Best Historical Practice: The Retaining Wall by Military Engineer Daniel de Bosquet on the Landslide-Prone Slopes of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra
摘要
The retaining wall known as the wall of Debosquet (Daniel de Bosquet) was built. In front of the entrance to the Near Caves the Debosquet retaining wall (DRW) forms the square, on which the Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross (1700), the entrance to the Near Caves, and other buildings are located. The work purpose was to investigate the DRW technical state and surrounding slopes stability. The applied methods included the visual and instrumental inspections and slope stability mathematical modeling. The visual inspection discovered the vertical cracks with the 2.0–3.0 mm openings along the entire height of the wall in axes 2–3; the wall wetting and finishing layer damage in axes 1–2 and 3–5, etc. Mathematical modeling showed that the stability of the slope with the DRW for option 1 (the DRW spatial rigidity being considered) was ensured (Kstmin = 1.48), and for options 2 and 3 (the DRW spatial rigidity was not considered) was not ensured (Kstmin = 0.92 and Kstmin = 1.0, respectively). The DRW by its technical state is limited in serviceability and requires a reconstruction.