparison between the calculated and measured settlement and of the soil base moisture content before and after TV tower construction is presented. Geodetic measurements have been made during and after the tower construction. Several calculation methods were used for settlement prediction: Soviet building code for large-size foundations and restricted active zone, the corrected Burmister formula, the method of Kushner and the finite element method. For the load of 146 kPa of the tower, the total settlement in 2005 reached 5.75 cm. The calculated settlement using the finite element method is 6.85 cm, and according to Burmister – 6.75 cm. After 10 years of operation of the tower, increased water content was established in the backfill around it and some increasing of the facility settlement. The next measures were applied: drying of the backfill with quicklime columns, injection of cement-sand mortar in the cavities under the concrete sidewalk, repair of the water & sewerage installations, performance of new vertical planning.
