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In recent decades, we have witnessed an extraordinary progress in tasks related to the problems of the interaction of building structures with the subsoil. The transition from low-rise buildings to high-ones, the design of more subtle structures hand in hand with the full use of building materials, places increasing demands on the methods of foundation of building objects. These tendencies might result in some problems when the issues of the interaction between the upper structure and the subsoil assume a dominant...

Reservoirs, which can have different floor plans, are among the most important civil engineering structures used in various branches of industry, in agriculture, in water management. They can be made from the different materials, but the most common are reinforced concrete or steel. All these structures are placed on the ground, the composition of which depends on the location of such a structure. In addition to these surface tanks there are also semi-recessed or fully recessed ones. Any of such tanks must be desi...

Tanks are building structures that are used mainly for capturing and treating water but also other liquids. Different materials and shapes are used for their construction, also the use of tanks can be different. The floor plan shapes of the tanks depend mainly on the purpose of use, on the technological process taking place in the tank, and the method of construction as well. The most common floor shapes of tanks are rectangular, polygonal, circular, or other. Tanks with a circular floor plan are advantageous from...

Lock chambers are structures built on watercourses in places, where it is necessary to overcome sections with a large longitudinal slope. The method of determining the safety of the lock chamber and the static analysis, design and dimensioning of individual structural parts depend mainly on the type of chamber. Different criteria are used for chambers having side walls reinforced by slope, for chambers having walls made of anchored steel sheet piles, for walls on a high pile grate, and again others, for the side w...

Pile foundations are among the most widely used deep foundations. Compared to the full-area foundation, here the weight of foundation and extent of excavation works have been reduced while the sheeting and massive backfilling have been eliminated. Concrete piles have been usually made of plain concrete or reinforced concrete. Piles of circular, square or polygonal shapes have been mostly used. Their dimensions differ depending on the technology used. The paper presents effects of piles loaded by bending moment. Th...