Pipelines projects require information about subsurface conditions along their routes. This document proposes integrating geophysical surveys conducted for civil and electrical engineering aspects of such projects into a single measurement campaign. This integration would lower costs by avoiding duplicate field work and equipment use. It would also improve quality by employing specialized geophysics companies instead of smaller electrical design firms typically limited to basic soil resistivity measurements. The integrated approach uses multiple geophysical techniques like electroresistivity to generate accurate 3D subsurface models depicting layers, faults, and other features needed for project design.
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Pipelines projects require information about subsurface conditions along their routes. This document proposes integrating geophysical surveys conducted for civil and electrical engineering aspects of such projects into a single measurement campaign. This integration would lower costs by avoiding duplicate field work and equipment use. It would also improve quality by employing specialized geophysics companies instead of smaller electrical design firms typically limited to basic soil resistivity measurements. The integrated approach uses multiple geophysical techniques like electroresistivity to generate accurate 3D subsurface models depicting layers, faults, and other features needed for project design.
Pipelines projects require information about subsurface conditions along their routes. This document proposes integrating geophysical surveys conducted for civil and electrical engineering aspects of such projects into a single measurement campaign. This integration would lower costs by avoiding duplicate field work and equipment use. It would also improve quality by employing specialized geophysics companies instead of smaller electrical design firms typically limited to basic soil resistivity measurements. The integrated approach uses multiple geophysical techniques like electroresistivity to generate accurate 3D subsurface models depicting layers, faults, and other features needed for project design.
subsolo para os projetos civis e eltricos Pipelines projects require the availability of information about the subsurface along its route, for the civil and electrical designs. Geology comprises a wide range of direct methods of prospecting the soil, as SPT and rotating soundings etc. Geophysics performs these investigations using indirect methods from surface, determining soil parameters through measurement of its physical properties. The interpretation of these measures allows inferring the subsoil structure with costs quite competitive when compared with the direct methods. Among the geophysical methods available, it should be highlighted the Electroresistivity. This technique, by mean of active (injection of electrical currents in the ground) or passive resources (measuring the natural electric and magnetic fields), allows to obtain very accurate models of the subsurface, three-dimensional and with great structure resolution, depicting layers, faults, water table, rocky basement etc. Typically these surveys are conducted early in the project for the civil project. Considering that the electrical engineering design studies need electrical resistivity soil models, for the specification of cathodic protection, for interference studies where the duct line crosses with transmission lines and also for the design of grounding systems for pumping stations, city gates and other installations along the duct route, it is suggested in this paper the integration of geophysical surveys conducted for the civil and electrical engineering, in a single measurement campaign. This integration will result on lower costs with geophysical surveys, considering that the measuring teams will go to field only once. It must also be considered that the same equipments are used for the entire set of measurements. An additional benefit is that geophysics companies are usually more qualified for this type of survey, than the small companies that typically measure soil resistivity for electrical design, usually limited to small spacing Wenner measurements, which was the only one recognized by the former version of NBR-7117, specific code for the measurement of soil resistivity for electrical projects. This code has undergone extensive review and in its new 2012 version, supports a wide range of geophysical resources for conducting soil resistivity measurements and soil modeling.