As obras de engenharia atuais envolvem unidades estruturais de grande porte cujo projeto e execução devem ser cuidadosamente observados. Devido à complexidade das cargas e solicitações estruturais, as metodologias de projeto devem atender a necessidades específicas. A variabilidade geotécnica associada à diversidade de carregamentos, impõe a necessidade de desenvolvimento de metodologias aplicadas especificamente a projetos de fundações que serão sujeitas a carregamentos laterais, tais como pontes, obras portuárias, torres de linhas de transmissão, aerogeradores (onshore e offshore) e plataformas (offshore e nearshore) de exploração de petróleo e gás natural. Existem alguns métodos relatados na literatura geotécnica para projeto de fundações submetidas a esforços horizontais. Nenhum destes métodos considera uma solução baseada no simples reforço, através de técnicas de cimentação, dos solos na sua camada superficial, radial à estaca. Dessa forma, procura-se na presente pesquisa estudar o comportamento de fundações profundas com reforço do solo na sua camada superficial, sujeitas a carregamentos horizontais. São apresentadas diretrizes de projeto, estabelecendo-se ainda um modelo de previsão da capacidade de carga de fundações profundas submetidas a este tipo de carregamentos. Ensaios em campo experimental e simulações numéricas tridimensionais, usando o Método dos Elementos Finitos foram realizados, por forma a se obter uma melhor compreensão do comportamento de estacas carregadas lateralmente. Considerando o diâmetro da estaca (D) e a sua profundidade (L), no campo experimental, foram definidas razões L/D representando o comportamento de estacas rígidas e flexíveis. Diversos ensaios de carregamento horizontal foram realizados para estas relações L/D, em solo natural e com solo melhorado radial às estacas. As análises numéricas consistiram numa análise paramétrica onde foram variados parâmetros geométricos (da estaca e do solo tratado) e geotécnicos, necessários à caracterização dos materiais no modelo utilizado, o de Mohr-Coulomb. O modelo de previsão proposto foi obtido com base na análise dos resultados de simulações numéricas usando o software ABAQUS®, validados com provas de cargas no campo experimental. É também de salientar que nesta pesquisa apenas será considerada a ruptura geotécnica, pelo que é assumido que as estacas têm comportamento elástico. Do estudo realizado pode-se concluir que o uso de uma camada superficial de solo tratado radial à estaca melhora significativamente o desempenho do sistema, aumentando a sua capacidade de carga e diminuindo a sua deformação, mostrando ser uma ótima e promissora alternativa para fundações profundas sujeitas a carregamentos horizontais. / Current engineering works typically envolve large structural units whose design and implementation should be closely observed. Due to the complexity of the loads and structural needs, the design methodologies should comply specific requirements. The geotechnical variability combined with the loads diversity imposes the need to develop methodologies applied specifically to projects whose foundations will be laterally loaded, like bridges, harbors, transmission line towers, onshore and offshore wind turbines, among others. There are several methods reported in geotechnical literature to design piles that will be subjected to horizontal loads. However, none of these methods consider a solution based on a simple soil reinforcement using cementation techniques, in a superficial layer, radial to pile. The main goal of this research is to study the behavior of deep foundations with a reinforced soil system, subjected to lateral loads. Design guidelines are presented, leading to a model that predicts the ultimate load capacity of deep foundations subjected to these types of efforts. Field tests and tridimensional numerical simulations using the Finite Element Method were performed in order to achieve a better understanding of the behaviour of laterally loaded piles. Considering the pile diameter (D) and its depth (L), different L/D ratio were defined, corresponding to rigid and flexible piles. Using these L/D ratios, in both natural and reinforced soils, numerical and field tests were performed to provide experimental evidences of its behaviour. Numerical tests consisted in a parametric analysis where different geometric (pile and treated soil) and geotechnical parameters, necessaries to the Mohr-Coulomb model, have been modified. The proposed prediction model is based on the analysis of the numerical simulations results, using ABAQUS® software, validated with the field tests. It is important to point that in this study only geotechnical rupture is considered. Therefore it is assumed that piles have elastic behaviour. Has been concluded that the use of a superficial treated layer, radial to pile, considerably improves the system performance, increasing the lateral load capacity and decreasing their deformation, showing that this technique could be a promising solution to deep foundations subjected to horizontal loads.

