Abstract
The tile-crack occurring status and the tile adhesive strength were evaluated in an exterior tiled RC-building with the elastic adhesive or the mortar, which have built for 12 years. Though the tile-crack occurring rate was 0.87% with the mortar, it was 0.07% with the elastic adhesive. Beside, the relation between the tile-crack and the ground-crack was checked after tearing the tiles. As a result, the tile-crack occurred with the mortar as following the ground-crack, but the tile-crack did not occur with th elastic adhesive against the 2mm ground-crack. It was showed that the elastic adhesive buffered the ground-crack. Also, it was confirmed that the tile adhesive strength with the elastic adhesive had not changed for 12 years.
