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<p>A method for determining the value of the damage to a single-family residential building located near an open-pit mine caused by ground vibrations is presented. The article describes how to objectively determine the degree of actual wear and tear to a residential building (Zr) affected by ground vibrations created during rock mining using blasting. It consists of the method of “weighted average degree of technical wear and tear of individual elements” known from literature and used to calculate the actual wear and tear of the building. The natural wear and tear of the building is then calculated from dependences given in the literature. The percentage of the building’s natural wear and tear (Zn) is subtracted from the percentage of the building’s actual wear and tear. As a result of the subtraction, a percentage of accelerated wear and tear of the building (Zb), which is caused by vibrations of the ground during rock blasting, is obtained. Multiplying the percentage of accelerated wear and tear of the building by the value of a new building gives a value of the damage caused by ground vibrations. Examples of determining the value of the damage caused by ground vibrations in practice are described.</p>
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A method for determining the value of the damage to a single-family residential building located near an open-pit mine caused by ground vibrations is presented. The article describes how to objectively determine the degree of actual wear and tear to a residential building (Zr) affected by ground vibrations created during rock mining using blasting. It consists of the method of “weighted average degree of technical wear and tear of individual elements” known from literature and used to calculate the actual wear and tear of the building. The natural wear and tear of the building is then calculated from dependences given in the literature. The percentage of the building’s natural wear and tear (Zn) is subtracted from the percentage of the building’s actual wear and tear. As a result of the subtraction, a percentage of accelerated wear and tear of the building (Zb), which is caused by vibrations of the ground during rock blasting, is obtained. Multiplying the percentage of accelerated wear and tear of the building by the value of a new building gives a value of the damage caused by ground vibrations. Examples of determining the value of the damage caused by ground vibrations in practice are described.

A method for determining the financial cost of damage to buildings caused by seismic ground vibrations

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A method for determining the value of the damage to a single-family residential building located near an open-pit mine caused by ground vibrations is...

A method for determining the financial cost of damage to buildings caused by seismic ground vibrations

Published Online: Dec 02, 2021

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Received: Jun 28, 2021

Accepted: Nov 27, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.37705/TechTrans/e2021022

Keywords
sejsmic vibrations, natural wear of the house, accelerated wear of the house, cost of repairing

© 2021 Tadeusz Chrzan, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

A method for determining the financial cost of damage to buildings caused by seismic ground vibrations

Published Online: Dec 02, 2021

Page range: -

Received: Jun 28, 2021

Accepted: Nov 27, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.37705/TechTrans/e2021022

Keywordssejsmic vibrations, natural wear of the house, accelerated wear of the house, cost of repairing

© 2021 Tadeusz Chrzan, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Keywords
sejsmic vibrations, natural wear of the house, accelerated wear of the house, cost of repairing