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Module (III)
Demolition of Structure
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2 contents
Introduction
Demolition methods
Procedure of safe demolition of structure
Safety measures
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4 Introduction
Demolition, or razing, is the science and engineering in safely and efficiently tearing
down of buildings and other man-made structures. Demolition contrasts
with deconstruction, which involves taking a building apart while carefully
preserving valuable elements for reuse purposes.
When the building structure is very old and not desirable to take the load
dismantling of structure is necessary.
Building structure is very old
Any part of building has become weak
Internal change to be done
Life of structure is over
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5 Need of planning of demolition
process
Demolition work is one of the most dangerous operation in construction.
Communication problems in usually very unclear sites can put workers at
high risk of falling from height, being hit by objects, getting buried by
collapsing elements etc.
Easy to cause injury to human workers due to accessing into or working inside
a building which is under construction
Falling of smaller objects or debris from demolishing building.
Falling of partially demolished structure.
Collapse of unstable structure due to original structure being disturbed.
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process
Collapse of heavy demolition equipment due to inadequate support of
partially demolished structure.
Collapse of the partially demolished structure due to the accommodation
of large amount of uncleaned debris .
Congested site environment that cause easily damage to human workers,
or to the third parties and their properties and their properties that are
situated near by site.
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drawings
showing
Detail of Proposed
equipment method of
used DEMOLITION
Structural
calculation to
justify the proposal.
Proposed
arrangements for
site supervision.
handling and precautionary
disposing of the measures for
demolished the adjacent
materials buildings
Proposed
shoring and
protection
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Catch
Fan
Typical dust screen and fans provision
to protect building and minimize
disturbance to public during demolition
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Shaft for falling of debris
Common ways to get rid of the demolished debris
– to control the falling of the debris into a pre-
determined vertical shaft formed on the floor slabs
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Debris collection area at ground floor under the debris
shaft Debris shaft formed by opening
temporarily cut on floor slab
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Temporary props erected to support heavy
equipment
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Typical sectioning/ sequencing arrangement of work
during demolition – demolish from one side to the other
side of building
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Typical layout arrangement in small and
medium sized building under demolition
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14 Demolition methods
Simple demolition
The demolition methods,e.g. bucket, rock shovel
bucket, Rubble shovel bucket, heavy duty bucket
and many more are classified into simple
demolition method because these are applicable
to demolish masonry in simple way.
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15 Hammering
Repeated hammering can be used to
crack and break concrete.
Stone chisel: used for light brick house
Hand hammer:
Large size hammer: this is mounted on
crawler type wheel type machine. Two
types of energy is transferred to
hammering rod one is pneumatic force
and other is hydraulic force.
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Typical demolition
arrangement done by
human operatives
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Worker breaking
down larger piece
of structure which
was demolished
by pulling/pushing
method.
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18 Demolition using top-down
method using machines
Building before demolition
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machines
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Moving down of the breaking machine to the lower floor
Demolition using top-down method using
machines – typical floor cycle and machine
movement
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Hitting
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Steel ball
A steel ball of weight 0.5 -2 ton is
suspended by a crane and used to
demolish concrete masonry by
repeated [Link] produces too
much noise vibration and dust.
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Pile crusher
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Demolition through diamond wire saw
Diamond boring machine
Hand hammer drill
Water jet
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Set-up and mounting of of the
saw dis on wall
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Using core and drill method to demolish a pedestrian
subway
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25 Bursting
Concrete and rock can be spit by bursting force in hole. This method
classified into static bursting e.g. buster with wedge and chemical
expansive demolition agent and dynamic bursting. E.g., water gun, gas
cylinder, cardox, milde explosives.
Burster with wedges
Chemical expansive demolition agent
Water Gun
Gas cylinder
Cardox
Mild explosives
Explosives
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26 Melting
Concrete and rebars are remelted by the heat of combustion of metal or
organic fuel, plasma, and laser beam.
Thermal lance
Fire oil flame
Plasma
Laser beam
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27 Heating and peeling concrete
Concrete is pealed by heating rebars electrically or heating concrete by a
microwave.
Heating rebars by electrical current
Heating rebars by induction current
microwave
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28 Shearing and feeling
Shear can only cut rebars and shaped steels
Hand shear
Hydraulic large size shears
Feeling of columns and smokestacks
Feeling by blasting of explosive.
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