DISPLACEMENT MONITORING AND SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS IN THE OBSERVATIONAL METHOD

Abstract: This work discusses the fundamentals of designing deep excavation support by means of observational method. The effective tools for optimum designing with the use of the observa-tional method are both inclinometric and geodetic monitoring, which provide data for the system-atically updated calibration of the numerical computational model. The analysis included methods for selecting data for the design (by choosing the basic random variables), as well as methods for an on-going verification of the results of numeric calculations (e.g., MES) by way of measuring the structure displacement using geodetic and inclinometric techniques. The presented example shows the sensitivity analysis of the calculation model for a cantilever wall in non-cohesive soil; that analysis makes it possible to select the data to be later subject to calibration. The paper pres-ents the results of measurements of a sheet pile wall displacement, carried out by means of incli-nometric method and, simultaneously, two geodetic methods, successively with the deepening of the excavation. This work includes also critical comments regarding the usefulness of the ob-tained data, as well as practical aspects of taking measurement in the conditions of on-going con-struction works. 1. INTRODUCTION – THE SCOPE OF TH