Desenvolvimento de sistema eletrônico para instrumentar um DPL em ensaio dinâmico de resistência do solo

• Ano de defesa: 2014
• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Irênio Amaro da [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Automação; Equipamentos e acessórios; Geologia de engenharia; Deformações e tensões; Engineering geology
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/124523

The Dynamic Penetrometer Lightweight, known as, Dynamic Probing Light (DPL) is a portable geotechnical survey device, which came out, as an alternative tool to assist the Standard Penetration Test (SPT). Currently, it is one of the most used equipment all over the world. Although, the DPL has the potential for replacing the SPT in testing on soils with low penetration resistance, where the NNSP <5, it has not been known in the engineering field, applying little attention in the civil construction works. The purpose of this study is to instrument a DPL with electronics system intended to measure soil penetration resistance in dynamic test. This measure is due to the work of the effective energy that drives down the cone of the equipment, nailing it on the ground. It was found that the electronic system implemented in the equipment was cheaper than its similar, the results of the tests were generated in a shorter time and these findings can be used as data for foundation projects. The force and speed signals were produced on the load cells and accelerometer. In order to obtain these results, the system automatically indicated the penetration of the cone into the soil, caused by the energy involved in the process, which in turn, results from the integration of the active power output and speed of the particles (in the time domain). The objective of the study was reached, since the instrumentation of the DPL with an electronic system, enabled to evaluate the soil penetration resistance. It was found that this measure is subject to the quality of the force and the acceleration signal. This, in turn, depends on factors such as technical quality of strain sensors, load cell construction, quality of the adhesive and correct procedures on the adjustments, as well as, on the tests with the DPL instrumented equipment