Instrumentação de fundações estaqueadas

• Ano de defesa: 2016
• Autor(a) principal: Cruz Junior, Aleones José da
• Orientador(a): Sales, Maurício Martines
• Banca de defesa: Rebolledo, Juan Felix Rodriguez, Santos, Eder Carlos Guedes dos, Sales, Maurício Martines
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Goiás
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-graduação em Geotecnia, Estruturas e Construção Civil (EEC)
• Departamento: Escola de Engenharia Civil - EEC (RG)
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Extensometria; Instrumentação; Fundações estaqueadas
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Extensometer; Instrumentation; Piled foundations
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: ENGENHARIA CIVIL::GEOTECNICA
• Link de acesso: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/6306

In the last few years there have been increasing demands for more elaborated foundations projects, therefore, numerical tools and Geotechnical design methodologies have been developed. However, these solutions need to be confirmed, which is possible through direct measuring of the elements, achieved through instruments. Diverse research applied instrumentations to the load transfer problem under controlled conditions of the field and laboratory, however, there are few studies that aimed the application of a global instrumentation, of the construction as a whole, and for a longer period of time with greater durability of the sensors. In this regard, this work had the main objective to come up with a methodology for a versatile and durable instrumentation of piled foundations in order to verify the load distribution transmitted by the pillars to the ends of the piles from the making of the sensors to the load test application to measure loads at full scale. The use of strain gages for construction of the instruments has been set. The sensors were fabricated and calibrated using the physical space and equipment of PPGECON-UFG, using criteria and specific procedures for this research. Prototypes were developed in scale models, small columns of concrete, in order to reach the best arrangement of the sensors, performing load and performance of instrumentation simulations. A construction was determined as a case study where it was performed instrumented static load test at several levels, using the developed sensors. The sensors developed by performance tests proved to be durable and accurate, and the immersion sensor shown a closer behavior to the concrete through load tests. However, performance tests have shown to be more susceptible to setting time and curing phenomena of the concrete. For application in columns, it was found that the sensors manufactured showed good performance when compared to calculated values of elastic modulus compound. Sensors applied to the load test were able to obtain the distribution of loads at different levels, separating portions of the lateral friction resistance per layer, and the unit shear stress of soil layer. From these results it was found the maximum shear stress in the surface layer and it was possible to compare with semi-empirical methods of load capacity and bridging charge-discharge curve. Proving that the installation of instrumentation in the load test, even without occurrence of break, is used to verify the performance of the test pile, knowing additional parameters and confirming the geotechnical design.