Contribuição à inspeção, diagnóstico e procedimento de reabilitação de poste de concreto armado centrifugado utilizado em telefonia celular. / Contribution to the inspection, diagnosis and rehabilitation procedure of centrifugally cast concrete post used in telecomunication market.

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

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Precast reinforced concrete posts were installed in Brazil by mobile telephone companies when implanting and enlarging service areas of the system starting in 1996. The great majority of these posts were manufactured by a single company, using a centrifugal process. Approximately two thousand units of posts were produced of heights ranging between 20m [60 ft] and 60 m [197 ft]. Some of those posts collapsed after three or four years of use, reportedly being known of four cases, located in the states of São Paulo, Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro and Rio Grande do Sul. All of the known collapses happened with rupture in the reinforcement development length between the first module (the one fixed to the ground) and the second module. After an extensive investigation work and diagnosis of the problem, carried out in 40 dismounted posts that had been previously stocked in the city of Santana do Parnaíba/SP, it was demonstrated that the most relevant problem found was in the development length of the reinforcement between the modules. The diagnosis pointed the fatigue due to the elevated reinforcement area at the joint area, which ranged between 8,5% to 18,2%. Those rates exceed considerably the maximum limit allowed by standards in order to guarantee adequate conditions for stress transfer in that area. The main objective of this dissertation is to demonstrate that it is possible to use the posts without need of their substitution, through a reinforcement procedure, original and safe, that corrects the initial deficiencies of the project. Several alternatives were proposed by the technical community for the solution of the problem, but none of them could satisfy the operational, economical and technical needs requested by the owners of the posts. The proposed solution consists in filling the section of the posts in the joint area with a high mechanical strength grout and a layer of carbon fiber reinforcement in order to accomplish passive confinement, therefore reducing the reinforcement rates to appropriate levels. This solution was tested in laboratory, using real scale posts already removed in order to confirm the efficiency of the proposed reinforcement procedure. All of the tests with non reinforced posts showed rupture due to failure of stress transfer in the joint area, presenting a very close rupture mechanism to the one found in practice in the posts that collapsed. All of the ruptures occurred in the reinforced posts were due to flexure in the Section III domain without any deterioration of the joint area, proving so the efficiency of the proposed reinforcement. The rehabilitation cost of the solution developed on this dissertation varies, on average, between a third and a half of the cost of replacing the structure for a metallic tower, thus providing an attractive alternative for the companies in this business, contributing to the solution of a serious national problem of engineering (applied science).

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precast rehabilitation carbon fiber concreto reinforcement reforço fibras de carbono reabilitação concrete pré-moldados

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