TY - GEN
T1 - Response of historic structure to long-term environmental and construction vibration effects
AU - Dowding, Charles H.
AU - Marron, Daniel
AU - Baillot, Remi
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Reconstruction of Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC provided a unique opportunity to instrument an historic house to determine its response to construction vibrations. To that end three cracks in the house, two on the interior and one on the exterior were instrumented with a micro-meter crack displacement sensor capable of measuring changes in crack width as small as 0.4 micro meters. This one sensor was employed to measure the micro-meter response of the crack to both dynamic (construction vibration) as well as the long term (weather) effects. As has been found with many other structures, the long term climatological effects produce greater crack response than do construction vibrations at levels that can be perceived and at times can be described as annoying.
AB - Reconstruction of Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC provided a unique opportunity to instrument an historic house to determine its response to construction vibrations. To that end three cracks in the house, two on the interior and one on the exterior were instrumented with a micro-meter crack displacement sensor capable of measuring changes in crack width as small as 0.4 micro meters. This one sensor was employed to measure the micro-meter response of the crack to both dynamic (construction vibration) as well as the long term (weather) effects. As has been found with many other structures, the long term climatological effects produce greater crack response than do construction vibrations at levels that can be perceived and at times can be described as annoying.
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U2 - 10.1061/40940(307)17
DO - 10.1061/40940(307)17
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:40449089469
SN - 0784409404
SN - 9780784409404
T3 - Geotechnical Special Publication
SP - 17
BT - FMGM 2007 - Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Field Measurments in Geomechanics
T2 - 7th International Symposium on Field Measurements in Geomechanics, FMGM 2007
Y2 - 24 September 2007 through 27 September 2007
ER -