Land subsidence caused by the interaction of high-rise buildings in soft soil areas

Zhen-Dong Cui (), Jia-Qiang Yang and Li Yuan

Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, 2015, vol. 79, issue 2, 1199-1217

Abstract: With the development of economy and the lack of land resource, many high-rise buildings have been constructed in big cities, which result in land subsidence in the soft soil areas, such as Shanghai and Tianjin in China. In this paper, the land subsidence caused by high-rise buildings was studied by centrifuge model tests and numerical simulations. The silty clay of layer No. 4 experiences the maximum subsidence. The central area of the building group has larger subsidence, and the subsidence superimposition effect is obvious. It can exceed the allowance and cause land subsidence hazard. Plastic deformation will occur in soil, causing the larger land subsidence when the load is large enough. The land subsidence caused by high-rise buildings with different distances was also studied. The building distance is smaller, the subsidence superimposition effect is more obvious, especially for the central area of buildings. It is feasible to increase the distance of buildings to prevent excessive land subsidence. The results from the 3D numerical simulations match well with those of the centrifuge model tests which can be used to analyze and predict the land subsidence of high-rise buildings. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015

Keywords: Land subsidence; High-rise building; Stress superposition; Centrifuge model test; Numerical simulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1007/s11069-015-1902-8 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:nathaz:v:79:y:2015:i:2:p:1199-1217

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/economics/journal/11069

DOI: 10.1007/s11069-015-1902-8

Access Statistics for this article

Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards is currently edited by Thomas Glade, Tad S. Murty and Vladimír Schenk

More articles in Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards from Springer, International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().