Submitted by Fabio Sobreira Campos da Costa (fabio.sobreira@ufpe.br) on 2016-12-01T14:03:53Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) Dissertação Klayde Versão 9 - revisão final.pdf: 9120386 bytes, checksum: d27cc83b0c7db013e2bf497f74e2a430 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-01T14:03:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) Dissertação Klayde Versão 9 - revisão final.pdf: 9120386 bytes, checksum: d27cc83b0c7db013e2bf497f74e2a430 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-05-05 / CNPQ / A colapsibilidade dos solos é um fenômeno típico de solos porosos, quando saturados apresentam variação de volume, podendo provocar danos significativos nas obras de engenharia, comprometendo total ou parcialmente estas obras. A ocorrência de solos colapsíveis é observado em vários municípios do Estado de Pernambuco, e em particular no Município de Petrolina. A investigação geotécnica e o entendimento de como se processa o fenômeno é imprescindível para a elaboração de projetos e a diminuição de possíveis danos às construções assentadas sobre esse tipo de solo. O objetivo desse trabalho é avaliar a variação de volume e de resistência de ponta com e sem inundação em solo compactado. A variação de volume devido à inundação foi avaliada utilizando ensaios edométricos simples e duplo e a resistência de ponta por meio de penetrômetro estático, em solo de um Conjunto Habitacional do Programa Minha Casa, Minha Vida, localizado no Município de Petrolina-PE, nos graus de compactação de 80%, 85%, 90% e 95% e nas umidades natural (0,22%), 4,00% e 7,00%. O solo é essencialmente arenoso com mais de 90% de sua composição de areia, fração argilosa < 8% e praticamente sem presença de silte. O solo é mau graduado (CU < 5%), não liquido e não plástico, se enquadra no grupo SM (Areia Siltosa) na classificação do SUCS o valor máximo do potencial de colapso atingido nos ensaios edométricos simples foi de 13,41% na tensão de 640 kPa no solo com GC 80% e umidade de 4,00% e o valor mínimo foi de 0,24,00% na tensão de 10 kPa, GC 95% e umidade de 7,00%. Os valores dos potenciais de colapso (CP) diminuem com o acréscimo de umidade inicial e grau de compactação. A sua resistência de ponta cresce com o aumento do grau de compactação, umidade e profundidade, atingindo valor de 19,17 MPa para GC = 95% e umidade 7,00%. Há perda de resistência de ponta durante o processo de inundação que depende da umidade inicial e grau de compactação e há acréscimo, no solo saturado após o colapso. A variação de volume e a resistência de ponta devido à variação de inundação são influenciadas pelo grau de compactação e umidade inicial do solo. / The collapsibility soil is a typical phenomenon of porous soil when saturated present volume variation, which can cause significant damage to the engineering works, committing all or part of these works. The occurrence of collapsible soils is observed in several municipalities in the state of Pernambuco, and in particular in the city of Petrolina. Geotechnical investigation and understanding of how processes if the phenomenon is essential for the development of the project and the reduction of possible damage to buildings settled on this type of soil. The aim of this study is to evaluate the change in volume and tip resistance with flooding in compacted soil. The volume change due to flooding was assessed using single and double oedometric tests and tip resistance through static penetrometer in soil of a housing program of the Minha Casa, Minha Vida, located in the city of Petrolina, in degrees compretion of 80%, 85%, 90% and 95% and the natural moisture (0.22%), 4.00% and 7.00%. The soil is mainly sandy with more than 90% of its sand composition, clay fraction < 8% and virtually no presence of silt. The soil is poorly Graduate (CU <5%), not liquid and not plastic, falls within the SM group (silty sand) in classification SUCS. collapsing the maximum value of the potential in achieving simple oedometric assays was 13.41% at 640 kPa in the ground stress to GC 80% moisture and 4.00% and the minimum value was 0, 24,00% at 10 kPa pressure, GC 95% and humidity of 7.00%. The values of the collapse potential (CP) decrease with the initial moisture increase and degree of compaction. Its tip resistance increases with increasing the degree of compaction, humidity and depth, reaching a value of 19.17 MPa GC = 95% moisture and 7.00%. There is loss of peak strength during the flooding process that depends on the initial moisture content and degree of compaction and there is an increase in the saturated soil after collapse. The volume change and the tip resistance due to flood variations are influenced by the degree of compaction and soil initial moisture.