Final work is processed for an administrative center in Prague. It is the preparation and organization of the construction of the object in Hostivař. The work is done for the most important technological phases of site equipment, economic comparison of cranes, financial and time evaluation of building, selection of main mechanisms and main part of the text dealing with the character of the building, its technical data, process of constructing the object and the overall treatise about building. Technological process is made for the technological phase of construction of assembled skeleton.

O monitoramento em campo de fundações em estacas metálicas helicoidais é baseado em correlações empíricas entre a capacidade de carga à tração e o torque medido durante a instalação. Nesta pesquisa é proposto um modelo teórico da relação entre o torque de instalação e a capacidade de carga à tração deste tipo de estaca em areias para ser utilizado como procedimento de controle durante a execução deste tipo de fundação. Para validar esta relação teórica e para avaliar o desempenho desta fundação em solos arenosos, foi realizado um programa experimental dividido em dois grupos: ensaios de campo e ensaios de laboratório. Em campo foram realizadas provas de carga à tração na Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos (EESC) e em Contagem (Minas Gerais). Os ensaios de laboratório foram divididos em três grupos. O primeiro corresponde aos ensaios de modelagem física em centrífuga realizados no Laboratoire Central des Ponts et Chaussées (LCPC) em Nantes, França. O segundo engloba ensaios de cisalhamento direto de interface entre o aço da hélice da estaca e diferentes areias, parte executada no LCPC e parte na EESC. O terceiro grupo refere-se a ensaios de torção de tubos de estacas metálicas helicoidais efetuados na EESC. A partir dos resultados dos ensaios, o modelo teórico proposto nesta tese foi verificado e mostrou-se adequado para estacas metálicas helicoidais profundas com diferentes dimensões e número de hélices instaladas em solos arenosos. Os resultados das provas de carga realizadas em centrífuga e em campo foram examinados por meio dos métodos existentes na literatura para estimativa de capacidade de carga à tração desenvolvidos para este tipo de fundação. Por meio dos resultados obtidos nos ensaios em centrífuga, constatou-se que nas estacas multi-hélices a porcentagem de capacidade de carga relativa à hélice da ponta aumenta de acordo com o diâmetro da hélice e com a densidade da areia. Nos ensaios de torção de fustes de estacas helicoidais observou-se que, para tubos de mesmo diâmetro e espessura, a ruptura se inicia a partir do mesmo valor de momento torçor aplicado, independentemente de conter ou não emenda. / Empirical correlations between installation torque and uplift capacity of helical screw piles are routinely used as a procedure for quality control on site of this type of foundation. In this work, a theoretical model of the relationship between uplift capacity and installation torque of deep helical screw piles in sand was presented to be used as a quality control method for this type of foundation. An experimental program of laboratory and field investigations was carried out in order to validate this theoretical relationship. The field study included uplift tests of full-scale piles installed at the Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos (EESC) and in Contagem (Minas Gerais). The laboratory tests were performed in the Laboratoire Central des Ponts et Chaussées (LCPC/ Nantes) and at the EESC. In the LCPC a program of centrifuge and direct shear interface tests was completed. A set of torsion tests on pile shafts and of direct shear interface tests were carried out at the EESC. The results showed that the theoretical model presented is applicable to different pile dimensions, number of helices, and sand relative density. The methods existing in the literature for estimating uplift capacity of helical screw piles were used to verify the results of uplift capacities measured in field and in centrifuge studies. The results of centrifuge modelling tests demonstrated that the fraction of uplift capacity corresponding to the bottom helix increases with helix diameter and sand density. The torsion tests showed that the failure of the pile shaft begins at the same torque magnitude in experiments on shafts with and without connections.

