Verificação da aplicabilidade de tecnologia GNSS para o monitoramento de deslocamentos horizontais em barragens de concreto

Abstract

The security of the civil undertakings has become predominant factor in the economical viability of the enterprises, because it impacts the price of the collected insurances. Inside this context, one of the important aspects that are being considered in the preparation of a project, especially in that of great structures, is the instrumentation. So, while negotiating with great dams, the concatenation of the civil instrumentation with the geodetic one is made necessary. One of the geodetic methods used for the checking of the stability of a structure is the resection, which consists of the measurement of the distances between the stations of reference, with known and stable coordinates, and the targets. This measurement presupposes, also, the intervisibility between the stations of reference and between sets stations of white-reference. So, the stations must be installed in the proximities of the dam and on healthy rock, out of the polygon of deformation predicted for the rocky substrate, which not always is possible. In this form, because of not needing intervisibility between any stations, the methodology GNSS is applicable same that the incident of emerged and healthy rock is removed of the dam, not mattering if to amount or downstream. The inquiry intends to prove the compatibility between the measurements carried out by resection and GNSS; proving, so, the viability of the use of the GNSS for the monitorament of dams, independently of the structural adopted solution