Análisis comparativo entre la determinación de la resistencia de suelos cohesivos del norte de Guayaquil por medio de penetrómetro de bolsillo y compresión simple.

Abstract

Being Guayaquil a city in which soft soils predominate product of deltaic-estuarine deposits, for all civil engineering designs it is necessary to study soils due to its geographical location and deficiency in well- graded soils. The determination of resistance parameters for subsequent design of different foundations is really important. Furthermore, that´s the reason why it is necessary to obtain the resistance of the soils from the north of Guayaquil through two different tests and one through SPT correlation. The unconfined compression test and the pocket penetrometer are basic tests in the physical mechanical characterization of materials and are constantly used in the field of geotechnics. The identification of the differences in the values obtained is essential to define the most suitable test for the selection of parameters. However, all the tests carried out for the present study are done in laboratory following ASTM standards. Once the resistance Qu of clay has been determined, tables are obtained to establish a comparison between test and thus be able to define the optimal parameter to carry out construction design.