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Numerical Assessment of RC Building Deformations Resting on Soil Containing Voids with Various Sizes and Locations

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Last updated: 24 Dec 2024

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Civil Engineering

Abstract

Construction of reinforced concrete buildings on soils with unknown underground void locations may lead to building instability and tilting. The current study investigates the influence of the existence of underground voids on surface-reinforced concrete structures under gravity loads only. A numerical analysis using a finite element program (ANSYS) was performed to study the behavior of reinforced concrete buildings with different widths and heights. The buildings were rested on clay soil with a continuous circular void for a wide variety of void diameters and locations from the building's footing. Charts for settlements and differential settlements between footing edges for all cases were obtained to evaluate the effect of these parameters on the behavior of surface buildings. Based on the obtained results, equations for design were provided for the critical area underneath concrete structures affected by underground voids, according to the building size, void location, and diameter. These equations introduce simple tools to predict the critical void location within the variety of parameters that have been studied in this study.

DOI

10.21608/pserj.2023.226664.1254

Keywords

Underground void, critical locations, footing width, void depth, void eccentricity

Authors

First Name

Aya

Last Name

Abdel-Nasser

MiddleName

Gamal

Affiliation

Civil Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Port Said University, Port Said, Egypt.

Email

aya.gamal@eng.psu.edu.eg

City

Port Said

Orcid

0009-0005-2173-3216

First Name

Emad

Last Name

Abdel-Galil

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Professor of concrete structures, Faculty of Engineering, Port Said University, Egypt,

Email

emad0057@eng.psu.edu.eg

City

Port Said

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First Name

Ezzaat

Last Name

Sallam

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

Civil Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Port Said University

Email

ezzat.sallam@eng.psu.edu.eg

City

Port Said

Orcid

0000-0003-1073-4270

Volume

27

Article Issue

4

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44757

Issue Date

2023-12-01

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2023-08-03

Publish Date

2023-12-01

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1

Page End

15

Print ISSN

1110-6603

Online ISSN

2536-9377

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https://pserj.journals.ekb.eg/article_316967.html

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813

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Port-Said Engineering Research Journal

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https://pserj.journals.ekb.eg/

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Numerical Assessment of RC Building Deformations Resting on Soil Containing Voids with Various Sizes and Locations

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24 Dec 2024