TY - GEN
T1 - Performance expectations of early 20th century urban American building foundations
AU - Laefer, Debra
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Foundation reuse is a tricky business at the best of times. For structures predating the mid-20th century, the challenge is exacerbated by the presence of a variety of foundation types, techniques and materials no longer in current usage, such as lime-based mortar. Accordingly, the modern engineer is presented with the difficulty of making decisions about assessment and intervention strategies for construction systems, geometries, and methods for which there is no applicable current building code or easily accessible textbook. As foundation reuse, particularly of early 20th century urban buildings, gains in popularity, accessing such information will only gain in criticality. This paper was designed to help amalgamate such information and provide upper limits regarding performance expectations of such foundations based on the building codes, practices and testing data of the early 1900s, with a typical upper compressive strength of lOMPa for hard brick in lime. Copyright ASCE 2008.
AB - Foundation reuse is a tricky business at the best of times. For structures predating the mid-20th century, the challenge is exacerbated by the presence of a variety of foundation types, techniques and materials no longer in current usage, such as lime-based mortar. Accordingly, the modern engineer is presented with the difficulty of making decisions about assessment and intervention strategies for construction systems, geometries, and methods for which there is no applicable current building code or easily accessible textbook. As foundation reuse, particularly of early 20th century urban buildings, gains in popularity, accessing such information will only gain in criticality. This paper was designed to help amalgamate such information and provide upper limits regarding performance expectations of such foundations based on the building codes, practices and testing data of the early 1900s, with a typical upper compressive strength of lOMPa for hard brick in lime. Copyright ASCE 2008.
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U2 - 10.1061/40971(310)120
DO - 10.1061/40971(310)120
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:66549093517
SN - 9780784409718
T3 - Geotechnical Special Publication
SP - 960
EP - 967
BT - Proceedings of session of GeoCongress 2008 - GeoCongress 2008
T2 - GeoCongress 2008: Geosustainability and Geohazard Mitigation
Y2 - 9 March 2008 through 12 March 2008
ER -