A presente pesquisa foi desenvolvida com o intuito de agregar alguns procedimentos ao Ensaio SPT, para se obter um maior número de parâmetros para o dimensionamento de fundações, visto que este ensaio é o tipo de investigação de subsolo mais utilizado no Brasil para este fim. Os procedimentos adicionados foram: medida de eficiência do equipamento e ensaio de arrancamento do amostrador em cada camada distinta de solo atravessado. Foram realizados nove ensaios de arrancamento do amostrador, em três furos de sondagem, nas profundidades de dois, cinco e dez metros (três camadas de solos distintas). Em um quarto furo foram realizadas duas provas de carga à compressão no amostrador (nas profundidades de dois e cinco metros) para determinação da eficiência do equipamento. Por meio destes ensaios foi possível obter: a resistência de ponta do ensaio SPT, a resistência por atrito lateral na face externa do amostrador, e a razão de atrito do ensaio SPT, que pode ser usada para a classificação de solo de modo similar ao utilizado para o ensaio de cone. Além destes resultados, neste trabalho foi também analisada a relação entre a resistência por atrito interna e externa no amostrador durante o ensaio, conhecida por a. Esta relação mostrou-se maior para a camada de solo com grande porcentagem de pedregulho e menor para a camada que apresentava maior porcentagem de argila. Foi observado também que o valor de a cresce linearmente com a razão entre o valor de NSPT e a tensão vertical efetiva na profundidade do ensaio. Os resultados deste trabalho também mostraram que o valor da razão entre a resistência de ponta do ensaio SPT (qSPT) e o valor de NSPT é único para o mesmo tipo de solo. Além disso, os valores encontrados nesta pesquisa da razão qSPT/ NSPT são próximos aos valores da razão entre a resistência de ponta do ensaio de cone e o NSPT encontrados na literatura. / This research was developed in order to add some procedures to the SPT test, to obtain new parameters for the design of foundations, since this test is the most used in Brazil for this purpose. The additional measurements are: the energy delivered to the rod during a hammer impact, and the sampler\'s shaft resistance known from static uplift. For this investigation, nine uplift tests were conducted on the SPT sampler, in three boreholes, at three different depths (two, five and ten meters) to the determination of the SPT side friction resistance. Additionally, two compressive static load tests were carried out on the sampler in a fourth borehole to the determination of the efficiency of the SPT equipment. The results showed that the SPT test could provide measurements of end bearing and side friction resistances. Also, a SPT normalized friction ratio was determined for the classification of soil in a similar way used based on CPT data. In addition, the ratio between the internal and the external skin friction in the sampler during the test, known as \"a\" was analyzed. The values of this ratio were higher for the soil with higher percentage of gravel, and smaller for the soil with higher percentage of fines. Additionally, the \"a\" value increases linearly with the ratio between the NSPT value and the effective vertical stress at the tested depth. The results of the ratio between the SPT end bearing resistance and the NSPT found in this research are of similar magnitude to the ratios between CPT end bearing resistance and the NSPT found in the literature.

A presente pesquisa foi desenvolvida com o intuito de agregar alguns procedimentos ao Ensaio SPT, para se obter um maior número de parâmetros para o dimensionamento de fundações, visto que este ensaio é o tipo de investigação de subsolo mais utilizado no Brasil para este fim. Os procedimentos adicionados foram: medida de eficiência do equipamento e ensaio de arrancamento do amostrador em cada camada distinta de solo atravessado. Foram realizados nove ensaios de arrancamento do amostrador, em três furos de sondagem, nas profundidades de dois, cinco e dez metros (três camadas de solos distintas). Em um quarto furo foram realizadas duas provas de carga à compressão no amostrador (nas profundidades de dois e cinco metros) para determinação da eficiência do equipamento. Por meio destes ensaios foi possível obter: a resistência de ponta do ensaio SPT, a resistência por atrito lateral na face externa do amostrador, e a razão de atrito do ensaio SPT, que pode ser usada para a classificação de solo de modo similar ao utilizado para o ensaio de cone. Além destes resultados, neste trabalho foi também analisada a relação entre a resistência por atrito interna e externa no amostrador durante o ensaio, conhecida por a. Esta relação mostrou-se maior para a camada de solo com grande porcentagem de pedregulho e menor para a camada que apresentava maior porcentagem de argila. Foi observado também que o valor de a cresce linearmente com a razão entre o valor de NSPT e a tensão vertical efetiva na profundidade do ensaio. Os resultados deste trabalho também mostraram que o valor da razão entre a resistência de ponta do ensaio SPT (qSPT) e o valor de NSPT é único para o mesmo tipo de solo. Além disso, os valores encontrados nesta pesquisa da razão qSPT/ NSPT são próximos aos valores da razão entre a resistência de ponta do ensaio de cone e o NSPT encontrados na literatura. / This research was developed in order to add some procedures to the SPT test, to obtain new parameters for the design of foundations, since this test is the most used in Brazil for this purpose. The additional measurements are: the energy delivered to the rod during a hammer impact, and the sampler\'s shaft resistance known from static uplift. For this investigation, nine uplift tests were conducted on the SPT sampler, in three boreholes, at three different depths (two, five and ten meters) to the determination of the SPT side friction resistance. Additionally, two compressive static load tests were carried out on the sampler in a fourth borehole to the determination of the efficiency of the SPT equipment. The results showed that the SPT test could provide measurements of end bearing and side friction resistances. Also, a SPT normalized friction ratio was determined for the classification of soil in a similar way used based on CPT data. In addition, the ratio between the internal and the external skin friction in the sampler during the test, known as \"a\" was analyzed. The values of this ratio were higher for the soil with higher percentage of gravel, and smaller for the soil with higher percentage of fines. Additionally, the \"a\" value increases linearly with the ratio between the NSPT value and the effective vertical stress at the tested depth. The results of the ratio between the SPT end bearing resistance and the NSPT found in this research are of similar magnitude to the ratios between CPT end bearing resistance and the NSPT found in the literature.

