Structural issues like these are difficult to solve without significant renovation.
Make underground roof support systems without colaps.
Moreover an analytical upper bound method.
While some earth sheltered homes are built completely beneath ground level many are constructed using a technique known as berming.
Which puts far too much weight on the brace itself and leads to collapse.
The 15x15 rooms where i plan to plce my turrets keep caving in in the middle.
Three independent methods were used to evaluate the roof collapse of underground rectangular cavities for a range of geometries and rock properties 15.
Any impervious sheet material heavy duty polyethylene rubber membrane rigid insulation at least 3 feet wide is placed along the foundation about 8 to 12 inches below grade and sloped at.
Rock on the other hand behaves a little bit differently in that it does have some tensile strength.
A scout pit can be dug out to make an underground fort in sandy areas.
These lining systems add a major cost to the tunnel construction.
I was under the impression that you could make 16x16 rooms under a mountain without it collapsing and i have two 17x17 rooms with one support elsewhere in the base that have never collapsed on me.
The collapse of the overburden strata above an underground opening can be subdivided into two groups.
Undesirable eg collapse of the roof above a roadway although some are expected eg the collapse of the overburden above a longwall panel.
Our economical and labor saving designs which include roof pipe supports roof mounted duct supports access ramps maintenance platforms.
Earth bermed homes are built largely above ground but piles of soil are then pushed up against the walls all the way to the top to form a protective cocoon of earth and vegetation that will separate the outer shell of the home from the open air.
You can pack the branches with a light layer of mud to create a roof and cover with leaves or other natural material to hide the hole.
Roof support systems are typically created with wood and sometimes steel beams.
The rooftop support systems rts division of eberl iron works inc.
An underground roof is a deflecting surface just below grade that slopes away from the building and directs all that roof water away from the foundation.
It is essentially a shallow cavity dug into the sand with branches covering 3 4ths the way across.
For both cases mine designers need to be able to predict if and how the failure will occur.
So i have 15x15 interior rooms on either side of a 3x15 walkway that i use for my killbox in my mountain base.