O monitoramento em campo de fundações em estacas metálicas helicoidais é baseado em correlações empíricas entre a capacidade de carga à tração e o torque medido durante a instalação. Nesta pesquisa é proposto um modelo teórico da relação entre o torque de instalação e a capacidade de carga à tração deste tipo de estaca em areias para ser utilizado como procedimento de controle durante a execução deste tipo de fundação. Para validar esta relação teórica e para avaliar o desempenho desta fundação em solos arenosos, foi realizado um programa experimental dividido em dois grupos: ensaios de campo e ensaios de laboratório. Em campo foram realizadas provas de carga à tração na Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos (EESC) e em Contagem (Minas Gerais). Os ensaios de laboratório foram divididos em três grupos. O primeiro corresponde aos ensaios de modelagem física em centrífuga realizados no Laboratoire Central des Ponts et Chaussées (LCPC) em Nantes, França. O segundo engloba ensaios de cisalhamento direto de interface entre o aço da hélice da estaca e diferentes areias, parte executada no LCPC e parte na EESC. O terceiro grupo refere-se a ensaios de torção de tubos de estacas metálicas helicoidais efetuados na EESC. A partir dos resultados dos ensaios, o modelo teórico proposto nesta tese foi verificado e mostrou-se adequado para estacas metálicas helicoidais profundas com diferentes dimensões e número de hélices instaladas em solos arenosos. Os resultados das provas de carga realizadas em centrífuga e em campo foram examinados por meio dos métodos existentes na literatura para estimativa de capacidade de carga à tração desenvolvidos para este tipo de fundação. Por meio dos resultados obtidos nos ensaios em centrífuga, constatou-se que nas estacas multi-hélices a porcentagem de capacidade de carga relativa à hélice da ponta aumenta de acordo com o diâmetro da hélice e com a densidade da areia. Nos ensaios de torção de fustes de estacas helicoidais observou-se que, para tubos de mesmo diâmetro e espessura, a ruptura se inicia a partir do mesmo valor de momento torçor aplicado, independentemente de conter ou não emenda. / Empirical correlations between installation torque and uplift capacity of helical screw piles are routinely used as a procedure for quality control on site of this type of foundation. In this work, a theoretical model of the relationship between uplift capacity and installation torque of deep helical screw piles in sand was presented to be used as a quality control method for this type of foundation. An experimental program of laboratory and field investigations was carried out in order to validate this theoretical relationship. The field study included uplift tests of full-scale piles installed at the Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos (EESC) and in Contagem (Minas Gerais). The laboratory tests were performed in the Laboratoire Central des Ponts et Chaussées (LCPC/ Nantes) and at the EESC. In the LCPC a program of centrifuge and direct shear interface tests was completed. A set of torsion tests on pile shafts and of direct shear interface tests were carried out at the EESC. The results showed that the theoretical model presented is applicable to different pile dimensions, number of helices, and sand relative density. The methods existing in the literature for estimating uplift capacity of helical screw piles were used to verify the results of uplift capacities measured in field and in centrifuge studies. The results of centrifuge modelling tests demonstrated that the fraction of uplift capacity corresponding to the bottom helix increases with helix diameter and sand density. The torsion tests showed that the failure of the pile shaft begins at the same torque magnitude in experiments on shafts with and without connections.

The topic of this master's thesis are the design of ensuring foundation pit and foundation of administrative building in Prague. In the vicinity of foundation pit is situated the river Vltava, which directly influences the ground water level at the job site. During construction, it is necessary to envisage the possibility of occurrence of the old building structures of docks.

L’état de l’art réalisé dans le cadre de ce travail a permis d’identifier une grande variété de techniques de réalisation de micropieux avec des comportements effort-déformation difficiles à prédire. Quant aux méthodes de contrôle, du point de vue de l’intégrité il existe deux méthodes développées pour les pieux lesquelles ne sont pas toujours applicables aux cas de micropieux ; et du point de vue du contrôle du comportement mécanique, il existe un essai assez utilisé pour le contrôle de micropieux : l’essai d’arrachement. Cet essai est facile à réaliser et à interpréter, cependant il est onéreux (long temps d’essai) et difficile à mettre en place. Un autre type d’essai, utilisé dans le contrôle de fondations profondes, est l’essai de chargement dynamique. La recherche bibliographique a permis d’identifier les avantages et inconvénients de ce type d’essai adaptés et déjà validés dans le contrôle de pieux. Nous avons donc proposé une nouvelle méthodologie basée sur des essais de chargement dynamique à faible contrainte nécessitant des énergies de battage beaucoup moins importantes que dans les essais de chargement dynamique classiques. Le protocole et dispositif d’essai de la méthodologie ont été calibrés et validés à partir de simulations numériques afin notamment de justifier les choix de l’énergie d’impact, de la masse du marteau et de l’amortisseur à utiliser. Les observations numériques sont ensuite vérifiées expérimentalement sur des micropieux à échelle réelle mis en place dans un site expérimental développé dans le cadre de ce projet. La méthodologie de contrôle en place de la résistance en service de micropieux développée, c’est une méthode originale simple à réaliser, facile à mettre en oeuvre et