The static cone penetration tests are quite extensively used for carrying out in-situ geotechnical investigations both for onshore and offshore sites especially where the soil mass is expected to comprise of either soft to medium stiff clays or loose to medium dense sands. The wide use of the cone penetration tests (CPT) in geotechnical engineering has resulted in a great demand for developing necessary correlations between the cone penetration resistance and different engineering properties of soils. The successful interpretation of the cone penetration test data depends mainly on the various empirical correlations which are often derived with the help of a controlled testing in calibration chambers. The calibration chambers have been deployed in various sizes (diameter varying from 0.55 m to 2.10 m) by a number of researchers. It is quite an expensive and time consuming exercise to carry out controlled tests in a large size calibration chamber. The task becomes even much more difficult when a sample comprising of either silt or clay has to be prepared. As a result, most of the reported cone penetration tests in calibration chambers are mainly performed in a sandy material. Taking into account the various difficulties associated with performing tests in large calibration chambers, in the present study, it is attempted to make use of a miniature static cone penetrometer having a diameter of 19.5 mm. This cone was gradually penetrated at a uniform rate in a triaxial cell in which a soil sample of a given material was prepared; the diameter of the cone was intentionally chosen smaller so that the ratio of the diameter of the cell to that of the cone becomes a little larger. Two different diameters of the cells, namely, 91 mm and 140 mm, were used to explore the effect of the ratio of chamber (cell) size to that of the cone size. In addition, the rate of penetration rate was also varied from 0.6 mm/minute to 6.0 mm/minute (the maximum possible rate for the chosen triaxial machine with the larger cell) to examine the effect of the rate of the penetration of the miniature cone on the tip resistance. By using the chosen experimental setup, a large number of static miniature cone penetrometer tests were carried out on four different materials, namely, (i) clean sand, (ii) sand with 15% silt, (iii) sand with 25% silt, and (iv) sand with 15% fly ash. The cone tip resistance for each material was obtained for a wide range of three different relative densities. The effective vertical pressure (σv) for the tests on different samples was varied in between 100 kPa and 300 kPa. The variations of the tip resistance with axial deformation in all the cases were monitored so as to find the magnitude of the ultimate tip resistance. In contrast to the standard cone, the diameter of the piston shaft was intentionally kept a little smaller than that of the cone itself so as to restrict the development of the piston resistance. For each cell (chamber) size, two different sizes of the pistons were used to assess the resistance offered by the penetration of the piston shaft itself. It was noted that the resistance offered by the chosen piston shaft is not very substantial as compared to that of the cone tip itself. Most of the experimental observations noted from the present experiments were similar to those made by the penetration of the standard size cone in a large calibration chamber. The ultimate tip resistance of the cone was found to increase invariably with an increase in the magnitude of σv. An increase in the relative density of the soil mass leads to an increase in the value of qcu. For the same range of relative densities, an addition of fly ash in the sample of sand, leads to a considerable reduction in the magnitude of qcu. Even with the addition of 25% silt, the values of qcu were found to become generally lower as compared to clean sand and sand added with 15% silt. An employment of a larger ratio of the diameter of the cell to that of the miniature cone leads to an increased magnitude of qcu. An increase in the penetration rate from 0.6 mm/min to 6.0 mm/min, was found to cause a little increase in the magnitude of qcu especially for sand added with fly ash and silt. The effect of the penetration rate on the results was found to increase continuously with a reduction in the rate of penetration. At higher penetration rates, in a range closer to those normally employed in the field (20 mm/sec), it is expected that the rate of penetration of the cone will not have any substantial effects on the magnitude of qcu for clean sands. The magnitude of qcu obtained in this thesis at different values of σv for all the cases with the use of the miniature cone were compared with the two widely used correlations in literature. It is found that except for dense sands, in most of the cases, the present experimental data lie generally in between the two correlation curves from literature; for dense sands the measured values of qcu were found to be significantly lower than the chosen correlation curves. It was