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Keywords
Foundation,
Tilted,
Existing,
Strengthening,
Shear wall
Some of the important causes of damage and collapse in concrete building can be
classified under general causes to facilitate analysis. These causes are overstress,
bad design, faulty construction, foundation failure, unexpected failure modes and
combination of causes. In the present work, a case study of an existing building
under construction found around Cairo greater area is presented. Methods of
strengthening the existing foundation of the buildings to resist lateral and vertical
loads are presented. The building consists of a basement, ground floor, and 11
typical floors. The building has been tilted to one side more than 10%. However,
the inclination is due to the fact that the foundation design was incorrect. The
thickness of raft was 0.95 meters while the required one should be 1.30 meter. In
addition, there is a great eccentricity on the raft due to lake of raft design that
makes the stresses on soil reaches 5 kg/cm2 at some areas while the allowable is 1.5
kg/cm2. The increasing area and thickness as well as strengthening of the existing
raft foundation are presented. In addition, new reinforced concrete shear walls
inside the building connected to the foundations are chosen for strengthening the
existing structure to resist lateral forces.
Introduction
There are many reasons to evaluate the
structural safety and overall serviceability of
existing building. Evaluation and repair of
those buildings are also necessary because
those buildings must meet cases as
exceeding their design reference period,
change in occupancy and bad design.
outstanding
historic
buildings.
The
methodology for assessing the safety and
resistance of historic buildings was
proposed. The evaluation and repair of
several historic buildings in the Shanghai
Band area were introduced.
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