scholarly journals Field Study on the Waterstop of the Rodin Jet Pile Method in a Water-Rich Sandy Gravel Stratum

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 1709
Author(s):  
Chengli Guan ◽  
Yuyou Yang

Due to the increasing depths of underground urban construction, the surrounding environment and hydrogeological conditions are becoming increasingly complex, and conventional high-pressure rotary jet grouting has become unable to meet construction needs. At present, Rodin jet pile (RJP) ultra-high-pressure rotary jet grouting has been widely used as a grouting reinforcement method for deep and large foundations in silty soils, fine sands and clay strata; however, there have been no successful applications in a sandy gravel stratum with high water content (namely, water-rich sandy gravel stratum). Therefore, this paper uses the ventilating shaft in a section of the Beijing Metro as the construction background to carry out field tests on the RJP ultra-high-pressure rotary jet grouting method and waterstop in a water-rich sandy gravel stratum. Through a series of experiments monitoring the formation deformation and pore water pressure and exposing the pile diameter, pile occlusion, pile strength, and permeability of the test pile construction process, it is believed that, for the RJP ultra-high-pressure construction method in a water-rich sandy gravel stratum, reliable jet solidification can occur, the joint between jets can be achieved, the solid strength can reach 10 MPa or higher, and the permeability coefficient can reach 10−8 cm/s. Therefore, RJP ultra-high-pressure rotary jet grouting can be applied as a waterstop method in water-rich sandy gravel stratum.

2013 ◽  
Vol 353-356 ◽  
pp. 203-207
Author(s):  
Yong Kang Yang ◽  
Wu Yang ◽  
Chun Yan Feng

Yangpu Port has inhomogeneous soft soil with the properties of high water content, high void ratio, high compressibility and low shear strength. Based on soft soil ground treatment engineering practice, the geological characteristics are summarized, the ground treatment methods are comparatively analyzed, static-dynamic drainage consolidation method is chosen to treat the soft soil ground, the reinforcing mechanism of vertical and horizontal drainage system are discussed, the design of drainage system, preloading and dynamic consolidation are researched and the surface settlement monitoring, pore water pressure monitoring, side piling displacement monitoring, laboratory soil test and plate loading tests are carried out. The results show that average surface settlement is 1170.8 mm, the physical and mechanical properties of soft soil are improved and the characteristic value of foundation bearing capacity is greater than 120kPa.


Fluids ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (12) ◽  
pp. 423
Author(s):  
Alfrendo Satyanaga ◽  
Martin Wijaya ◽  
Qian Zhai ◽  
Sung-Woo Moon ◽  
Jaan Pu ◽  
...  

Tailing dams are commonly used to safely store tailings without damaging the environment. Sand tailings (also called Sediment tailings) usually have a high water content and hence undergo consolidation during their placement. As the sediment tailings are usually placed above the ground water level, the degree of saturation and permeability of the sediment tailing is associated with the unsaturated condition due to the presence of negative pore-water pressure or suction. Current practices normally focus on the analyses saturated conditions. However, this consolidation process requires the flow of water between saturated and unsaturated zones to be considered. The objective of this study is to investigate the stability and consolidation of sediment tailings for the construction of road pillars considering the water flow between saturated and unsaturated zones. The scope of this study includes the unsaturated laboratory testing of sediments and numerical analyses of the road pillar. The results show that the analyses based on saturated conditions overestimate the time required to achieve a 90% degree of consolidation. The incorporation of the unsaturated soil properties is able to optimize the design of slopes for road pillars into steeper slope angles.


2012 ◽  
Vol 170-173 ◽  
pp. 574-580 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hong Jie Li ◽  
Yan Li Jin

Underground water level rise because of irrigation has induced a lot of loess landslides in South Jingyang Plateau located in Shanxi Province, PR China. This paper presents a detailed initiation analysis of the landslides through field investigations, a series of GDS triaxial tests composed of isotropically and anisotropically consolidated undrained (ICU/ACU) compression tests and constant-shear-drained (CQD) triaxial tests for undisturbed saturated loess and numerical modeling. The tests show that the contractive failure will cause excess pore water pressure that cannot be dissipated instantly, and will result in the decrease of the shearing resistance. Shear deformation during failure moves the soil toward the critical state rapidly and make the loess completely in liquefactive condition. Therefore, the slope is prone to rapid and long run-out flow slide after failure under the action of gravity because of its high water content.


