Project: Mythenquai cable car, Zürichhorn
Pile tension and pressure test in Lake Zurich on Kidrill piles
As part of the project planning for the cable car across Lake Zurich from Mythenquai to Zürichhorn, two static pile tests were carried out on the Zürichhorn side. The tests for the foundation of the cableway supports took place at their planned locations, approx. 70-80 m from the shore. Two Kidrill piles with a total length of 48 m each and a shaft diameter of 508 mm were tested.
Tensile test
The tensile test was carried out on the test pile PPB. A construction supported by reaction piles served as an abutment. The load was applied via a hydraulic cylinder and transferred to the pile head by means of tie rods. The cylinder and the load stabiliser with hydraulic pump were connected to form a circuit.
Compression test
For the pile compression test, an identical cylinder was used as in the tensile test and placed between the pile head and the yoke. The abutment construction with the reaction piles, the hydraulic loading equipment and the measuring configuration were identical.
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Geotechnics
Geotechnics
- Decision Making in Tunneling Based on Field Measurements, Kovari 1993
- The Control of Ground Response, Milestones up to the 1960s, Kovari 2003
- Vibration measurement
- Surveillance des voies ferrées de BLS AlpTransit à Frutigen avec des capteurs inclinométriques
- Grundbau -Taschenbuch Geotechnische Messverfahren
- Risks in Tunnelling
- Instrumented test shaft in soft ground
- GEOTECHNICAL AND HYDROGEOLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS, SAFETY AND RISK IN SLOVAKIA AND SWITZERLAND
- Safety System in Urban Tunnelling; The Zimmerberg Tunnel
- Foundation analysis and restoration of a 13th century church founded on lacustrine clay
Displacements along profiles
- linewise measurements
- CLINO-Chain: Inclinometer Chain
- Trical software
- Solexperts Datenerfassung (PCD und SolLine-App)
- MRD – Manual Readout Device
Publications Sliding Micrometer and Trivec
- Gleitmikrometer, Kovari 1979
- Gleitmikrometer Gewichtsstaumauer Albignia, A. Thut 1981
- Gleitmikrometer, U-Bahn München, Kovari 1984
- Digitales Gleitmikrometer, Gleitdeformeter und Trivec
- Precision deformation measurements at large dams
- Trivec and Sliding Micrometer: fully digital instruments for geotechnical displacement and deformation measurement
- MONITORING OF DISPLACEMENT OF VIDE RANGE FOCUSED ON HISTORICAL BUILDINGS AND SLOPES
- USE OF GEOTECHNICAL MONITORING IN REMEDIATION PROJECT OF AN UNSTABLE SLOPE
- Continuous Strain Monitoring in the Rock Foundation of a Large Gavity Dam
- Monitoring the Nailed Soil Wall at Önzberg
Borehole extensometer
- SolExtensometer
- Modular-Extensometer
- Reverse Head Extensometer
- Fixed installable micrometer (FIM)
- Kontinuierliche Verformungsmessung vor der Tunnelbrust mit dem RH-Extensometer (RHX) und dem Modularen RHExtensometer (M-RHX)
- New instruments improve site characterization with time based measurements
- Displacement measurements ahead of a tunnel face using the RH Extensometer
Pile tests
- Ultrasonic measuring device
- Pile integrity tests and component tests
- Statische Pfahlbelastungsversuche Hardturmstadion Zürich
