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On using dynamic grouting to improve grout spread in an artificial fracture
KTH, School of Architecture and the Built Environment (ABE), Civil and Architectural Engineering, Soil and Rock Mechanics.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9615-4861
2020 (English)In: ISRM International Symposium - EUROCK 2020, International Society for Rock Mechanics , 2020Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

A major concern in underground infrastructures is to sufficiently seal the area from water-ingress. To achieve that, adequate spread of grout in the surrounding fractures is crucial. Cement-grouting is probably the best method for that due to the lower costs and environmental impacts. But in this method, the grout spread is disrupted by filtration and plug-building of cement that can lead to flow stop and insufficient sealing. Dynamic grouting is a technique that has been primarily developed to solve the issue by reducing the grout viscosity using high-frequency oscillation. Despite some promising results, the remaining issue has yet been quick dissipation of the oscillations along the fractures resulting in inadequate grout spread and thus insufficient sealing. Recent investigation of the authors on the method using a short slot showed significant improvement in the amount of grout passed through micro-fractures by applying low-frequency pressure impulses. The mechanism of improvement was though interpreted as successive erosion of the produced filter cakes due to the variation in flow pattern during the pressure impulses. Nevertheless, the dissipation of the pressure impulses along a fracture was debatable. This study therefore aimed to examine the dissipation of dynamic impulses and the improvement of grout spread along a much longer artificial fracture, the so-called varying aperture long slot (VALS). The investigation was conducted under two regimes of peak/rest periods using a high-pressure gas tank and a screw pump as pressure source. Even though the study was only based on limited number of laboratory experiments, the results were promising, showing considerable improvement in the amount of grout passed through micro-fractures with acceptable dissipation length. The study finally showed the potential of method and suggested further development in full-scale field tests, to demonstrate the capacity of the new technique to the stakeholders in the industry.

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International Society for Rock Mechanics , 2020.
Keywords [en]
Cement-based grout, Dynamic grouting, Filtration, Low-frequency rectangular pressure impulse, Varying Aperture Long Slot-VALS, Cements, Concrete construction, Environmental impact, Flow patterns, Fracture, Mortar, Artificial fracture, Full-scale field tests, High frequency oscillations, High pressure gas, Laboratory experiments, Low frequency pressure, Pressure impulse, Underground infrastructure, Grouting
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Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-290387Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85097617388OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-290387DiVA, id: diva2:1532074
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ISRM International Symposium - EUROCK 2020; Trondheim, Virtual; Norway; 14 June 2020 through 19 June 2020
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QC 20210301

Available from: 2021-03-01 Created: 2021-03-01 Last updated: 2025-02-07Bibliographically approved

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