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In this dissertation, a research effort aimed at development and implementation of a direct field test method to evaluate the linear and nonlinear shear modulus of soil is presented. The field method utilizes a surface footing that is dynamically loaded horizontally. The test procedure involves applying static and dynamic loads to the surface footing and measuring the soil response beneath the loaded area using embedded geophones. A wide range in dynamic loads under a constant static load permits measurements of linear and nonlinear shear wave propagation from which shear moduli and associated shearing strains are evaluated. Shear wave velocities in the linear and nonlinear strain ranges are calculated from time delays in waveforms monitored by geophone pairs. Shear moduli are then obtained using the shear wave velocities and the mass density of a soil. Shear strains are determined using particle displacements calculated from particle velocities measured at the geophones by assuming a linear variation between geophone pairs. The field test method was validated by conducting an initial field experiment at sandy site in Austin, Texas. Then, field experiments were performed on cemented alluvium, a complex, hard-to-sample material. Three separate locations at Yucca Mountain, Nevada were tested. The tests successfully measured: (1) the effect of confining pressure on shear and compression moduli in the linear strain range and (2) the effect of strain on shear moduli at various states of stress in the field. The field measurements were first compared with empirical relationships for uncemented gravel. This comparison showed that the alluvium was clearly cemented. The field measurements were then compared to other independent measurements including laboratory resonant column tests and field seismic tests using the spectral-analysis-of-surface-waves method. The results from the field tests were generally in good agreement with the other independent test results, indicating that the proposed method has the ability to directly evaluate complex material like cemented alluvium in the field. / text

Esta dissertação de mestrado discute e analisa os critérios especificados em normas brasileiras e internacionais sobre projetos de sapatas isoladas em concreto armado, com relação a determinação dos esforços solicitantes, dimensionamento e detalhamento das armaduras. O trabalho contém as recomendações essenciais para o projeto e a construção de sapatas isoladas, como o tipo de fundação rasa mais freqüentemente utilizado. São discutidos os critérios apresentados no Boletim número 73 do CEB (1970), da norma brasileira \" Projeto e execução de obras de concreto armado\", NBR 6118 (1982), do Código Modelo do CEB - FIP (1991), Código de Projeto de Edifícios do ACI 318/1995, Eurocode 2 (1992) e do Texto Base para Revisão da NB 1/78(1992) e alguns modelos de cálculo não normalizados mas encontrados na literatura técnica. Observa-se em alguns desses códigos a omissão com relação ao dimensionamento no estado limite último de sapatas isoladas, onde foram, portanto, adaptados critérios indicados para lajes maciças. Exemplos de projetos de sapatas isoladas submetidas a ação centrada, excêntrica com plano de ação do momento paralelo a um dos lados do pilar e sapata com ação centrada e momentos paralelos aos dois lados do pilar são analisados para facilitar o entendimento dos conceitos emitidos pelas várias normas citadas e que são utilizadas comumente pelo meio técnico. Observou-se nos exemplos apresentados que para as tensões normais de tração foram encontradas armaduras mínimas ou valores próximos aos mínimos. Para os valores das forças cortantes e forças para verificar a punção, em alguns casos, se aproximaram das forças últimas. Foi notado que geralmente os efeitos das tensões cisalhantes determinam não só as alturas das sapatas mas também todo o seu dimensionamento. / This Thesis discusses and analyses the footing design criteria of Brazilian Code and also some international codes, in regarding to internal forces determination, dimensioning and reinforcement distribution. This work has essential recommendations to design and construct spread footing, such as the most frequently used types of shallow foundation. Criteria presented in the CEB/1970, NBR 6118/1982, CEB MC-90, ACI 318/1995, EC-2/92, and in the text which can be used as the basis for revised version of the Brazilian Code NB 1/78(1992) are discussed as well as some design models that are not yet normalized but it can be found at technical literature. lt can be observed in some of these Codes that since they do not take into consideration the ultimate limit state in spread footing design, some criteria that are applicable to slabs were adapted for this study. Some examples of spread footing under compression load design, spread footing under eccentric load having flexure plane in one side of column and in both side of column, are analysed to help understanding the concepts on the cited Codes. lt was noted on the examples that it was founded the minimum reinforcement when the structure was submitted to tension stress. Shear forces and forces used to verify punching shear effects reached the ultimate forces in some cases. lt was observed that shear tension effects determine the footing high as well as every footing dimensions.