noted that with the use of the miniature cone penetrated in a given sample prepared in a triaxial cell, it is possible to obtain reasonably an accurate estimate of the tip resistance of the standard cone especially for loose to medium dense states of all the materials. Further, from the analysis of all the tests results, it was noted that approximately a linear correlation between qcu/σv and soil friction angle (φ) for different chosen materials exists provided the dependency of the φ on the stress level is taken into account. As compared to the standard cone penetrometer which is usually employed in the field, the miniature cone used in this study is expected to provide a little conservative estimate, of the tip resistance of the standard static cone penetrometer with reference to the different materials used in this study on account of the facts that (i) there is a reduced area behind the cone, (ii) the ratio of the diameter of the calibration chamber (cell) to that of cone is not very high, (iii) the chosen size of the cone is smaller than the standard cone, and (iv) the chosen penetration rate is much smaller than the standard rate of penetration. Further, in the case of clean sand, an attempt has also been made in this thesis, with the help of a number of direct shear tests at different stress levels, to generate an expression correlating peak friction angle, critical state friction angle, relative density of sand and vertical effective stress. A correlation has been generated with the help of which, the value of peak dilatancy angle can be obtained from the known values of peak friction angle and critical state friction angle. In confirmation with the available information in literature, this exercise on clean sand has clearly indicated that a decrease in the magnitude of vertical effective stress leads to an increase in the values of both peak friction angles and peak dilatancy angles.

[Truncated abstract] This research has studied the penetration and extraction resistance profiles of different types of penetrometers in soft clay. The penetrometers of interest include the cone, T–bar, ball and plate. Effects of the surface roughness and aspect ratio of the T–bar penetrometer on its resistance have also been investigated. Undrained shear strength, Su, profiles derived from the penetration tests are compared with the shear strengths measured from field vane shear tests and laboratory (triaxial and simple shear) tests. Both in situ and centrifuge model penetration tests were undertaken for the research. In addition, ‘undisturbed’? tube samples were retrieved from both the field and the centrifuge strongbox samples (after completion of the centrifuge tests) for laboratory testing. The in situ testing was carried out in Western Australia, at the Burswood site near Perth, with tests including cone, T–bar, ball and plate penetrometer tests, and vane shear tests. Interestingly, the T–bar, ball and plate (‘full-flow’) penetrometers showed a narrow band of resistance profiles both during penetration and extraction, with a range of around 15 % between the highest and lowest profiles and standard deviation of 15 %. However, the cone penetrometer gave similar resistance at shallow depths but increasingly higher penetration resistance at depths greater than 7 m – a phenomenon that is also common in offshore results. During extraction, the cone penetrometer gave a higher resistance profile than the full–flow penetrometers for much of the depth of interest. The Su profile measured directly from the vane shear tests falls within the Su profiles derived from the penetration resistances of the full–flow penetrometers, using a single bearing factor, N = 10.5 (the value originally suggested in the literature for a T–bar penetration test). Again, the cone penetrometer demonstrated diverging results, requiring two separate values for the cone factor, Nkt (10.5 initially increasing to 13 for depths below 10 m) in order to give Su similar to the vane shear tests. This highlights the possible variability of the cone factor with depth. Cyclic penetration and extraction tests were performed at specific depths for each fullflow penetrometer. These tests comprised displacement cycles of ±0.5 m about the relevant depth, recording the penetration and extraction resistances over five full cycles. The results may be used to derive the remoulded strength and sensitivity of the soil. Laboratory tests such as triaxial and simple shear tests were performed on ‘undisturbed’ tube samples retrieved from the same site to evaluate the in situ shear strengths in the laboratory. However, the resulting Su data were rather scattered, much of which may be attributed to variable sample quality due to the presence of frequent shell fragments and occasional silt lenses within the test samples. In general, N factors for the full–low penetrometers, back–calculated using Su values measured from the simple shear tests, fell mainly in a range between 9.7 and 12.8 (between 10.4 and 12.2 for the standard size T–bar (250 mm x 40 mm))