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Structural Failures of Buildings Caused by Volume Changes of Steel Slag

Radim Cajka, Petr Martinec
Transactions of the VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Civil Engineering Series
2011, Volume 11, Issue 2, Pages 174-182
Doi: 10.2478/v10160-011-0037-4
The paper deals with structural failures of buildings caused by volume changes of steel slag in subsoil of hospital in Ostrava-Poruba. The building consists of a monolithic reinforced concrete frame structure with floor slabs on slag sub-base. Latest measured increases in deformations show that the slag swelling in the sub-soil continues, and as the measured dependences show, there is no stabilization of the movement.
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