d’interprétation immédiate. Elle a été validée aussi dans le cas de micropieux à échelle réelle en conditions maitrisées dans le site expérimental et non maitrisées dans trois chantiers réels de micropieux. Finalement, le progrès dans les recherches, a permis le développement d’une méthodologie de contrôle de la résistance limite de micropieux. Pour cela nous proposons d’utiliser un modèle analytique de prédiction du comportement effort-déformation alimenté par les résultats de l’essai de chargement dynamique à faible déformation et d’un essai complémentaire de reconnaissance des paramètres à la rupture du sol. L´objectif de ce développement est de proposer une prédiction de la résistance limite du micropieux testé sans compromettre son intégrité. L’application de la méthodologie a montré qu’elle donne des résultats très proches de ceux observés dans les essais statiques. / The review of the state-of-the-art of micropiles produced as part of this work allows to identify a wide variety of construction methodologies which have a stress-strain behavior difficult to predict. As for the testing methods, there are methods for assessing the condition of piles or shafts but they are not always applicable to the micropiles; and in terms of the control of mechanical behavior, the most used load testing micropile is the uplift static load test. The static load test is easy to perform and interpret, however the reaction system is cumbersome and slow to erect, therefore this test is time and cost consuming. Another type of test that can be used in the control of deep foundations is the dynamic load testing. The literature review helped to identify the advantages and disadvantages of this type of test that has been adapted and validated in control of pile behavior. The new methodology proposed in this work is based on low-strain dynamic test requiring a smaller impact energy than a high-strain dynamic test. The testing protocol and loading device of the methodology have been calibrated and validated by numerical simulations in order to justify the choice of the impact energy, the weight of hammer and the cushion that will be used. The numerical observations are then verified by experiences in full-scale micropiles installed in an experimental site developed as part of this project. The developed in situ control methodology of the resistance in service of micropiles is an original method, easy to carry out, simple to execute and with an immediate interpretation. This methodology has been validated on full-scale micropiles in contained conditions and also in uncontained conditions in three real projects of micropiles. Finally, the advances in the investigations have led to develop a methodology for control the micropile’s ultimate resistance. We propose to use an analytical model for predicting the stress-strain behavior, which must be supplied with the results of the low-strain dynamic micropile test and of a complementary geotechnical test in order to examine the parameter of soil failure. The goal of this development is to provide a method for predict the micropile’s ultimate resistance without compromising its integrity. The results of the application of the new method to the experimental micropiles are in close agreement with the results observed in the static load test. / La revisión del estado del arte en relación a micropilotes, realizada en este trabajo, ha permitido identificar una gran variedad de técnicas de construcción, donde la predicción de sus comportamientos mecánicos, es una tarea difícil de realizar. Con respecto a los métodos de control, desde el punto de vista de la integridad, existen actualmente métodos no siempre aplicables a los micropilotes, y desde el punto de vista del control del comportamiento mecánico, el ensayo más utilizado es el ensayo de arrancamiento. El ensayo de arrancamiento es de fácil realización e interpretación, sin embargo es oneroso, por su larga duración y la necesidad de disponer de equipos muy pesados.Otro tipo de ensayo, que es utilizado para el control de fundaciones profundas en general, es el ensayo de carga dinámica, cuyas ventajas y desventajas han sido identificadas en la investigación bibliográfica.La nueva metodología propuesta, motivo de este trabajo, está basada en los ensayos de carga dinámica a baja deformación, donde se necesita una energía de impacto mucho menos importante que en el caso de los ensayos clásicos de carga dinámica.El protocolo de la metodología y su dispositivo de ensayo han sido calibrados y validados a partir de simulaciones numéricas con el fin de, principalmente, justificar la elección de la energía de impacto, de la masa del martillo y del amortiguador a utilizar. Las observaciones numéricas han sido, luego, verificadas experimentalmente sobre micropilotes a escala real, instalados en un sitio experimental desarrollado en el marco de este proyecto.La metodología de control in situ, de la resistencia en servicio de micropilotes, desarrollada en este trabajo, es un método original, simple de realizar, con un sistema fácil de instalar y de interpretación inmediata. Ella ha sido validada, en el caso de micropilotes a escala real en condiciones controladas en el sitio experimental, y no controladas en el caso de tres proyectos reales.Además, el avance en las investigaciones, dio lugar al desarrollo de una metodología de control de la resistencia límite de micropilotes. Para ello proponemos utilizar un modelo analítico de predicción del comportamiento esfuerzo-deformación alimentado por resultados del ensayo de carga dinámica a baja deformación y de un ensayo complementario de reconocimiento de los parámetros de ruptura del suelo. El objetivo de este desarrollo es de proponer un método de predicción de la resistencia límite de micropilotes sin comprometer su integridad. La aplicación de la metodología ha mostrado que los resultados son muy cercanos a los observados en los ensayos de carga estática.

