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Final Jet Grouting
Final Jet Grouting
Visakhapatnam.
Hadi.bindaz@gmail.com
Visakhapatnam.
Jaji.cutie@gmail.com
ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION
Ground improvement is used to address a
With the ever increasing population, wide range of geotechnical engineering
there is a need to increase the available land problems, including, but not limited to, the
area for living and to serve the other needs of following:
this increasing population. But due to • Improvement of soft or loose soil to reduce
limitations in the available land, we need to use settlement, increase bearing resistance, and/or to
the useless soil by stabilizing it. This led to improve overall stability for structure and wall
major development in the field of ground foundations and/or for embankments.
improvement.
• To mitigate liquefiable soils.
There are various methods and devices
to stabilize land and one method that is • To improve slope stability for landslide
commonly used worldwide is grouting or mitigation.
injecting a liquid (cement and additives) into • To retain otherwise unstable soils.
voids within the soil, or displacing the gases. Jet • To improve workability and usability of fill
grouting is one such grouting technique which materials.
has many major applications in the field of soil • To accelerate settlement and soil shear strength
stabilization. gain.
In this paper, we investigate the various
available soil stabilization techniques and
briefly investigate on types, prospects of jet Types of ground improvement techniques
grouting and its applications in foundation include the following:
engineering. • Vibrocompaction techniques such as stone
columns and vibroflotation, and other
techniques that use vibratory probes that may or • Reduction of formation permeability under
may not include compaction of gravel in the foundations of water retaining structures, to
hole created to help densify the soil control seepage and loss of stored water.
• Deep dynamic compaction • To check the uplift on the structure and /or to
• Blast densification prevent the danger of erosion of soil from
the foundation.
• Geosynthetic reinforcement of embankments
• To increase the strength of material below
• Wick drains, sand columns, and similar methods the foundation of heavy structures and or to
that improve the drainage characteristics of the reduce the deformability of the material in the
subsoil and thereby help to remove excess pore foundation.
pressure that can develop under load applied to • Fixing of reinforcing cables in precast and
the soil prestressed concrete structures.
• Grout injection techniques and replacement of • Fixing of rock prestressing anchors.
soil with grout such as compaction grouting, jet • Lifting and erection of leaning structures and
grouting, and deep soil mixing buildings and other applications.
• Lime or cement treatment of soils to improve (Nonveiller E, 1989)
their shear strength and workability
characteristics GROUTING TECHNIQUES
• Permeation grouting and ground freezing
(temporary applications only). The various injection grouting
techniques used by grouting contractors for
GROUTING ground improvement / ground modification can
“Grouting may be defined as the injection be summarized as follows:
of appropriate materials under pressure into
Permeation grouting: Grout is injected into the
certain parts of the earth’s crust through
soil at low pressure and fills the voids without
specially constructed holes in order to fill and
significantly changing the soil’s structure or
therefore seal voids, cracks, seams, fissures or
volume. Wide varieties of binders are used with
other cavities in soils or rock strata.”(Bowen,
this grouting technique. The choice of the binder
1981) The term grouting is also widely applied
is dictated mainly by the permeability of the
to sealing of cracks in man-made structures such
soil. [Generally, water and cement mixtures are
as dams, tunnels and mine shafts.
used where the coefficient of permeability is
greater than 1 x 10-2 cm/sec. More expensive
In an attempt to achieve the intended
resin-based grouts are used for permeabilities as
purpose of the grouting exercise, boreholes are
low as 1 x 10-6 cm/sec. Soils with
drilled into the formation and the grout is
permeabilities less than 1 x 10-6 cm/sec are
injected under pressure to satisfy conditions
normally not groutable by permeation.]
specified in the design. Grouting has been put to
a variety of applications in civil engineering,
which include;
Compaction Grouting: A highly viscous grout
with high internal friction is injected into a JET GROUTING SYSTEM
compactable soil. The grout acts as a radial, Jet Grouting is a ground stabilization
hydraulic jack and physically displaces the soil procedure which uses the principle of Ultra
particles; thus achieving controlled High Pressure Injection of Cement Grout into
densification. the ground. The procedure employs a bottom-up
installation sequence. The Double Tube or
Claquage grouting: Grout is injected into the Triple Tube Pipe is rotated at a fixed RPM and
soil at a high pressure through a special valved automatically raised in fixed increments. The
tube, thereby hydrofacturing the soil. The double tube system is used in the country.
resulting fissures are filled with the grout and Cement Injection under Ultra High Pressure is
the surrounding soil is modified to create a done within a protective encapsulating conical
densified mass. shroud of compressed air. The compressed air
allows increased ground penetration (larger
Jet Grouting: This system differs substantially diameters) by preventing significant pressure
from the other ground improvement or ground drops as the Grout leaves the nozzle.
modification techniques – it breaks up the soil Due to the Ultra High Pressures
structure completely and performs deep soil involved, the permeability of the soil is of no
mixing to create a homogeneous soil, which in critical importance as the procedure relies more
turn solidifies. The jet grouting technique can be on the very high erosive power of the Jets to
used regardless of soil, permeability, or grain gain lateral Penetration. The solidified column
size distribution. In theory, it is possible to of grouted soil is termed as “Soilcrete” and the
improve most soils, from soft clays and silts to compressive strengths would depend on the
sands and gravels by jet grouting. Although it is parent soil material and can be controlled to
possible to inject any binder, in practice, water- some extent by the Jetting Procedure.
cement mixtures are normally used. Where Soilcrete columns behave as a columnar
impermeabilization of the soil is required, pile with load carrying capacity coming from
water-cement-bentonite mixtures are typically Skin Friction and Point Bearing. Typically,
used. diameters would range from 0.8m to 1.4m.
Jet Grouting is the only soil stabilization independently through a nozzle located beneath
procedure that would work equally well in the air/water nozzle.
plastic clays and granular materials although
compressive strengths and load capacity are An intermediate 2-fluid jet grouting system
typically higher in the latter material. has recently been developed to improve the
range of influence of the monofluid jet grouting
system.
Three basic jet grouting systems currently exist THE “MONOFLUID” JET GROUTING
are, SYSTEM
The monofluid jet grouting system uses the Grouting contractors use a high-pressure
binder to break up and provide soil mixing of pump to convey the binder through a drill string
the soils surrounding the drill rods. to a set of nozzles located just above the drill
bit. The high-velocity, high energy jet breaks up
The 3-fluid or Kajima jet grouting system and mixes the soil surrounding the drill string to
uses water and air to break up the soil and to create a column of stabilized material whose
produce ground modification or ground diameter ranges from 40 cm to 120 cm.
improvement by causing a partial substitution of
the finer soil particles. The binder is injected
The main equipment required for this jet THE “3-FLUID” JET GROUTING
grouting system is: SYSTEM
A high pressure, high flow pump (70 Mpa, This ground improvement / ground
300 l/min); modification technique differs from the jet
A jet grouting drill rig fitted with a special grouting monofluid system by using a high-
drill string and a suitable timer that energy jet of water rather than the binder to
accurately controls the step-raising of break up the soil surrounding the drill string.
the drill string; The passage of the jet of water through the soil
An efficient batching plant with sufficient is aided by an aureole of compressed air
capacity for the required amount of concentric about the jet.
grouting binder.
The compressed air increases the radius of
influence of the jet of water and it “lightens” the
mixture of soil and water in the zone of
influence of the jet, creating an air-lift that
pumps excess water and soil fines, through the
annular space between the borehole wall and the
dill rods, to the surface.