ANALYSIS OF THE TIME COURSE OF A BRIDGE ABUTMENTS SETTLEMENT

The paper deals with the time course of the bridge abutments settlement (consolidation of the subsoil) on the motorway D4 in Stupava, Slovakia. The bridge abutments are founded on an earth embankment 5.5 meters in height and a group of piles. Over 6 years of geotechnical monitoring after the construction of bridge abutments, there were measured settlements from 102 to 106 mm. The measured settlement of intermediate bridge piers was only up to 16 mm. Geotechnical calculations and analysis are focused on the comparison of the final settlements prognosis and its time course with the real measured values.

Modeling the Load Test of Vertical Resistance of Pile

This paper deals with the modeling of the load test of vertical resistance of reinforced concrete piles. The pile is a part of a group of piles with reinforced concrete heads. The head is pressed with steel arches of a bridge on highway Jablonov - Studenec. Pile model is created in ANSYS with several models of foundation having properties found out from geotechnical survey. Finally some crucial results obtained from computer models are presented and compared with these obtained from experiment.