The ISGS has prepared this publication in order to provide information to Illinois homeowners concerned with or experiencing subsidence problems associated with past mining activity. Common damages and problems associated with subsidence are described. Some ...

Masonry houses with good structural performance may be constructed by appropriate construction procedures, good structural detailing and good quality control. This guide has been divided in fourteen sections following the construction procedure. Structural ...

The purpose of developing these guidelines is to provide technically soundanalytical tools and acceptable assessment criteria for the seismic evaluation of stone-masonry structures.

This report sought to answer the question: does the vertical component of ground motion constitute a significant proportion of the loading that has to be resisted by a building and by its foundations. It concentrates on ground motion in the near-field where ...

<p>An analysis of a case history of settlement damage to a masonry building, due to the construction of a nearby shaft, is presented. Three-dimensional finite element analysis is used, in which the non-linear behavior of both the soil (a heavily overconsolidated ...

A procedure for modelling incremental excavation using finite elements is discussed here in detail. A three dimensional finite element analysis of an unlined tunnel under a greenfield site using a simple constitutive model for the soil is used to illustrate ...