UGS: CRACK MONITORING

(CENG 6208)

LECTURE 1

By: Prof S. K. Tewatia

ADAMA SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY ,

May 2022
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1. As the word used is monitoring and not measuring; so
the purpose and methods are not to measure the
absolute width, length and depth of cracks. Only
deformation with respect to time is observed. If there
is no deformation with time then nothing to worry
about the cracks, they can be levelled and closed with
cement mortar or some other material.

2. The methods do not provide the absolute movements of the walls

on both sides of the crack but their relative movements only with
respect to each other.
IN CRACK MONITORING
Laws/Equations used in Analysis
Eq 1 – Law of Sines
Eq 2 - Law of Cosines
 Stepwise Procedure
1. At time t=0, Measure sides AB, BC, CA of ΔABC
and find Angle CBA (say Ang B) using Eq 1. At
time t=t1, Measure sides BA1 and BC1. For first
iteration take y = BA1 - BA
2. In ΔBCC2: Ang BCC2 =180 – Ang B. Find side
BC2 by Eq 2. Find Ang BC2C by Eq 1.
3. In ΔBC2C1: Ang BC2C1 = 90 – Ang BC2C. Find
Ang C2BC1 by Eq 1. Find x by Eq 2
4. Go to slide 5: In Right Ang ΔBA1A2, Find BA2
and determine new value of y = BA2 – BA
5. Go to Step 2
6. Repeat iterations 3-4 times to get exact x and y
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