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Orientador: Cássio Eduardo Lima de Paiva / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Civil, Arquitetura e Urbanismo / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-21T07:27:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ribeiro_LucianaMoreiraBarbosa_M.pdf: 6606072 bytes, checksum: be0b213776c0c45a6f26eba0f4ace025 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Resumo: Nos últimos anos o transporte aéreo cresceu expressivamente tanto no cenário nacional como mundial. Assim, a preocupação com a ocorrência de acidentes envolvendo aeronaves também é crescente. Parte significativa dos acidentes aéreos no Brasil e no mundo ocorre em solo, ou seja, na fase de decolagem, aterrissagem ou rolagem da aeronave, podendo estar associados com a aderência entre o pneu e o pavimento. Para a obtenção de uma adequada aderência pneu-pavimento, principalmente em pistas molhadas, a macrotextura da superfície do pavimento deve proporcionar um adequado potencial de drenagem, de forma a eliminar água pelos seus micros canais. O presente trabalho tem como objetivo estudar um método de ensaio de drenabilidade que possa ser empregado de forma sistemática em aeroportos brasileiros de pequeno e médio porte como forma adicional de controlar a segurança operacional com adequada repetitividade e reprodutividade, utilizando-se um equipamento do tipo outflow meter. Deste modo, primeiramente foram executados testes do ensaio com o equipamento em quatro tipos de revestimentos distintos. Para a verificação da repetitividade e da reprodutividade do equipamento foram realizados ensaios de drenabilidade de pavimentos, em três aeroportos de pequeno e médio porte do Estado de São Paulo. Também foi realizado um estudo comparativo da medida indireta de macrotextura obtida por meio da drenabilidade superficial do pavimento com o equipamento do tipo outflow meter e o método tradicionalmente empregado no Brasil para obtenção da macrotextura do revestimento, o ensaio de mancha de areia. O ensaio se mostrou rápido, de simples operação, de baixo custo e com adequada repetitividade e reprodutividade. Além disso, o ensaio em estudo apresentou uma boa correlação com o método da mancha de areia, indicando potencial para a medição da macrotextura do pavimento. Através da correlação obtida foi possível estabelecer um parâmetro adicional para se determinar o momento de realizar uma ação corretiva em pavimentos aeroportuários através do ensaio com o equipamento outflow meter, observando-se o tempo de escoamento limite / Abstract: In recent years, air travel has grown significantly in both the national and global scenarios. Thus, there is also a growing concern for accidents involving aircrafts. A significant portion of the aircraft accidents in Brazil and worldwide occur on the ground, more specifically during takeoff or landing, and may be associated with the adhesion between the aircraft's tire and the pavement. To obtain a proper tire-pavement friction, especially on wet runways, the macrotexture of the pavement should provide adequate drainage potential in order to remove water through the pavement's micro-channels. This study aims to define the criteria and methods of analysis, with reasonable reproducibility and repeatability, for the adherence and drainability of airport pavements in order to provide safe operating conditions during rainfall in small and medium size Brazilian airports. First, tests were conducted to measure the pavement's drainage using equipment such as the outflow meter in four different types of pavement. News tests were conducted to measure the pavement's drainage using the aforementioned equipment in three small and medium airports in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, to measure the reproducibility and repeatability of the tests. In addition, the testing procedure using the outflow meter equipment will be validated through a detailed study of a comparative study of the indirect measurements of the macrotextures using the outflow meter in relation to the ones obtained through the sandpatch tests, a traditional method for determining macrotexture commonly used in Brazil. The criteria and methods of analysis proved to be fast, of simple operation, low cost, and with adequate repeatability and reproducibility. Furthermore, the criteria and methods of analysis were correlated with the sandpatch method, indicating a good potential for measuring the pavement's macrotexture. An additional parameter for determining the time to take a corrective action on airport pavements by using the outflow meter equipment, observing the flow time limit. The obtained correlation allowed for establishing an additional parameter for determining when a corrective action on the airport's pavement is necessary by using the outflow meter equipment for observing the flow time limit / Mestrado / Transportes / Mestra em Engenharia Civil

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Increasing popularity of offsite modular construction has increased demand for transportation of very large (1000-3000 tonne) indivisible loads. Crossing poor soils presents a serious risk of ground failure, particularly as larger vehicles’ greater influence depths produce a very different soil response to conventional vehicles. Temporary haul roads designed conventionally may be excessively conservative and unaffordable as a temporary asset; cost reduction through observational risk management is sought. This thesis experimentally investigates soft silt and clay soils through cyclic triaxial testing. Particular focus is given to anisotropically normally consolidated silt, carefully manufactured through slurry consolidation to replicate liquefiable fabric. Soil samples are tested under the unusual loading conditions associated with heavy haul roads (slow, large-strain, infrequent). A new design approach for temporary heavy haul roads is demonstrated: cyclic traffic load can be used to improve soil, either by gradually rearranging fabric (medium-strain treatment) or remoulding and consolidating excess pore water pressure (large-strain treatment). Liquefiable silt benefits from both, plastic clay only from the latter. These findings, combined with a robust monitoring regime and management of heavy traffic, could be used to improve soil strength over time during operations. This could realise significant project savings and increase viability of modular construction.