Le travail de thèse présenté dans ce mémoire vise à analyser et à comprendre les mécanismes mis en jeu au niveau de l’impact du creusement d’un tunnel par bouclier à front pressurisé sur des fondations profondes avoisinantes. Cette thèse a été réalisée dans le cadre du projet européen NeTTUN, au sein du Laboratoire de Tribologie et de Dynamique des Systèmes (LTDS) de l’ENTPE. L’approche phénoménologique conduite lors de ces travaux repose sur deux importantes campagnes expérimentales réalisées à l’aide d’un dispositif unique au plan international de modèle réduit 1g de tunnelier à pression de terre (échelle de l’ordre de 1/10eme). La forte originalité de ce dispositif est de pouvoir simuler de façon réaliste les principales étapes du processus tridimensionnel d’excavation mécanisé d’un tunnel. Dans le cadre de cette thèse, le dispositif existant de modèle réduit de tunnelier a dans un premier temps été reconfiguré afin de pouvoir répondre aux besoins du programme expérimental envisagé. Des modèles physiques de fondations profondes (pieux et groupes de pieux) et de barrières de protection ont été conçus dans le cadre des lois de similitude, fabriqués et instrumentés. Deux campagnes expérimentales d’envergure ont été réalisées en massif de sable sec : l’une concerne les effets du passage d’un tunnelier à front pressurisé sur des fondations profondes avoisinantes (pieux, groupe de pieux), l’autre traite de l’efficacité de barrières de protection (parois moulées) utilisées pour limiter ces effets. Différents paramètres qui influencent l’interaction tunnelier - sol - fondations ont été considérés comme la distance relative tunnel / fondation, la pression frontale de soutènement appliquée par le TBM sur le terrain ou encore la hauteur des barrières de protection. L’analyse phénoménologique menée à l’échelle du modèle concerne en particulier l’évolution des champs de contraintes et de déplacements dans le terrain autour du tunnelier, les déplacements relatifs sol - pieu et sol- barrière, la redistribution des efforts au sein des fondations. L’importante base de données et d’analyse ainsi constituée a été mise à profit pour la validation d’outils de modélisation numérique développés par l’Université de Rome au sein du projet NeTTUN. / The major goal presented in this thesis was to analyze and investigate the mechanisms, which are involved in the impact of the tunnels excavated thanks to an Earth Pressure Balanced Shield on nearby deep foundations. This thesis was realized in European project NeTTUN and the work had been done in the Laboratory of Tribology and Systems Dynamics (LTDS) of ENTPE. During these works, phenomenological approach was based on two important experimental campaigns carried out using a unique device at the international level of a 1g scale model of earth-pressure tunnel boring machine (scale of the order of 1 / 10). The state of the art of this device was to be able to simulate in possibly realistic way the main stages of the three-dimensional process of mechanized excavation of a tunnel. In the framework of this thesis, the existing model tunneling machine device was initially reconfigured in order to reach the expectations of the experimental program envisaged. Physical models of deep foundations (piles and groups of piles) and protective barriers were designed under the similitude laws, manufactured and instrumented. The two large-scale experimental campaigns have been carried out in a dry sand massif. The first one concerned the effects of the passage of a pressurized tunnel boring machine on nearby deep foundations (piles, group of piles), whereas another one dealed with the effectiveness of mitigation procedure (diaphragm walls) used to limit these effects. Different parameters that influenced on the tunneling: soil - foundation interaction considered as the relative tunnel / foundation distance, the frontal face pressure applied by the TBM in the field or the height of the protective barriers. The phenomenological analysis carried out at the scale of the model concerned in particular the evolution of the fields of stresses and displacements in the ground around the tunnel boring machine, relatives pile / soil and wall / soil displacements and the redistribution of stresses along the pile foundations. The large database and analysis constituted was used for the validation of numerical modeling tools developed by the University of Rome within the NeTTUN project.

