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Monitoring of heat transmission from buildings into geological environment and evaluation of soil deformation consequences in foundation engineering

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In engineering geology a number of factors affecting foundation conditions are taken into consideration during engineering-geological investigations. This article deals with the factor of heat sourced from a structure (brick kiln) as a restrictive factor in foundation engineering in clay soils and introduces a documentation of soil deformation observations as an impact of the heat transmission into the geological environment. It was carried out in Southern Moravia in the Czech Republic, where the dominant foundation soils are Neogeneous clays where differential settlements of a tunnel kiln structure occurred as a result of ignoring the boundary conditions of temperature changes in the soil environment. The brick kilns caused heterogeneous spatial changes in the subsoil temperatures. This consequently resulted in differential settlements due to temperature changes originating from the kilns. The differential settlements reached as much as 150 mm. The major objective of the article is to highlight the importance of the heat transmission from buildings into the geological environment as a factor which should be considered in engineering geology and its application in planning. A new procedure for reducing or elimination of ground movements sourced from underlying clayey soils depending on the heat changes was also suggested in this context.

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Acknowledgments

Authors thank to European Union (CENTRAL EUROPE Programme co-financed by the ERDF) for the support for the project (COBRAMAN––1CE014P4) which is the base of this article. This paper has been elaborated in the framework of the project opportunity for young researchers, reg. no. CZ.1.07/2.3.00/30.0016, supported by Operational Programme Education for Competitiveness and co-financed by the European Social Fund and the state budget of the Czech Republic. Authors are deeply grateful to the anonymous reviewers for their very constructive comments and suggestions which led to the improvement of the quality of the paper.

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  1. Department of Geological Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Cumhuriyet University, 58140, Sivas, Turkey

    Işık Yilmaz

  2. Faculty of Mining and Geology, Institute of Geological Engineering, VŠB-Technical University of Ostrava, 17. listopadu 15, 708 33, Ostrava, Czech Republic

    Marian Marschalko, David Lamich & Egon Stutz

  3. Department of Geotechnics, Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Žilina, Žilina, Slovak Republic

    Marián Drusa

  4. Teplotechna Průmyslové Pece, S.r.o., 77900, Olomouc, Czech Republic

    Jiří Machačík

  5. Faculty of Mining and Geology, Institute of Environmental Engineering, VŠB-Technical University of Ostrava, 17 listopadu 15, 708 33, Ostrava, Czech Republic

    Silvie Heviánková, Miroslav Kyncl, Eva Lacková & Iva Bestová

  6. Department of Hydrogeology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Mlynská dolina, 842 15, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

    David Krčmář

  7. Department of Engineering Geology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Mlynská dolina, 842 15, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

    Martin Bednárik

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Yilmaz, I., Marschalko, M., Lamich, D. et al. Monitoring of heat transmission from buildings into geological environment and evaluation of soil deformation consequences in foundation engineering. Environ Earth Sci 72, 2947–2955 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-014-3200-2

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