TO STUDY THE CAUSES, MOVEMENT MEASUREMENT, INVESTIGATING PRINCIPLES AND REMEDIES OF CRACKS IN BUILDINGS: A REVIEW
Keywords:
Cracks, Buildings, techniques, Concrete, Structure failureAbstract
Appearance of Cracks in buildings is one of most critical issue throughout the world. So therefore it is
much more important to provide proper attention in order to prevent these cracks to reduce the strength of the
Structure. Thus cracks appear in concrete with Passage of Time that cannot be entirely prevented. For prevention
of these cracks different types of adequate materials, techniques of construction and design criteria is also
considered for cracks prevention. It is dream of every human that his house/home is aesthetically and
structurally safe and sound. But during construction work different types of errors occurred due to unavoidable
reasons at sites which lead towards the crack appearance in structure and non-structure parts of buildings with
time to time. It is not important to give attention to all type of cracks but There are different types of cracks
appeared in which some are active cracks. So for active cracks proper prevention measurements must be taken in
order to prevent structure failure of Building. The paper mainly focused and describes different type of methods
(Direct or indirect) used for prevention of cracks. For this purpose simple as well as instrumental methods use to
deal with such type of issues. This Paper also reflect information of how ultimate failure cause due to these
cracks, its reasons and preventive measurements. In this paper it was found that cracks having direct and indirect
impacts on the structure or building. Moreover it was also found that cracks in building cause the problem
indirectly due to facilitating the activities which finally cause the structure problems instead of direct way to
cause. So this paper concluded that different types of techniques were used for different type of appeared cracks
in buildings which depending upon intensity and reason of problem. That’s why the main question was raised
that why they are produced and how they are examined and controlled?
