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Service Reservoir Remedial Works
Author(s) -
SPURGEON G.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
water and environment journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1747-6593
pISSN - 1747-6585
DOI - 10.1111/j.1747-6593.1991.tb00629.x
Subject(s) - remedial education , remedial action , service (business) , expansion joint , geotechnical engineering , civil engineering , engineering , structural engineering , forensic engineering , geology , environmental remediation , mathematics , business , ecology , mathematics education , marketing , contamination , biology
Two conventional reinforced‐concrete service reservoirs failed during initial filling, the wall sections sliding sufficiently to cause rupture of some water‐stops in the expansion joints. The paper describes the remedial works undertaken to stabilize the structures and gives details of the method used to make the expansion joints watertight.