Estudo da influência da infiltração de águas pluviais na estabilidade de um talude de solo residual

• Autor(a) principal: Teixeira, Emmanuel Kennedy da Costa
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: LOCUS Repositório Institucional da UFV
• Texto Completo: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/3825
• topic: Taludes (Mecânica do solo) - Estabilidade; Infiltração de águas pluviais; Solos não saturados; Slopes (Soil Mechanics) - Stability; Infiltration of rainwater; Unsaturated soils; CNPQ::ENGENHARIAS::ENGENHARIA CIVIL::GEOTECNICA

Slopes of soil and/or rock exist naturally or are manmade in excavations (cut slopes) or landfills. When precipitation occurs on the slope, part of the rainwater infiltrates and, as the ground layers are being saturated, the suction forces decrease, eventually leading to the slope failure. This paper discusses the effect of infiltration of rainwater on the variation of safety factor values of a slope made of gneiss residual soil located at the Federal University of Viçosa (UFV) campus, next to another slope that failed in December, 2011. Results of laboratory tests - characterization, direct shear, water retention curve, and saturated permeability - in disturbed and undisturbed soil samples of the different soils existing in the slope and identified by standard penetration tests (SPT), are presented. Following, The variation of water content and suction in the slope are calculated, together with the safety factor along the year 2011, considering the climatic data measured at the UFV weather station - precipitation, temperature, speed and direction of winds. The infiltration of water in the slope was calculated using the commercial program VADOSE / W and the daily stability analyzes by the program SLOPE/W both from GeoStudio. The analyses showed that during rainy periods the value of the safety factor decreases, the lowest value being 1,545, in December. In dry periods, the safety factor tends to increase, but with lower rates compared to the decrease occurred during rainy periods. By analyzing the suction and the safety factor together throughout the year, it was observed that the behavior of the two variables is similar, ie, as described in the literature, when suction decreases, resistance also decreases, and the safety factor diminished.