Inspection of sugar factory brick wall*

Abstract

Nowadays a huge number of industrial buildings constructed in the last century need restoration. Structures with brick walls are in the list. The reason for this is the appearance of cracks, breaks, spalls, cavities, holloes and other discontinuities of brickwork; wall deformations; stratification of brickwork rows; humidification of walling, weathering and leaching of mortar; loss of individual bricks; damage to protective and finishing layers; efflorescence on the surface of brickwork and many other things.The causes of such defects can be the following: unsatisfactory operating conditions; errors at the design stage; low quality of the used construction material; substandard work; differential settlement of walls foundation; violation or lack of wall waterproofing; natural aging of masonry and other negative factors.In this work the object of the inspection was a brick wall of the main building of the sugar factory, which was put into operation in 1962.The inspection results showed that the condition of the load-bearing brick wall of the sugar factory main building, taking into account the scope and danger of defects, the degree of physical and moral wear of structures, as well as a number of other factors, can be considered unsatisfactory (limited working capacity) and the building can be regarded suitable for reconstruction and further operation.