SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTION: ANALYSIS OF A CASE OF WORK IN RECIFE, PERNAMBUCO
Soil-structure interaction. SSI. geotechnics. Substructure Method.
This dissertation presents a case of work contemplating an analysis of soil-structure interaction (ISE) in a building located in the city of Recife, state of Permanbuco. The study included an analysis of the behavior of the structure in two hypotheses, basically: non-displaceable supports (original design hypothesis) and considering a soil-structure interaction (ISE) through elastic supports. The building analyzed was the production engineering building located on the Recife campus of the Federal University of Pernambuco - UFPE, consisting of four floors, containing a teacher's room, computer labs, administrative rooms, meeting rooms and bathrooms, having an area built approximately 2,570 m². Initially, a linear elastic three-dimensional modeling in finite elements of the structure was performed, considering a hypothesis of non-displaceable supports, seeking to represent the loads of the original design, according to the load plan of the foundations. From this, the settlement estimate was performed using the method of Aoki-Lopes (1975) without considering the rigidity of the structure, based on the Substructure Method methodology. The methodology used by Aoki (1989; 1997) was used with the use of the Winkler spring model to consider a soil-structure interaction. Distorted settlements delivered with and without a soil-structure interaction are compared and accordingly in accordance with the state of the building, as inspected. It was evaluated how changes in the efforts of the parts follow in both analyzed hypotheses, as well as the influence of the ISE on the global stability parameters of the building, in particular, the Gamma-Z parameter. It was found that, even with the simplifications adopted and justified in the stages of the study, the results of the numerical analysis were able to explain the structural behavior of the building, where as a result of the analyzes they point to the importance of the soil-structure interaction for the geotechnical behavior and structural of the building.