Manifestações patológicas na muralha da Ladeira da Montanha – Salvador/BA

Abstract

The retaining walls are strutuctures that guarantee soil mass stability to the massif, and the continuous expansion of the cities makes these constructions more and more recurrent in the daily lives of the municipalities, due to the expansion of territorial occupation without planning to trigger in appropriate areas susceptible to soil movements Like any building over time, as retaining walls they are also susceptible to degradation due to aggressive agents, which generate symptoms as a form of pathological manifestations, especially in old retaining walls. This work was a visual inspection using the Google Street View tool to observe the recurrence of pathological manifestations, and other external factors that may interfere with the performance of the retaining wall of the Ladeira da Montanha located in the city of Salvador, Bahia. It also carried out a historical comparison of the records in previous years to observe the dynamics of maintenance carried out on the building. To the data and look made out, any any data that possible if all using the mapping and the corresponding percentages to the index of that and found over, will the major recurrence of mold / and or spontaneous mold and plants. The maintenance of cleanliness in the history of the years does not maintain a constancy to keep the building free from the development of the plants. Observing a retaining walls in undesirable degradation and insufficient maintenance to solve the identified problems.