In this paper vibratory crack response is compared to that produced by volumetric changes in foundation soils induced by natural events. These natural phenomena include changes in the water table, changes in soil moisture, and formation of ice lenses to name a few. Previous papers have compared vibratory responses of cracks to atmospheric effects such as those produced by the passage of weather fronts and daily changes in temperature and humidity. Periodicity of these atmospheric effects is on the order of a day to half a dozen days. Thus it is possible to observe atmospheric effects with measurement over a period of weeks to several months. On the other hand, crack response produced by volumetric changes in foundation soils occurs over a period of many months and/or may be seasonal in nature if not longer in the case of drought. Thus its measurement requires long periods of observation (many months to significant fractions of a year) or observation during critical seasons. Since it occurs over long periods of time, its observation may be obscured by climatologically induced crack response. These soil volume changes are compared with climatic data to describe the correlative nature of crack response in time with the soil volume change phenomena and likely climatic causes.

Last modified

• 08/14/2017

Creator

• V. Rosenhaim
• Catherine Aimone-Martin
• Jeffrey Meissner
• Charles H. Dowding

DOI

• https://doi.org/10.21985/N20X97

Publisher

• Northwestern University Libraries

Language

• English

Keyword

• Structural health monitoring
• Cracking of concrete

Date created

• 2009

Related url

•  http://iti.northwestern.edu/publications/dowding/acm/Dowding_et_al-2009-Crack_Response_to_Blast_Vibrations_and_Moisture_Induced_Volumetric_Changes_in_Foundation_Soils.pdf

Resource type

• Research Paper

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• All rights reserved