Esta dissertação de mestrado discute e analisa os critérios especificados em normas brasileiras e internacionais sobre projetos de sapatas isoladas em concreto armado, com relação a determinação dos esforços solicitantes, dimensionamento e detalhamento das armaduras. O trabalho contém as recomendações essenciais para o projeto e a construção de sapatas isoladas, como o tipo de fundação rasa mais freqüentemente utilizado. São discutidos os critérios apresentados no Boletim número 73 do CEB (1970), da norma brasileira \" Projeto e execução de obras de concreto armado\", NBR 6118 (1982), do Código Modelo do CEB - FIP (1991), Código de Projeto de Edifícios do ACI 318/1995, Eurocode 2 (1992) e do Texto Base para Revisão da NB 1/78(1992) e alguns modelos de cálculo não normalizados mas encontrados na literatura técnica. Observa-se em alguns desses códigos a omissão com relação ao dimensionamento no estado limite último de sapatas isoladas, onde foram, portanto, adaptados critérios indicados para lajes maciças. Exemplos de projetos de sapatas isoladas submetidas a ação centrada, excêntrica com plano de ação do momento paralelo a um dos lados do pilar e sapata com ação centrada e momentos paralelos aos dois lados do pilar são analisados para facilitar o entendimento dos conceitos emitidos pelas várias normas citadas e que são utilizadas comumente pelo meio técnico. Observou-se nos exemplos apresentados que para as tensões normais de tração foram encontradas armaduras mínimas ou valores próximos aos mínimos. Para os valores das forças cortantes e forças para verificar a punção, em alguns casos, se aproximaram das forças últimas. Foi notado que geralmente os efeitos das tensões cisalhantes determinam não só as alturas das sapatas mas também todo o seu dimensionamento. / This Thesis discusses and analyses the footing design criteria of Brazilian Code and also some international codes, in regarding to internal forces determination, dimensioning and reinforcement distribution. This work has essential recommendations to design and construct spread footing, such as the most frequently used types of shallow foundation. Criteria presented in the CEB/1970, NBR 6118/1982, CEB MC-90, ACI 318/1995, EC-2/92, and in the text which can be used as the basis for revised version of the Brazilian Code NB 1/78(1992) are discussed as well as some design models that are not yet normalized but it can be found at technical literature. lt can be observed in some of these Codes that since they do not take into consideration the ultimate limit state in spread footing design, some criteria that are applicable to slabs were adapted for this study. Some examples of spread footing under compression load design, spread footing under eccentric load having flexure plane in one side of column and in both side of column, are analysed to help understanding the concepts on the cited Codes. lt was noted on the examples that it was founded the minimum reinforcement when the structure was submitted to tension stress. Shear forces and forces used to verify punching shear effects reached the ultimate forces in some cases. lt was observed that shear tension effects determine the footing high as well as every footing dimensions.

It is evident from several studies that ultimate bearing capacities calculated by traditional methods are conservative and subjective. For large civil structures founded on spread footings, cost-effective and safer foundation could be achieved by adopting optimum ultimate bearing capacity values that are based on an objective and pragmatic analysis. There is a pressing need to modify the existing methods for accurate estimation of the bearing capacities of rocks for spread footings. In practice, foundation bearing capacities of rock masses are often estimated using the presumptive values from Building Officials Code Administrators, National Building Code, and methods adopted by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials. However, the estimated values are often not realistic, and site-specific analyses are essential. In this study, geotechnical reports and drill-log data from successful geotechnical design projects founded on a wide range of granites in eastern Tennessee were consulted. Different published methods were used to calculate ultimate bearing capacity of rock mass. These methods included Peck, Hansen and Thornburn, Hoek and Brown, Army Corps of Engineers, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, and Terzaghi's general bearing capacity equations. Wide variation was observed in the calculated ultimate bearing capacity values, which ranged over about two orders of magnitude. Only two of the methods provided realistic results when validated with plate-load test data from similar rocks.

