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SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS FOR STRUCTURES BEING ERECTED NEAR MINERAL SPRINGS
Abstract
The mineral springs are deep but they cause spills near to the ground surface. In ancient times, buildings have been erected at the level of the spills, and water has been used for heating. Nowadays, the ground surface is some 12 m over the mineral water spills. The structures of the new metropolitan railway are 15-20 m under the ground surface which means that they have to pass through Pliocene clays soften by the mineral water. These specific geological conditions require a specific approach of underground construction. Troubles with the mineral water spills arise both for the metropolitan railway, and for the tower-shaped structures founded at the surface. The paper is aimed to summarize the problems and trends in the design and the execution of structures located in the vicinity of mineral springs. The problems are considered in relation to already built structures designed by the author.
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] M.V. Frost, 2003. Transportation Geotechnics. Proceedings of the symposium held at the Nottingham Trent University, Thomas Telford (ed) [2.] Eurocodes 2, 7, 8 [3.] Photographs and schemes are from author’s project developments.
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