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    The document discusses using high workability concrete for bored pile construction. It outlines the bored piling construction process and challenges with current concreting practices. These include temporary casings and tremie pipes getting stuck, blocked tremie pipes, and honeycombing and voids in the concrete due to poor workability over long pour times. The document proposes using concrete with optimized workability to flow around reinforcement cages and maintain workability throughout long pours.

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    The document discusses using high workability concrete for bored pile construction. It outlines the bored piling construction process and challenges with current concreting practices. These include temporary casings and tremie pipes getting stuck, blocked tremie pipes, and honeycombing and voids in the concrete due to poor workability over long pour times. The document proposes using concrete with optimized workability to flow around reinforcement cages and maintain workability throughout long pours.

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    The document discusses using high workability concrete for bored pile construction. It outlines the bored piling construction process and challenges with current concreting practices. These include temporary casings and tremie pipes getting stuck, blocked tremie pipes, and honeycombing and voids in the concrete due to poor workability over long pour times. The document proposes using concrete with optimized workability to flow around reinforcement cages and maintain workability throughout long pours.

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    4 High Work Concrete BP MR Alan Wan MR CC Wai

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    The document discusses using high workability concrete for bored pile construction. It outlines the bored piling construction process and challenges with current concreting practices. These include temporary casings and tremie pipes getting stuck, blocked tremie pipes, and honeycombing and voids in the concrete due to poor workability over long pour times. The document proposes using concrete with optimized workability to flow around reinforcement cages and maintain workability throughout long pours.

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    Standing Committee on Concrete Technology

    Annual Concrete Seminar 2007

    High Workability Concrete for


    Bored Pile Construction
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    CC Wai, Alan Wan


    Gammon Construction Limited
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    2
    Sequence of Work in Bored Pile Construction

    Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

    Week 1 Excavation

    Week 2 Excavation Rock Drilling


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    Week 3 Rock Drilling Airlifting Cage Concrete

    3
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    4
    Presentation Scope

    • Method of Concreting Bored Pile

    • Problems and Defects

    • Deficiencies in Current Practice

    • Proactive Approach
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    • The Way Forward

    5
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    6
    Concreting of Bored Pile
    General Setup
    Concrete
    Skip
    Truck

    Concreting
    Platform
    Ramp

    Tremie
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    Pipe

    Concrete

    7
    Stages in Bored Pile Concreting

    Extract Tremie Pipe Extract Temporary Casing

    Tremie
    Pipe Drop in
    Concrete
    Head

    Temporary
    Casing Concrete
    Overbreak
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    (1) (2) (3) (4)


    8
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    Grout
    Cement
    Concrete
    QA / QC

    • Slump tests / Flow table

    • Check temperature ( 32o)

    • Cube samples to determine concrete


    strength
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    11
    12:00

    21:00
    14:00

    18:00
    Concreting Takes Many Hours
    Concreting Time Varies With Pile Length

    30
    25
    Time (hours)

    20
    15
    10
    5
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    0
    0 20 40 60 80 100
    Pile Length (m)
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    Slump

    Time
    Slump Varies With Time
    Common Problems Encountered

    • Temporary casing cannot be withdrawn

    • Tremie pipe cannot be withdrawn

    • Blocked tremie pipe

    • Reinforcement cage rides up with


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    temporary casing

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    Defects
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    Honeycomb

    • Reduced workability affects self compaction

    16
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    Air Voids
    Entrapped Air Inside Concrete During Pouring

    Air
    Voids
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    (1) (2) (3)


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    Segregated Concrete

    • Additive quantity needs fine-tuning

    19
    Remedial Actions

    • Grouting

    • High pressure water jet to remove “weak”


    concrete, followed by pressure grouting

    • Stitched pile
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    • Additional pile

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    Practice
    Deficiencies in Current
    First In …. Last Out

    1* First few
    truckloads
    2 need to
    3 remain
    workable
    throughout
    concreting
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    17
    16
    * Indicate order
    of truckload
    22
    Deficiencies in Current Practice

    • Large piles / deep piles mean large


    concrete volume

    • Specification / Contract Document


    – Single slump value specified on drawing
    – Workability vs time not considered
    – Lack of flexibility in interpretation
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    • Quality control
    – Need to control consistency in material
    properties

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    The Proactive Approach

    • Need to Consider …..


    – Specification
    – Concrete volume (related to pile size
    and depth)
    – Site constraints (physical or
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    environmental restrictions)
    – Site location (travel time to site from
    batching plant)
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    Route to Pile Acceptance

    Pile
    Acceptance

    Concrete
    Performance
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    Material
    Time
    Consistency

    Concrete Site Construction


    Volume Constraints Procedure
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    SUCCESS STORY
    Hong Kong – Shenzhen Western Corridor

    Delivery
    ~ 3 hours
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    Grade 45/20
    •Designed slump
    200mm
    •Workability 5 hours
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    SUCCESS STORY
    Hong Kong – Shenzhen Western Corridor

    • Supplier formulated a special concrete mix


    with enhanced workability

    • Engineer relaxed concreting time to 5 hours

    • Contractor checked workability prior to


    pouring
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    • Side-effect : minor segregation, need to pour


    additional concrete to avoid undercasting

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    28
    Way Forward
    Concrete Triangle

    Constructability
    Designer

    Concrete Quality Slump


    Consistency / Performance Retention
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    Concrete
    Contractor
    Supplier

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    The End

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