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Real-Time Monitoring of Jet Grout Column Diameter and Overlap

This document discusses real-time monitoring of jet grout column diameter and overlap. Jet grouting involves high-velocity fluids that erode soils in-situ to create cemented soilcrete columns used for soil improvement. Real-time monitoring collects production data like pressure and volume to ensure columns meet specified diameters. Acoustic wave analysis uses noise from rotating jets and FFT analysis to verify contact with adjacent columns and quantify overlap between them. This technique is being used on a project installing the IHNC New Orleans storm surge barrier involving jet grout columns with closure piles.

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Real-Time Monitoring of Jet Grout Column Diameter and Overlap

This document discusses real-time monitoring of jet grout column diameter and overlap. Jet grouting involves high-velocity fluids that erode soils in-situ to create cemented soilcrete columns used for soil improvement. Real-time monitoring collects production data like pressure and volume to ensure columns meet specified diameters. Acoustic wave analysis uses noise from rotating jets and FFT analysis to verify contact with adjacent columns and quantify overlap between them. This technique is being used on a project installing the IHNC New Orleans storm surge barrier involving jet grout columns with closure piles.

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REAL-TIME MONITORING OF JET GROUT

COLUMN DIAMETER AND OVERLAP

Claus-P. Schorr,, Ing.-grad.


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Jeffrey J. Bean, P.E., Layne GeoConstruction
INTRODUCTION: JET-GROUTING

> Single steps Installing Jet-Grouting Columns


INTRODUCTION: JET-GROUTING

• High-velocity fluids

• Jetting energy
erodes soils in-situ

• Creates columns of
cemented soilcrete

• Used to improve
mechanical
properties of soil

• Also used to reduce


permeability
JET GROUTING APPLICATIONS
• Soil Stabilization
• Excavation Support Systems
• St
Structural
t l Underpinning
U d i i
• Seepage Barrier/Cutoff Walls
• Environmental Remediation

Typical Jet Grout Methods


Jet Grouting Animation
Re-Construction Wastewater Treatment Plant
City and County of Honolulu, Sand Island, Oahu, HI

Soil stabilization using interconnected jet grout columns to create a “Bath


Bath Tub” effect and lateral support
for conventional excavation without employing a major dewatering program.
Re-Construction Wastewater Treatment Plant
City and County of Honolulu, Sand Island, Oahu, HI

Soilcrete Mass
Emplaced by Jet
Grouting

Bulk excavation / trimming to the cores of the clarifiers for foundation pour.
Sewer Upgrade State Route 29, Napa Valley
Vallejo Sanitation & Flood Control District, Vallejo, CA

Alternate Solution : Series of long and


short Jet Grout columns for
foundation support to facilitate micro-
micro
tunneling through very soft soils.

Original design specified stabilization


by soil mixing methods. Jet
Grouting method was selected for
inherent ability to work from the
temporary dike.; and for the “speedy”
nature off the process.
Drilled Shaft through
g Soilcrete Matrix
Jet Grout QA/QC Testing
Field test programs for jet grouting projects typically involve excavation
and/or core drilling to extract soilcrete samples from jet grouted elements
in order to evaluate geometric, mechanical and permeability properties,
andd to
t refine
fi injection
i j ti parameters.t
Jet Grout QA/QC Testing
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• Core Drilling
– IIntended
t d d for
f recoveringi intact
i t t
samples of rock (relatively
high-strength)
– Not so good for soilcrete, as
coring energy can disrupt
soil structure ((strength
g rangeg
generally fc < 300 psi)
– Soilcrete quality is often
underestimated due to poor
core recovery and apparent
low RQD
– Superior recovery can be
achieved with Sonic Drilling
Jet Grout QA/QC Testing
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• Superior recovery with
sonic drilling,
drilling sample
loss is nil
• Recovered samples will
t picall resemble a
typically
“stack of hotcakes”
• Although still unsuitable
for laboratory strength
testing, valuable to verify
the presence of soilcrete
• Wet grab samples can be
obtained at depth for
laboratory strength
testing.
REAL-TIME MONITORING

2 Miles
REAL-TIME MONITORING

Real-Time Monitoring is
a construction QC
measure used to collect
selected production
data, including:
pressure, volume, flow,
drill rate,, thrust,, and
torque.
Measurement and Control
Installation Process For A Typical
yp Column:

Objective is to
Reach of Jet?
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build a column
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of a specified
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ACOUSTIC WAVE-ANALYSIS TECHNOLOGY

A unique method to verify jet grout column diameter and overlap.

Adjacent
soilcrete
columns and
overlap

Source: Paper ASCE, EVALUATING IN-SITU JET GROUT COLUMN DIAMETERS UTILIZINGWAVE ANALYSIS,
Claus-P. Schorr, Ing.-grad., Reinhold Traegner, Dipl. Ing., Romano J. Micciche, P.E., GeoDenver 2007;
Acoustic Wave Analysis
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• High-energy jetting of earth materials
produces
d abbroadd spectral
t l range off
acoustic “noise”.

• Jetting in soils of higher elastic modulii


results
lt iin hi
higher-frequency
h f acoustics.
ti

• Jet grout columns have a relatively high E,


in contrast to typical surrounding soils.
Visualization of Overlapping
pp g “Signature”
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Diagram
g of rotating
g jjets in relation to p
planned
overlap with adjacent column

Soilcrete
Column

Surrounding High E
untreated soils
(low E)
Acoustic Wave Analysis
y
• FFT analysis of the noise produced in the ground
from a rotating high
high-energy
energy jet can verify contact
with adjacent columns.

• Acoustic signature of an adjacent soilcrete


column is a sinusoidal drift into a higher-
g
frequency range.

• Plotting of spectral response on a time-domain,


along with knowledge of rotation rate, can be
used to quantify column overlap
overlap.
FFT-Analysis (Spectrogram)

All Records has been recorded by the Company DAS BAUMANAGEMENT GmbH,
Germany, FFT-Analyzing done by Software WAV-LAB, STEINBERG;
Current Project
IHNC New Orleans Storm Surge Barrier

Reference: http://www.mvn.usace.army.mil.../surgewalladvance.bmp
Current Project
IHNC New Orleans Storm Surge Barrier

Reference: http://www.mvn.usace.army.mil.../ihnc-1.jpg
Current Project
IHNC New Orleans Storm Surge Barrier

Reference:
http://www.mvn.usace.army.mil.../img_0499.jpg
Current Project
IHNC New Orleans Storm Surge Barrier
IHNC New Orleans Storm Surge
g Barrier

Jet Grout Columns 18-in Closure Piles

66-in Cylinder
Piles
Pil
IHNC New Orleans – Casagrande
g Bi-Jet Rig
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Installation of Closure Piles into Jet Grout Plumes
Q
Questions?

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