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O objetivo principal deste estudo foi avaliar o potencial de uso do Deflectômetro de Impacto Leve (LFWD) para medir deflexões em pavimentos urbanos. Para isso, avaliaram-se medidas de deflexões aferidas pelo LFWD, viga Benkelman (VB) e o ensaio de carga com placa (PL) em pavimentos construídos com diferentes materiais, espessuras de revestimento asfáltico e idades de operação. Determinaram-se modelos de regressão linear, que relacionaram as medidas de deflexão entre o LFWD e a VB, e o PL. Os resultados mostraram que não houveram boas relações lineares em estruturas compostas por camadas de revestimento asfáltico mais espessas, como também em estruturas com revestimento asfáltico sobre paralelepípedos. Houve boa relação linear em estruturas compostas por revestimento asfáltico mais delgado. Este estudo estimula o uso de equipamentos dinâmicos de ensaios não destrutivos para medição de deformações elásticas para o projeto de manutenção e reabilitação de vias de baixo volume de tráfego.

The influence of factors controlling the rate of penetration during piezocone tests (CPTU) is addressed in the present paper, including a critical appraisal of measurements adopted as input in existing dimensionless analysis. From a heuristic approach, a method is proposed to identify possible consolidation effects taking place during penetration using the velocity factor, [Formula: see text]. Defined as a direct function of probe size, d, penetration rate, v, and dissipation time, t50, the dimensionless velocity factor [Formula: see text] is used to demonstrate that normalisation of cone penetration velocity is an important step for assessment of soil properties and for comparative performance of data from different geomaterials. An application is reported to illustrate the normalisation of measured data in soils within the permeability range from 10−5 to 10−8 m/s.

This paper describes a proposed testing procedure and interpretation method for the characterization of silts using the flat dilatometer test (DMT). This method aims to compensate for errors that are introduced by the partial-drainage conditions that take place around the DMT blade. In transient soils, the after-installation DMT readings change continuously with time because excess pore pressure dissipation. By monitoring the variation in A-readings, it is possible to extrapolate the results back to the origin to estimate an equivalent undrained A0 value. In addition, in seeking to obtain a closed-form solution for the membrane expansion problem in the elastic regime, a simple correction is introduced in the analysis where the B-reading is expressed in terms of average mean stresses that take place prior to expansion. Preliminary results in clay demonstrate that the method is effective and can be introduced in practice with minimal costs by considering simple adaptations to procedures originally developed for clay.