Cracks in Structures Due to

Foundation Settlement

Krikar Muhammad Gharrib

Outline Introduction

Foundation settlement

How foundation settlement can affect structures

Monitoring and improvement

Conclusion

Introduction

What is crack?

Foundation Settlement

Foundation

Settlement

(Geoconsult 2012)

How Foundation Settlement can affect structures

Uniform Settlement

(Stephenson, R. W. 2001)

How Foundation Settlement can affect structures

Differential Settlement

(Geoconsult 2012)

(Stephenson, R. W. 2001:2.79)

(Stephenson, R. W. 2001)

Monitoring and improvement

Foundation movement monitoring

Measuring changes in crack width

(Ladyada 2012)

Measuring changes in the

inclination of the building

Monitoring and improvement

Site soil improvement

Grouting

(University of Washington 2012)

Conclusion

Damaging buildings

Foundation monitoring

Site soil need to be improved

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Building Movement. Coventry: RICS Business Services Limited

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Ladyada (2012) Caliper tutorial [online] available from <http://www.ladyada.net/learn/calipers/ > [01 June 2012]

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/learn/calipers/ > [01 June 2012

Geoconsult (2012)Geotechnical consultants [online]available from <http: //www .geoconsult.co.nz/

Stephenson, R. W. (2001) ‘Shallow Foundations’. In Practical foundation engineering handbook. ed. by Brown R. W. New York: McGraw-Hill

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