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The design of foundation in normal soil conditions is governed by bearing capacity, minimum depth of foundation and settlement. However, foundation design in karst regions needs to consider an additional criterion associated to the possibility of subsurface subsidence and ravelling sinkholes. Under this environment, alternative techniques are needed to improve the subsurface soil. In this study general background information is given to understand the geological characteristics of Central Florida and why this area is considered to be a karst region and susceptible to sinkholes formation. Traditional foundation design techniques on karst regions are addressed in this paper. Finally, the use of a network of three subsurface horizontal piles is proposed and the effect on stress increase and soil bearing capacity for footing due to the horizontal piles is investigated. Finite element computer software is used to analyze the stress distribution under different conditions and the results are discussed. The objective of this study is to determine whether or not horizontal piles under a circular footing at the sinkhole site is a viable solution to reduce the stress increase in the soil induced by the footing load. The horizontal piles located at a certain depth below the center of the footing intercepts the cone of pressure due to the footing load. Also, it is the purpose of this research to determine the effect on the soil bearing capacity for footing due to the proposed horizontal piles at the sinkhole prone area. In 1983 Baus, R.L and Wang, M.C published a research paper on soil bearing capacity for strip footing above voids. In their research, a chart for soil bearing capacity for strip footing located above a void was presented. However, in this paper we present a chart for circular footing size as a function void location and a design chart for circular footing size with a network of three underground piles. The result indicates that with the horizontal piles placed above the cavity, the stress increase caused by the footing load substantially decreases as compared to the situation of no horizontal piles, thus increases the soil bearing capacity for the normal design of footing size. The approach of using the horizontal piles placed in between the footing and the subsurface cavity is a new concept that has not been experienced previously. The results are strictly based on the analytical model of finite element program. Before full implementation for the construction practice, further research and experimental work should be conducted.

No / Laboratory scale model slopes reinforced with waste carpet fibers were made in a rigid tank with dimensions of 800 mm x 300 mm x 500 mm. Bearing capacities of the strip footing rested on non-reinforced and fiber-reinforced model slopes with 1%, 3% and 5% fiber content were compared at 20% footing displacement ratio. The influence of location of footing on the bearing capacity was studied with placing the footing at different edge distances from the crest of the footing (i.e., 150 mm, 100 mm and 0). Suction probe sensors were installed at appropriate locations on the rear side of the model slope to measure the pore-water pressure generated due to the footing pressure. Results showed that fiber reinforcement increased the bearing resistance of the model slopes significantly. Inclusion of 5% fiber increased the bearing resistance by 271% compared to that of non-reinforced model slope at the footing edge distance ratio of 3. The location of footing was found to affect the load-carrying capacity of the fiber-reinforced model slope. The increase in the edge distance ratio of the footing increased the load-carrying capacity of the model slope.

