What is it about?
A series of case studies shows how vertical monitoring of structures can be quickly and economically carried out using movement gauges.
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Why is it important?
Many surveyors and engineers believe that monitoring of cracks can allow the direction and cause of damage to be diagnosed. Once vertical monitoring is carried out, it soon becomes apparent that cracks are a just a symptom of movement and a crack only forms at a particular location because of minimum energy rather than the location of movement.
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Use of movement gauges has proved cost effective and more accurate than the BRE precise levelling.
Robert Thorniley-Walker
Institution of Civil Engineers
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This page is a summary of: Briefing: Case studies for movement gauges to record vertical movements in structures to ±0·1 mm, Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Forensic Engineering, August 2018, ICE Publishing,
DOI: 10.1680/jfoen.18.00008.
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