Soil-related damage to tilt-up structures

Practice Periodical on Structural Design and Construction

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 55-60

  Day, Robert W ^a,b  

^a ASCE   (United States)

^b American Geotechnical   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION; CRACK PROPAGATION; JOINTS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); LIFT SLAB CONSTRUCTION; SETTLEMENT OF STRUCTURES; SOIL MECHANICS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EXPANSIVE SOIL; SOIL MOVEMENTS;

SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS;

CONSTRUCTION; EXPANSIVE SOIL; SOIL MOVEMENT; TILT-UP STRUCTURE;

EID: 0031147835     PISSN: 10840680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1084-0680(1997)2:2(55)     Document Type: Article

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