Clasificación de suelos y análisis de estabilidad de talud del cerro San José del cantón Atahualpa provincia de El Oro.

Abstract

In the profession of Civil Engineering, at the time of planning a work, the necessary studies of the soil are made in order to prevent risks of failures in these, since over time we have had some examples, where the structures tend to fall or be inclined, among these we have the famous Tower of Pisa in Italy. On the San José hill, in the Atahualpa canton, in the Oro province, there has been a great problem of stability on its slopes for a long time, which worsens over time, caused by high periods of rainfall. In our work we focus on the study of the soil. as its typology to be able to clarify the exact keys to your problem and to be able to provide a solution to it. Once located on the site, we proceed to the extraction of the material that we are going to study through a test pit, we proceed to extract material at 50cm, 1m and 1.5m, these were excavated manually, during this work we were able to observe that in the site there are mines illegally, which could be a big problem for the population. Once the samples were obtained, we went to the Soil Mechanics laboratory of the Faculty of Civil Engineering, in order to carry out the first study, which is the moisture content for then be able to carry out the corresponding tests. Through the study and tests carried out in the laboratory, it was possible to establish the characteristics of the soil, obtaining the data that would help classify it using the AASHTO methodology.