Siesmic influence on the adjacent foundation

[geotechniqa]

Hello
They have a proposed location for a building (5 floors).
Not to far from the proposed site there are controlled explosion activities going on (Quarry source). I want to comment if siesmic activities impact the foundation location.
Plesae advise on some practical materials associated with this subject.
Not that my background in the dynamic analysis is not too bad.
Thank alot.

 

[msucog]

it depends on how close you are to the blasting, what kind of foundations you use, what kind of soils/rock (and geology) are supporting the foundations, and how p'd off the people inside the building will be when listening to that all day long...i'm almost sure this doesn't answer your question.

 

[geotechniqa]

I am sure that there is a way ( other than the numerical modelling) to attack this kind of problems

 

[moe333]

You can do vibration monitoring. There are criteria that indicate vibration threshold values to human tolerance, architectural damage and structural damage. I believe the particle velocity is the measurement with the defined criteria.