This paper presents and discusses a limited set of results from an extensive testing program which has been
carried out since 1995 at the University of Brasília Experimental Research site. This site is underlain by the typical tropical,
unsaturated and collapsible soil deposit of the Federal District, which has been th...
During the construction of a building, a transfer of loads occurs from the columns which tend to settle more to
those that tend to settle less. This observable fact can be attributed to the mechanism called static soil-structure interaction
(SSI). In order to understand this mechanism, which is often not considered in designs, an...
The energy efficiency in SPT is generally evaluated based on the nominal drop height. Measurements of the
drop height in systems different from those used in Brazil have shown that the drop height values can be significantly
different from the nominal ones, inclusively in those systems where lifting-releasing operations are autom...
This paper presents a parametric study on erodibility of soils which occurs in Southern Brazil. Different
methodologies were carried out and soils more vulnerable to these phenomena were identified. The research lays mainly on
erodibility criteria based on infiltrability tests, weight loss by immersion, direct shear tests and mod...
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