Comportamento dos aterros que compõem a obra do Arco Metropolitano do Rio de Janeiro.

Abstract

The present work aims to analyze instrumented embankments behavior that composes the Rio de Janeiro s Arco Metropolitano construction. Field instruments results will be discussed and reanalyzed, altogether with data available in literature, seeking to define reliable parameters, representative of the compressible clay behavior into the studied area. The Rio de Janeiro s Arco Metropolitano is a road designed to work as a link between the five major highways that cross Rio de Janeiro city. Given to the work s magnitude and the occurrence of significant thickness of soft soil in some parts of the region, some landfills that form the highway were instrumented with inclinometers and settlement plates installed in different monitoring stations in order to evaluate the vertical and horizontal landfill during the construction process. Armed with reliable parameters, it will be carried out to the numerical simulation of the construction process of a landfill, from the program PLAXIS, of finite elements. The numerical results will be compared with field instrumentation (provided by boards of repression) and the results of theoretical predictions (one-dimensional consolidation theory). In projects of embankments on compressible soil, geotechnical instrumentation is very important because it allows following the development of the entire construction process and the deformations due to overload imposed by the release of embankment layers. The imposition of a load on soils high compressibility and low resistance can lead to large deformations over time and undesirable disruptions in foundation soil. Concerning the numerical modeling, results proved to be a suitable tool to total settlements and times of consolidation prediction. The representative parameters definition, based on tests performed on good quality samples, is the first step for predicting the development of coherent repression with time. The reanalysis of the embankments behavior on soft soil permits the revaluation of the premises of the project, since the theory limitations of analysis and the difficulty in selecting parameters often leads to inconsistent estimates of repression with field observations.