Avaliação dos parâmetros de compressibilidade da camada de argila mole da Baixada de Jacarepaguá, após longo período de sobrecarga de aterro.

• Autor(a) principal: Baldez, Bianca da Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/11570
• topic: Civil Engineering; Consolidation; Clay; Laboratory test; Settlement; Engenharia Civil; Adensamento; Argila; Ensaios de Laboratório; Recalque; CNPQ::ENGENHARIAS::ENGENHARIA CIVIL

SIC and CRS consolidation tests have been performed on samples obtained from a very soft clay deposit from Jacarepaguá lowland, 15 years after the execution of a fill. The samples have been extracted from the same site where preliminary samples had been obtained at designing phase. The CRS tests have been performed at different strain velocities and compared to the SIC tests results carried out for the second investigation campaign. The geotechnical parameters of the very soft clay 15 years after fill construction are compared to the parameters of the natural shallow clay. The increase in pre-consolidation pressure and OCR reduction has been obtained after interpretation of the actual tests results. The settlement extent has been inferred from the new stratigraphy, due to the actual thickness of the layer in the investigated region, by the variation in void ratio and by the reduction in soil water content. The settlements originally predicted, including the secondary compression, are compared to the settlement obtained from different estimations and to those obtained from instrumentation. The main conclusions suggest that the sample quality from the first investigation were superior than from the actual one, in spite of the careful sampling, transportation and preparation in the laboratory for the second investigation campaign. This occurrence has been attributed to the construction process, imposing excessive movement of the clayey mass, with great interference on the uniformity of its characteristics when compared to its natural deposition. The consolidation tests with different strain velocity presented similar results, with variation in the relative position of the e x σ v curve, with the tests with higher strain velocity showing higher void indices. The e x σ v curves illustrate in an accentuated means the significant reduction in void ratio from the first to the second laboratory test campaign, due to the fill construction. The predicted settlements and that actually obtained by the instrumentation or by other sources indicate similar values compared to the stratification variability of the geotechnical parameters inherent to the natural origin of the sedimentary deposits.