Pile Integrity

Sonic Test (PIT): By transmiting an impact wave over the pile head, it is feasible to obtain sufficient information so tha - once processed with specific software - it allows detecting the depth of th tip and the existence of irregularities in the sectins alongthe shaft.

Ultrasonic Test (CSL): This methodology requires the installation in the concrete mass of piles or diaphragm walls cast in situ, a minimun nomber of tubes of sufficient size for the passage of ultrasonic pulse emiting and capturing probes, whose signal in processed by a specific program, allows you to obtain an idea of the quality of the concrete and the possible presence of cuts or irregularities in the filling process.

Dynamic load test (DLT): The pile is auscultated by the impact of a weight roportional to the working load to be corroborated, which produces the propagation of a stress wave whose acceleration and deformation signals are captured by sensors, stored by th equipment and accumulated for processing with the specific CASE software. Then with the CAPWAP software, which carries out a modeling of the soil and the pile and simulates the behavior of the assembly during the impact. Force and speed curves very similar to those actually measured in the on-site test are obtained, and a load diagram is deduced.

Sclerometry: The sclerometer is a measuring instrument used to determine the compressive strength in concrete, whether in pillars, beams, slabs, walls, pavements. The operation is very simple, since it consists of measuring on a scale graduated, of the rebound suffered by a mass that is projected against the surface of the concrete when a previously compressed spring is released