The installation grounds were quite muddy, making it difficult to have a clean installation in the boreholes. Furthermore, since the installation was close to a busy highway, heavy salt settled over the area after snowstorms. All the installations required special traffic rated utility vault and ABS boxes to house the data loggers and interface unit for long term protection and correct readings. It was also difficult to keep the boreholes open during the caving in of gravel layers.
Encardio-rite planned instrumentation and monitoring program to address the deficiencies and issues mentioned in the maintenance report. The rehabilitation work was carried out to investigate the movement pattern for both west and east of the bridge abutments. The sub-surface deformation data and the change in pore water pressures under the bridge abutments were recorded. The scope of work included the supply of geotechnical instruments, installation of geotechnical instruments, automatic monitoring with compact dataloggers and an online web-based data management system (WDMS) with pre-set alarms.
Assam, India
Allahabad, India