Reservoir Mapping and Survey of Aggregates for Concrete Mixer - Phase II

Abstract

This article is the result of the research and studies of the aggregates in various sites of exploitation of the high, low and center valleys of the Department of Cochabamba. As a reference, in the Phase I of the project we investigated the properties of the aggregates in 10 deposits, during the years 2004 to 2008 the survey was made in the following deposits: Parotani, Pankuruma, Viloma, Khora, Pahirumani, Step, Tolavi, Cliza, Sacaba and Punata. In Phase 11 the study continues only in the best deposits classified as the main, during the 2009 management until the year 2013, the excavations catalogd are: Parotani, Pankuruma, Khora, Step and Paracaya Punata. The study of these alluvial deposits has allowed establishing the quality and quantity of aggregates that are deposited in the riverbed (area of study) deposits, cited, obtaining representative samples of aggregates of each tank. The final result exteriorizara the site more efficient far use in concrete mixes, compliance with the international standards of the American Society far Testing and Materials (ASTM) in force in our country.
lt was also supported by a database with the physical and mechanical properties of these deposits it should be noted that in the present project involved various groups of students of the career of Civil Engineering of the Universidad del Valle, who gained experience in the exploration of aggregates, developing methodologies and lithologic description in the samples representative of added "in situ" and its posterior analysis in the lab.