FundaÃÃo de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Cearà / CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeiÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel Superior / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento CientÃfico e TecnolÃgico / nÃo hà / Esta tese tem como objetivo analisar atà que ponto e sob quais circunstÃncias a presenÃa da terceira parte influencia ou interfere nos chats educacionais virtuais por meio das mudanÃas de footing dos participantes desses chats e da polidez linguÃstica que eles investem em momentos de mudanÃa. Para tanto, tomamos como base os estudos de Goffman (1967; 1981), Brown; Levinson (1978; 1987), Leech (1983; 2005), e as investigaÃÃes de Paiva (2004), Paiva; Rodrigues-Junior (2008) e Pereira (2009). Para a realizaÃÃo da pesquisa, contamos com a colaboraÃÃo dos alunos e dos professores das disciplinas SociolinguÃstica, LinguÃstica Textual e Leitura e ProduÃÃo de Textos AcadÃmicos, ofertadas no curso de graduaÃÃo Letras-PortuguÃs da Universidade Federal do CearÃ. Cada participante respondeu a um questionÃrio com questÃes que visaram compreender seus hÃbitos e afinidades com a ferramenta chat educacional virtual. Depois de tabular e cruzar as informaÃÃes presentes nos questionÃrios, e de analisar quinze chats, verificamos que a figura do professor conteudista nÃo somente atua como terceira parte ou zona de influÃncia como tambÃm chega a interferir na mudanÃa de footing dos participantes da interaÃÃo. O tipo de mudanÃa de footing mais significativo à o de formato de produÃÃo, no qual foi possÃvel observar que na presenÃa da terceira parte tutores e alunos procuram ser mais animadores do que responsÃveis ou autores. TambÃm na presenÃa da terceira parte, os alunos evitaram inserir frames de longa duraÃÃo. Com relaÃÃo à mudanÃa de footing por estrutura de participaÃÃo, a presenÃa da terceira parte parece ter condicionado a exclusÃo momentÃnea do tutor na interaÃÃo durante a sua presenÃa, que, por sua vez, excluiu alunos, neste mesmo momento interacional. Estes resultados demonstram que o movimento interno Ãs interaÃÃes sociais (footing) realizadas em chats educacionais virtuais à bastante sensÃvel à presenÃa de membro hierarquicamente superior, podendo inclusive se prolongar na sua ausÃncia. Com esta investigaÃÃo, concluÃmos que a escolha de determinadas estratÃgias de polidez como use marcadores de identidade e grupo, inclua ouvinte e falante na mesma atividade, nominalize, distancie-se do ator e adicione formalidade; distancie-se dos pronomes eu e vocà auxiliam no estabelecimento e na mudanÃa de footings pelos participantes, pois demonstram o nÃvel de engajamento empreendido, sinalizando em quais momentos o observador interfere na projeÃÃo de suas faces. / This research aims at analyzing what extent and under what circumstances the presence of third part influences or interferes with the educational virtual chats through changes in participantsâ footing in these chats and linguistic politeness that they invest in turning points.Our work in this dissertation seeks to achieve this relationship which, in our view, seems inseparable for understanding social relations. Therefore, as the basis of our studies we take Goffman (1967, 1981), Brown; Levinson (1987, 1978), Leech (1983, 2005), and more recently, investigations by Paiva; Rodrigues-Junior (2008), Paiva (2004) and Pereira (2009). To achieve the researchâs aims, we had the collaboration of students and teachers from Sociolinguistics, Linguistics and Textual Reading and Production of Academic Texts disciplines, offered in the Portuguese Literature course at the Federal University of CearÃ. The participants answered a questionnaire that aimed to understand their habits and affinities with educational virtual chat tools. After crossing and tabling the information provided in the questionnaires and analyzing fifteen chats, we found that the figure of the content teacher does not only act as a third part or zone of influence, but also he/she interferes in some instances to the changing in participants of the interactionâs footing. The most significant type of footing change is in the format of production, in which tutors and students demonstrate that in the presence of the third part, they seek to be more impeller than sponsors or authors. Also, in the presence of the third part, students avoid inserting frames of long duration. Regarding the change of footing for participation structure, the presence of the third part seems to have conditioned the momentary exclusion of the tutor interaction during its presence, which in turn, excluded students, even in this moment of interaction. These results demonstrate that the internal motion to social interactions (footing) held in virtual educational chats is very sensitive to the presence of higher-ranking member, and it can even extend during its absence. With this investigation, we can conclude that the choice of certain politeness strategies, such as use group and identity markers, include listener and speaker in the same activity, nominalize, hold off yourself from the author and add formality, hold off yourself from pronouns such as I and you assist in establishing and changing footings by the participants because they demonstrate the level of engagement undertaken, signaling to which moments the observer interferes with the projection of their faces.

