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South Clear Well Roof Collapse: Hydraulic Uplift or Excessive Construction Loading?
This paper presents a failure investigation case history of a partial roof collapse of a below-grade water storage facility during rehabilitation. The evaluation considers the original design and maintenance of the facility, rehabilitation design, and construction sequencing. The cause of the roof collapse was the failure of selected columns under approved construction equipment loading. The columns that failed were initially damaged by hydrostatic uplift of the base slab during a severe rainfall event and subsequently loaded repetitively by construction operations. Hydraulic and structural models developed during the evaluation accurately predicted the response of hydraulic systems, general crack patterns and specific crack locations; thereby confirming the failure mechanism.
South Clear Well Roof Collapse: Hydraulic Uplift or Excessive Construction Loading?
This paper presents a failure investigation case history of a partial roof collapse of a below-grade water storage facility during rehabilitation. The evaluation considers the original design and maintenance of the facility, rehabilitation design, and construction sequencing. The cause of the roof collapse was the failure of selected columns under approved construction equipment loading. The columns that failed were initially damaged by hydrostatic uplift of the base slab during a severe rainfall event and subsequently loaded repetitively by construction operations. Hydraulic and structural models developed during the evaluation accurately predicted the response of hydraulic systems, general crack patterns and specific crack locations; thereby confirming the failure mechanism.
South Clear Well Roof Collapse: Hydraulic Uplift or Excessive Construction Loading?
Roarty, Jr., C. (author) / Sivak, J. (author) / Vogel, P. (author) / Ramachandran, K. V. (author)
Fourth Forensic Engineering Congress ; 2006 ; Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Forensic Engineering (2006) ; 210-224
2006-10-03
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
South Clear Well Roof Collapse: Hydraulic Uplift or Excessive Construction Loading?
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