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    Engineering Structures Who Failed in Their Geologic Environment

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    The document summarizes several structures that failed due to their geologic environment: 1) The church of Karanlik in Turkey failed due to cracks in the tuff rock material forming its walls from weathering processes and seismic activity. 2) The Malpasset Dam in France failed due to poor investigation of its micaschist rock foundation with faults, and poor construction management. 3) The Transcona Grain Elevator in Canada failed when its clay foundation soil exceeded bearing capacity during filling. 4) The Los Frailes Tailings Dam in Spain failed when a separation dam between tailings basins lost mechanical integrity, initiating a main dam break. 5) The Le

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    The document summarizes several structures that failed due to their geologic environment: 1) The church of Karanlik in Turkey failed due to cracks in the tuff rock material forming its walls from weathering processes and seismic activity. 2) The Malpasset Dam in France failed due to poor investigation of its micaschist rock foundation with faults, and poor construction management. 3) The Transcona Grain Elevator in Canada failed when its clay foundation soil exceeded bearing capacity during filling. 4) The Los Frailes Tailings Dam in Spain failed when a separation dam between tailings basins lost mechanical integrity, initiating a main dam break. 5) The Le

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    The document summarizes several structures that failed due to their geologic environment: 1) The church of Karanlik in Turkey failed due to cracks in the tuff rock material forming its walls from weathering processes and seismic activity. 2) The Malpasset Dam in France failed due to poor investigation of its micaschist rock foundation with faults, and poor construction management. 3) The Transcona Grain Elevator in Canada failed when its clay foundation soil exceeded bearing capacity during filling. 4) The Los Frailes Tailings Dam in Spain failed when a separation dam between tailings basins lost mechanical integrity, initiating a main dam break. 5) The Le

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    Engineering Structures Who Failed in Their Geologic Environment

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    The document summarizes several structures that failed due to their geologic environment: 1) The church of Karanlik in Turkey failed due to cracks in the tuff rock material forming its walls from weathering processes and seismic activity. 2) The Malpasset Dam in France failed due to poor investigation of its micaschist rock foundation with faults, and poor construction management. 3) The Transcona Grain Elevator in Canada failed when its clay foundation soil exceeded bearing capacity during filling. 4) The Los Frailes Tailings Dam in Spain failed when a separation dam between tailings basins lost mechanical integrity, initiating a main dam break. 5) The Le

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    SORIANO, MARIA THERESA S.

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    ENGINEERING STRUCTURES
    WHO FAILED IN THEIR GEOLOGIC ENVIRONMENT

    Detail of the fault structures on the church Karanlik - a crack in the tuff Internal part of the church Karanlik (mined cavern) with original paintings
    material: a) ruined part of the church, b) crack in the upper part of the from the 12th century. The view from the narthex
    church, c) detail of crack.

    Church Karanlik
    This shows a failure in tuff rock material on the walls of the church Karanlik. The structure of the rock mass is
    determined by the shape, size, spatial arrangement of the rock bodies and blocks, which are limited by discontinuities.
    Discontinuities may have lithological character, mechanical, or physical with different genesis. Discontinuities may have been
    created since the genesis of the rock mass or may occur later.
    There are discontinuities caused after the genesis of rock massif, in the case of the said church. They are caused by
    weathering processes. These are mainly mechanical and physical disorders. This is a long-term effect of exogenous factors and
    the effects of gravity that is the weight of the overlying strata. The area is tectonically still active. It plays an important role in the
    formation of cracks. Behaviour of ground mass in Cappadocia also examined [12] in connection with the effects of an earthquake.

    Malpasset Dam
     Post-failure studies and expertise during a trial revealed poor field investigations on a micaschist rock foundation
    crisscrossed by faults, and poor management of construction of the structure. The failure was ascribed to uplift, which moved a
    rock dihedron defined by a conspicuous fault and a tear along foliation. 
    Straightened Transcona Grain Elevator
    Tilted Transcona Grain Elevator

    Transcona Grain Elevator


    The foundation failure and righting of the Transcona Grain Elevator in 1913 is a truly remarkable case history made
    famous by its collapse during filling after foundation pressures exceeded the bearing capacity of the underlying clay
    foundation soil.

    Los Frailes Tailings Dam


    It seems to be clear so far that a separation dam between two parts of the impoundment experienced a foundation
    failure, that is, the soil beneath the base of this dam lost its mechanical integrity. The separation dam is located between
    the basins filled with tailings from pyroclastic rock and from pyritic rock. The foundation failure of the separation dam
    then initiated the break of the main dam.

    Leaning Tower of Pisa

    The tower began to lean during construction in the 12th


    century, due to soft ground which could not properly support the
    structure's weight, and it worsened through the completion of
    construction in the 14th century. By 1990 the tilt had reached 5.5
    degrees. The structure was stabilized by remedial work between
    1993 and 2001, which reduced the tilt to 3.97 degrees.

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