<p>  </p> <p>Knowledge of the displacement and deformation fields beneath foundation elements obtained from carefully executed experiments is required to validate state-of-the-art numerical simulations, which in turn enable the development of better foundation design methods. This dissertation presents the results of an experimental program in which load tests were performed on model footings in a half-cylindrical calibration chamber with a transparent viewing window across its diameter. The digital image correlation (DIC) method was used to obtain the strain and displacement fields in the soil from digital images taken during the tests. Tests performed on both smooth and rough footings show a significant dependence of resistance on footing base roughness, with the DIC results providing insight into the reasons for that dependence. The experimental bearing capacity results are used to validate a previously proposed method in which an equivalent friction angle is used for calculation of the bearing capacity of footings in sand.</p> <p>Schmertmann's method is one of the traditional methods for estimating the settlement of axially loaded footings in sand using cone penetration test (CPT) data. The method was developed for footings placed on the surface of a single, uniform sand layer; it assumes a depth of influence below the footing base within which most of the soil deformations take place and an influence diagram to quantify the influence factor as a function of depth. However, the literature contains limited information on the strain influence diagrams for footings on layered sands, and, as a result, there is no way to accurately account for the effect of sand layering on footing settlement. In this study, Schmertmann's approach for calculating the strain influence factor is modified to account for the effect of two sand layers with varying thickness and relative density. Penetration experiments were performed using a half-square model footing (width <em>B</em> = 90 mm) placed on the surface of both single and two-layered (dense over medium-dense and medium-dense over dense), air-pluviated, silica sand samples prepared inside a half-cylindrical calibration chamber designed for digital image correlation (DIC) analysis. The test results indicate that both the thickness and relative density of the top sand layer (the layer in contact with the footing base) affect the parameters of the strain influence diagram. For dense sand over medium-dense sand, the depth to the peak strain influence factor varies with the thickness of the dense layer; however, when the thickness of the dense layer is 1.5<em>B</em> or greater, the strain influence diagram is similar to that obtained for a single, uniform sand layer. In contrast, for medium-dense sand over dense sand, the peak value of the strain influence factor varies with the thickness of the medium-dense layer up to a value of 1<em>B</em>. Based on the results obtained in this study, new strain influence diagrams are proposed for settlement calculation of square footings on two-layered sand profiles. The proposed method for estimation of footing settlement in layered sand is validated against measured data obtained from a full-scale, instrumented footing load test reported in the literature. </p> <p>The expressions for the shape and depth factors available in the literature for bearing capacity calculation are mostly empirical and are based on results obtained using limit analysis or the method of characteristics assuming a soil that is perfectly plastic following an associated flow rule. This study presents the results of an experimental program in which load tests were performed on model strip and square footings in silica sand prepared inside a half-cylindrical calibration chamber with a transparent visualization window. The results obtained from the model footing load tests show a significant dependence of footing penetration resistance on embedment depth. The load test results were subsequently used to determine experimentally the shape and depth factors for model strip and square footings in sand. To obtain the displacement and strain fields in the sand domain, the digital image correlation (DIC) technique was used to analyze the digital images collected at different stages during loading of the model footing. The DIC results provide insights into the magnitude and extent of the vertical and horizontal displacement and maximum shear strain contours below and around the footing base during penetration.</p> <p>The loading of a footing in sand generates substantial shear bands as a mechanism for failure develops with the formation of slip surfaces. The interaction of sand particles in the shear band governs its constitutive response to loading. This study provides the results of loading experiments performed under different conditions on half-square model footings (width <em>B</em> = 90 mm) in dense air-pluviated silica sand samples prepared in a half-cylindrical calibration chamber equipped with an observation window that allows collection of images of the sand domain during testing. Two sands (Ottawa sand and Ohio Gold Frac sand) with different roundness (angularity) were used to perform these experiments. The digital image correlation (DIC) technique was used to obtain the incremental strain fields in the sand domain. The zero-extension line (ZEL) concept was then used to study the shear strain localization process and to obtain the orientation of the shear bands from analysis of the incremental strain fields. The results show that sand particle morphology, footing surface roughness, load eccentricity, and depth of embedment of the model footing have an impact on the dominant shear band patterns that develop below the model footings, and, as a result, all of these factors affect the unit bearing capacity of footings. The estimated thickness <em>t</em>s of the shear band from the experiments is approximately 6<em>D</em>50 for Ottawa sand and approximately 8<em>D</em>50 for Ohio Gold Frac sand. </p>