ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to assess the dynamic response of a monumental residential building to mining shocks as well as to ground-transmitted vibrations caused by city transportation systems. Mining shocks are the most important paraseismic loadings, which can strongly affect residential infrastructure if natural resources extraction takes place in urban areas. The evaluation of risk resulting from mining shocks to surface structures became a task of recent studies in Poland. The analysis proved that the level of maximum tensile stresses, occurring in the building due to the mining shocks, could have destructive effect on the structure and break the bond between the mortar and the brick units. The impact of each mining shock on the building is considerably greater than the impact of any city transportation systems. The dynamic response of building to vibrations caused by different types of city transportation systems is considerably smaller than the response to mining shocks in terms of both: principal stresses and accelerations.
