Inspección y evaluación de la socavación en cimentaciones de puentes y establecimiento de medidas de protección contra este fenomeno

Abstract

The present research work has for purpose to deal with the inspection and evaluation of the undermining in the foundations fingers bridges; The first is located in the Av. Ernesto Che Guevara and the second one at the sector of Charasol; The same that find on the river Burgay at Azogues city; through field research through direct observation , information was obtained that allowed get to evaluate the status of them , as part of the assessment calculations were performed in general and local scour piers and abutments.

They used the following methods for the analysis of the general undermining in the river bed: Lischtvan Levediev and Neill; They are used the methods for the analysis of the local undermining in stirrups of: Laursen, Hire and Melville and they used Carsten's methods, Larras, Laursen and Toch, Breusers, Nicollet for the analysis of the local undermining in sinks and Shen and the method of the CSU (state-owned University of red).

In order to avoid the undermining in sinks and the stirrups are offered protective measures at each bridge as they are: Implantation of walls of siege baskets, treatment with concrete and implantation of castled; these measures were designed for each of the bridges of this investigation properly.