Abordagem sobre a construção, instrumentação e operação das paredes diafragmas do sistema de barragens Gramame/Mamuaba.

Abstract

This work presents a study on the behaviour of dams constructed in the municipal district of Alhandra, PB, situated twenty kilometers to the south of the capital of Paraiba State, Joao Pessoa. Emphasis was given to the porous water pressures in the foundation of the compact and of the diaphragm walls inserted in the system. The objectiva of the sudy was to anlyse the data provided by the instruments inserted in the construction, 1 imitated by the last phases of the construction, first filling up of the resevoir and two inicial years of operat ion. In the chapter of the analysis of the pressures water filtration it was shown the evolution of it by means of the transverse sections to the dam. The behavior of the nucleus foundation contact during the period of the filling of the resevoir was shown by means of drawning in some sections of the dam. A study of the construction of the diaphragm walls, instruments utilized in the geotecnnical engineering and general arrangement of the work is presented, with the view to providing a global view of tie study.