Session 01: Case Histories of Unexpected Behavior and Failure of Shallow, Deep and Other Foundations
Location
Arlington, Virginia
Date
13 Aug 2008, 5:15pm - 6:45pm
Abstract
This paper is a case study for a governmental building in a site located at Katamia zone (an extension of Great Cairo, Egypt). The site is belonging the Great Cairo Bus Station under the authority of Ministry of Transportation. It consists of two buildings and a shed for buses cleaning and lubrication. The buildings had been constructed since 15 years. However after two years of construction many cracks were noticed in the main building. Furthermore, after another few years, sever cracks had appeared in different parts of the building and the concrete water tank on the roof of same building had suffered from failure. The aim of this study is to know and examine the reasons of these cracks and damages which happened to the building, particularly the other building suffered no cracks or damages although it was built on the same soil and under the same conditions. Observation of the building movements were recorded over several years as well as soil investigation around and under the building. A structural analysis and an estimation of stresses under foundation have been calculated using a three dimensional finite element program before and after deformation. At the end of study the causes of the failure had been determined and conclusions were drawn
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
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
Osman, Emad A. M. and Salem, Suzan S. M., "Damage of Governmental Building Due to Geotechnical Properties (Case History)" (2008). International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering. 7.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icchge/6icchge/session_01/7
Damage of Governmental Building Due to Geotechnical Properties (Case History)
Arlington, Virginia
This paper is a case study for a governmental building in a site located at Katamia zone (an extension of Great Cairo, Egypt). The site is belonging the Great Cairo Bus Station under the authority of Ministry of Transportation. It consists of two buildings and a shed for buses cleaning and lubrication. The buildings had been constructed since 15 years. However after two years of construction many cracks were noticed in the main building. Furthermore, after another few years, sever cracks had appeared in different parts of the building and the concrete water tank on the roof of same building had suffered from failure. The aim of this study is to know and examine the reasons of these cracks and damages which happened to the building, particularly the other building suffered no cracks or damages although it was built on the same soil and under the same conditions. Observation of the building movements were recorded over several years as well as soil investigation around and under the building. A structural analysis and an estimation of stresses under foundation have been calculated using a three dimensional finite element program before and after deformation. At the end of study the causes of the failure had been determined and conclusions were drawn