PLoS ONE ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (12) ◽  
pp. e0242413
Author(s):  
Youngjoo Lee ◽  
Daesung Kwon ◽  
Changmin Park ◽  
Myoungjae Seo ◽  
TaeWon Seo

The maintenance of buildings has become an important issue with the construction of many high-rise buildings in recent years. However, the cleaning of the outer walls of buildings is performed in highly hazardous environments over long periods, and many accidents occur each year. Various robots are being studied and developed to reduce these incidents and to relieve workers from hazardous tasks. Herein, we propose a method of spraying high-pressure water using a pump and nozzle, which differs from conventional methods. The cleaning performance parameters, such as water pressure, spray angle, and spray distance, were optimized using the Taguchi method. Cleaning experiments were performed on window specimens that were contaminated artificially. The cleaning performance of the proposed method was evaluated using the image-evaluation method. The optimum condition was determined based on the results of a sensitive analysis performed on the image data. In addition, the reaction force due to high pressure and impact force on the specimens were investigated. These forces were not sufficient to affect the propeller thrust or cause damage to the building’s surface. We expect to perform field tests in the near future based on the output of this research.


Processes ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weimin Yang ◽  
Zhongdong Fang ◽  
Hao Wang ◽  
Liping Li ◽  
Shaoshuai Shi ◽  
...  

In order to explore the catastrophic evolution process for karst cave water inrush in large buried depth and high water pressure tunnels, a model test system was developed, and a similar fluid–solid coupled material was found. A model of the catastrophic evolution of water inrush was developed based on the Xiema Tunnel, and the experimental section was simulated using the finite element method. By analyzing the interaction between groundwater and the surrounding rocks during tunnel excavation, the law of occurrence of water inrush disaster was summarized. The water inrush process of a karst cave containing high-pressure water was divided into three stages: the production of a water flowing fracture, the expansion of the water flowing fracture, and the connection of the water flowing fracture. The main cause of water inrush in karst caves is the penetration and weakening of high-pressure water on the surrounding rock. This effect is becoming more and more obvious as tunnel excavation progresses. The numerical simulation results showed that the outburst prevention thickness of the surrounding rock is 4.5 m, and that of the model test result is 5 m. Thus, the results of the two methods are relatively close to each other. This work is important for studying the impact of groundwater on underground engineering, and it is of great significance to avoid water inrush in tunnels.


2005 ◽  
Vol 51 (10) ◽  
pp. 65-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Wett ◽  
M. Demattio ◽  
W. Becker

The purpose of this paper is an experimental and model assisted investigation of the capabilities of a dewatering system for sewage sludge for decentralised sites. Laboratory and field tests are performed with different initial conditions and the influences of filter medium, initial height, initial total suspended solids, temperature and relative humidity are discussed. The experimental work shows the feasibility of geotextile media for dewatering high water content sewage sludge and that the textile structure is of secondary importance. The specific filter resistance of the sludge cake is found to be the most significant factor in dewatering applications. The mathematical description of the dewatering process is based on the superposition of two models, the Conventional Filtration Theory for the filtration phase and the BT-model for the drying phase. Feasibility and limits of the theoretical approach are evaluated by means of a comparison between measurements and simulated data of cyclic reloading tests. It is found that a better filtration efficiency is achieved at higher TSS and at lower initial height of the slurry layer. Due to the viscosity decrease, a higher temperature enhances not only evaporation, but also filtration rate.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiangying Wang

The rigid-drainage pile, designed to accelerate the dissipation of excess pore water pressure around the pile, is a new type of pile that combines the bearing capacity of ordinary rigid piles and the draining capacity of gravel piles. Field tests of these new piles were performed for the first time at a construction site in the new campus of Jiangyin No. 1 High School. Numerous parameters were observed for the test piles in many trials, including the excess pore water pressures, horizontal soil pressures, and displacements. At the measuring position at 0.6 m from the pile center, the rigid-drainage pile dissipates 70% of the peak excess pore water pressure in 1000 s, whereas the ordinary pile requires nearly 4000 s to dissipate the identical amplitude. The field test results clearly demonstrate that the rigid-drainage pile can reduce the amplitude of the peak pressure caused by piling in the liquefiable layer, quickly dissipate the excess pore water pressure, reduce the loss of effective stress in the soil surrounding the pile, and maintain the foundation stability.


Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (10) ◽  
pp. 2829
Author(s):  
Yonghong Wang ◽  
Xueying Liu ◽  
Mingyi Zhang ◽  
Suchun Yang ◽  
Songkui Sang

Prestressed high-strength concrete (PHC) pipe pile with the static press-in method has been widely used in recent years. The generation and dissipation of excess pore water pressure at the pile–soil interface during pile jacking have an important influence on the pile’s mechanical characteristics and bearing capacity. In addition, this can cause uncontrolled concrete damage. Monitoring the change in excess pore water pressure at the pile–soil interface during pile jacking is a plan that many researchers hope to implement. In this paper, field tests of two full-footjacked piles were carried out in a viscous soil foundation, the laws of generation and dissipation of excess pore water pressure at the pile–soil interface during pile jacking were monitored in real time, and the laws of variation in excess pore water pressure at the pile–soil interface with the burial depth and time were analyzed. As can be seen from the test results, the excess pore water pressure at the pile–soil interface increased to the peak and then began to decline, but the excess pore water pressure after the decline was still relatively large. Test pile S1 decreased from 201.4 to 86.3 kPa, while test pile S2 decreased from 374.1 to 114.3 kPa after pile jacking. The excess pore water pressure at the pile–soil interface rose first at the initial stage of consolidation and dissipated only after the hydraulic gradient between the pile–soil interface and the soil surrounding the pile disappeared. The dissipation degree of excess pore water pressure reached about 75–85%. The excess pore water pressure at the pile–soil interface increased with the increase in buried depth and finally tended to stabilize.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jihuan Han ◽  
Jiuqun Zou ◽  
Weihao Yang ◽  
Chenchen Hu

With the increase in shaft depth, the problem of cracks and leakage in single-layer concrete lining in porous water-rich stable rock strata has become increasingly clear, in which case the mechanism of fracturing in shaft lining remains unclear. Considering that the increase in pore water pressure can cause rock mass expansion, this paper presents the concept of hydraulic expansion coefficient. First, a cubic model containing spherical pores is established for studying hydraulic expansion, and the ANSYS numerical simulation, a finite element numerical method, was used for calculating the volume change of the model under the pore water pressure. By means of the multivariate nonlinear regression method, the regression equation of the hydraulic expansion coefficient is obtained. Second, based on the hydraulic expansion effect on the rock mass, an interaction model of pore water pressure–porous rock–shaft lining is established and further solved. Consequently, the mechanism of fracturing in shaft lining caused by high-pressure pore water is revealed. The results show that the hydraulic expansion effect on the surrounding rock increases with its porosity and decreases with its elastic modulus and Poisson’s ratio; the surrounding rock expansion caused by the change in pore water pressure can result in the outer edge of the lining peeling off from the surrounding rock and tensile fracturing at the inner edge. Therefore, the results have a considerable guiding significance for designing shaft lining through porous water-rich rock strata.


2019 ◽  
Vol 136 ◽  
pp. 01036
Author(s):  
ZHUGE Ai-jun

Based on the basic theory of vacuum preloading, this paper proposes an good effect of pressurized vacuum preloading in which the high pressure gas results in tiny cracks between the air pressurized pipe and band drain. Therefore additional drainage paths are introduced to improve the permeability of soil and accelerate soil consolidation. But field tests show that the advantages of pressurized vacuum preloading are not obvious compared with conventional vacuum preloading, and the soil settlement, soil properties and vane shear strength are slightly lower than those by conventional vacuum preloading. The vacuum pressure transmission is analysed in the air pressurized pipe and band drain as well as the dissipation of pore water pressure in the soil during the pressurization process, it is concluded that the unsatisfactory reinforcement effect is mainly due to the sealing problem between the top of the air pressurized pipe and the sand cushion, and the overlap problem between the booster pipe and band drain.


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