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But there are some cases where you want to avoid cracks or the excessive deflection that can come from passive rebar.

The Argentine ants' numbers allow them to hunt down and devour such an excessive mass of different insects that over time, some species disappear from the ants' territory completely.

The result was that no one took the blame for the building’s excessive movement, condo owners would be compensated for the loss of property values, and, most importantly, the building would be fixed.

So, job number 1 of a foundation is to distribute the downward force of a structure over a large enough area to reduce the bearing pressure and avoid shear failures or excessive settlement.