The invention relates to a method for ground-working at a bottom of a body of water and a cleaning device for cleaning an underwater ground-working apparatus. The cleaning device has an enclosing body which extends substantially from a bottom of a body of water to above the water surface and enclosing an inner space, along which the ground-working apparatus can be moved, and a separating device, through which in the enclosing body an upper portion of the inner space can be separated off to form a cleaning area, in which the ground-working apparatus can be received and soil and contamination cleaned from it.

A method for reinforcing soft ground by post-grouting combined with pressurized vacuum preloading is proposed, by pre-burying prefabricated vertical drains and air-boosted pipes in granular material piles, and the air-boosted pipes are used as grouting pipes to reduce the number of times of piling, which not only improves the construction efficiency, but also reduces the structural disturbance of the soil and the influence of smear effect, thus reducing the impact on the radial permeability and the radial consolidation coefficients. The method does not use geotextile bags for granular materials, which can avoid the problem of forming a localized clogging area around the geotextile bags, and the method not only improves the efficiency of vacuum transfer in a pre-consolidation stage, but also improves the grouting effect in the later stage, effectively enhances the strength of soft soil and makes granular material piles and the surrounding soil form composite ground.

The present invention relates to an earth retaining structure for reinforcing a slope, and more particularly, to an anchor including a fixing body at a pressure plate side for compressing a slope and a method for installing the anchor in the slope. The anchor including a fixing body at a pressure plate side for compressing a slope capable of preventing tension of the anchor from being lost by installing a friction type pressure plate fixing body in a steel pipe form that is integrated with the pressure plate at the pressure plate side of the anchor, installing a primary packer at a middle part of the anchor to conduct pressurized-grouting to fix a tip end side fixing body of the anchor, compressing a large pressure plate compressing the slope by introducing a tensile force to the tension member of the anchor together with the pressure plate side fixing body, expanding a secondary packer, and conducting secondary pressurized-grouting, is provided.

A one-step sheet pile retaining wall system for embankment widening typically associated with highway widening not requiring temporary shoring. The wall system may provide a front wall face having a plurality of resistance fins perpendicularly extending therefrom. The fin sheet piles first include a brace fin sheet for reducing stresses in the front wall face, then a series of cradle fin sheets terminating at an elevation below the brace fin sheet for accommodating a pipe drainage/utility cradle, and finally a series of predominantly resistance fin sheets terminating at an elevation above the cradle fin sheets. Between the slope of the existing embankment and the higher front wall face may be cementitious flowable backfill for pre-stressing the wall system when fluid and, when set, supporting the aforementioned cradle, from which the remaining construction can build off of while reducing overall earth pressure acting on the wall face upon completion of construction.

A method for manufacturing an element in a ground comprising a drilling step during which a grout comprising a first composition is introduced and after the drilling step, at least one grout activation cycle is performed during which at least part of the grout is pumped; a second composition configured to activate the grout by reacting with the first composition in order to initiate the hardening of said grout is added to the pumped grout; then the activated grout is introduced into the excavation; and after said at least one grout activation cycle, the activated grout is allowed to harden in order to form the element in the ground.

The present invention discloses a water intake pipeline structure passing through a soft foundation embankment below a flood level and a construction method. The water intake pipeline structure comprises: pipelines, a gate valve well, a concrete pipe bed, a high-pressure jet grouting pile continuous wall, cement deep mixing piles, geogrids, backfilling clay, a clay bound macadam and concrete key walls. After the embankment is broken and excavated to reach a pipeline embankment-passing design elevation, the cement deep mixing piles are fully disposed in a plum blossom type, and the high-pressure jet grouting pile continuous wall is disposed under the gate valve well. A plain concrete cushion layer, the gate valve well, the concrete key walls and the concrete pipe bed are poured, the water intake pipelines are installed, and the pipelines behind the gate valve well are wrapped with concrete. The geogrids are placed during clay backfilling, and layered soil filling is performed. An embankment top is restored by using the clay bound macadam. The gate valve well is provided with a gate valve, and an operating lever is connected onto the gate valve. The present invention further discloses the construction method of the water intake pipeline structure designed to pass through the soft foundation embankment below the flood level. The present invention can eliminate differential settlement of an embankment-passing section, cut off seepage channels in contact positions of the pipelines and the embankment body, and improve the anti-skid stability of an embankment slope, and meanwhile it is novel in structure and convenient to implement.

A method to manufacture a native soil flowable fill includes hydro excavating native soil to form a hole at a first excavation, transferring the native soil from the first excavation to a debris tank, and adding a pozzolan component, cement and water to the debris tank. The method also includes mixing the native soil in the debris tank using a mixing apparatus to form the native soil flowable fill, and transferring the native soil flowable fill back to the first excavation into the hole. The native soil flowable fill comprises 30-90% by weight of native soil, 0-50% by weight of the added pozzolan component, 0-50% by weight of the cement, and 10-45% by weight of the water.

A method for transforming existing ground of a given site into a more stable foundation ground is provided. The method includes the steps of defining an outlined area about a surface of the existing ground, excavating soil throughout the outlined area to a depth extending through layers of different soil types; conditioning the excavated soil by mixing together layers of different soil types homogeneously, including in some cases soil imported from an external source; returning the conditioned soil to the outlined area to fill the excavated depth, and compacting the conditioned soil returned to the outlined area, thereby forming the stable foundation ground of high structural capacity and low compressibility.

A system to manufacture a native soil flowable fill onsite includes hydro excavation equipment having a suction hose. In addition, the system includes a plurality of onsite debris tanks, where each onsite debris tank is configured to be coupled separately to the suction hose and to store native soil vacuumed from an adjacent hole at an onsite excavation. The system also includes a mixing apparatus inside each of the onsite debris tanks configured to mix the native soil from the adjacent hole with additional components to form a native soil flowable fill for the respective adjacent hole.

The invention relates to a method of fabricating an element in ground (S), the method comprising: a step of drilling an excavation (T) in the ground; and a step of mixing the ground in place in the excavation in situ with a geopolymer.