This diploma thesis addresses the „University Campus Bohunice - Architectural and technological project“. This thesis includes excavation, pile foundation, reinforced concrete foundation slab it also deals with in detail technological regulations on earthworks and deep-pile foundation. The thesis contains solutions to building equipment, schedule of selected stages of the construction situation with the solution of transport routes, designed mechanical assembly required for selected stages and control plan earthworks and deep-pile foundation. This diploma thesis addresses the „University Campus Bohunice - Architectural and technological project“. This project involves construction of two buildings. Building A32 with two basement floors and three floors and second building A 31 with one basement floor and three floors. This thesis includes excavation, pile foundation, reinforced concrete foundation slab, it also deals with technological regulations of earthworks and deep-pile foundation in detail. The thesis contains solutions to construction site equipment, schedule of selected stages of the construction, location of buildings and the solution of transport routes, mechanical equipment required for selected stages of project and control plan of earthworks and deep-pile foundation.

The subject of this diploma thesis is the design of deep foundation highway bridge on D3 motorway in km 112.574, over Bošilecký stream and evaluation of geomorphological, geological and hydrogeological conditions and perform static calculation bridge foundation

Esta Tesis de investigación estudia la propuesta de aplicación de un sistema de mejoramiento de suelos para un proyecto inmobiliario de nueve niveles que se proyecta ejecutar en el distrito de San Juan Bautista, en la región Loreto, la cual colinda con el distrito de Iquitos. Bajo esta premisa, se desarrolla la idea de cómo introducir un sistema de mejoramiento para suelos de baja resistencia, el cual reemplazará el sistema de cimentaciones profundas propuesto inicialmente, en el terreno del proyecto se realizó el estudio de suelos y se concluyó que las capas superficiales son de material orgánico, en la capa intermedia con alta potencia se clasifico a las arenas y finalmente se encontró arcilla dura a una profundidad promedio de 8 a 9 metros. A continuación se procedió a estudiar conceptualmente los diferentes tipos de cimentación profunda y sistemas de reforzamiento de suelos. Finalmente nos centramos en el sistema de Pilas de grava compactada, la cual ya registra eficientes antecedentes en diversos proyectos realizados en la ciudad de Lima, y en el norte del país. Es así, que debido a las características desfavorables de los suelos de la ciudad de San Juan Bautista, se optó a dar inicio con la realización del diseño, luego a la evaluación del proceso constructivo, el análisis de los recursos a emplear; siendo la etapa de exploración de canteras, el proceso más determinante para el inicio de la viabilidad del sistema en términos de diseño, costo y tiempo de ejecución. Finalmente se concluye que el sistema de Pilas de grava compactada tiene la capacidad de incrementar la presión admisible del suelo, y disminuir los costos de construcción de la cimentación. / This Research Thesis studies the proposal for the application of a soil improvement system for a nine-level real estate project that is planned to be executed in the San Juan Bautista district, in the Loreto region, which borders the Iquitos district. Under this premise, the idea of how to introduce an improvement system for highly compressible soils is developed, which will replace the system of deep foundations initially proposed, in the field of the project the soil study was carried out and it was concluded that the surface layers are of organic material, in the intermediate layer with high power the sands were classified and finally hard clay was found at an average depth of 8 to 9 meters. Next, the different types of deep foundations and soil reinforcement systems were conceptually studied. Finally, we focus on the system of Piles of compacted gravel, which already records efficient records in various projects carried out in the city of Lima, and in the north of the country. Thus, due to the unfavorable characteristics of the soils of the city of San Juan Bautista, it was decided to begin with the realization of the design, then to the evaluation of the construction process, the analysis of the resources to be used; being the quarry exploration stage, the most decisive process for the beginning of the viability of the system in terms of design, cost and execution time. Finally, it is concluded that the system of compacted gravel piles has the capacity to increase the admissible pressure of the soil, and decrease the construction costs of the foundation / Tesis