The works were carried out in Bidur, a town northwest of Kathmandu, capital of Nepal.
Bidur is a city located northwest of Kathmandu, capital of Nepal, where the construction of a set of solar parks with a total of 25 MW of power is being developed. GEOINTEC mobilized a work team to accomplish the required Pull Out Test studies.
Each of the projects has in common its location in areas of alluvium and clay in distant communities, but all in the vicinity of the Trisuli River.
According to the requirements of the client GEOINTEC team set a schedule of work with 35 pull out tests and 10 electrical resistivity tests.
Despite of the difficult conditions, both the tests in the axial and the horizontal axis were successfully completed using high resistance and 2,900 mm length steel profiles.
The electrical resistivity tests of the subsoil were used, among other data, to establish the grade of galvanic protection of the steel profiles due to chemical corrosivity of the soil.
The acquired data, added to the subsequent topographic and hydrological studies, allowed the technical team of GEOINTEC to have enough information for the characterization of the soil of each project.
Orography.
One of the special characteristics of this work is the complexity of the access to the area of study. Special logistics to accomplish the project schedule are needed, with long travel times for short distances (5 hours of travel for a route of 75 km).
Climatology.
Despite the weather characteristics of the area and its location, between China and India, the central area of Nepal has a suitable climate for the construction of solar plants, as it has a high value of average insolation all over the year.
