Abstract: Method and device for introducing a pipe into the ground. In order to restrict the drive power necessary to the greatest possible extent and to optimize the diameter of the pipe, it is proposed that the soil surrounding the pipe is displaced in the radial direction. To this end the pipe is provided with one or more displacement elements.

Abstract: A device for drilling into the ground for the in-situ production of columns of stabilized and compacted soil, which comprises at least two parallel shafts, each shaft driving in rotation one auger, each auger being fitted with a loosening drill head. The shafts and the shanks of the augers include a bore and at least one orifice for discharging a filler material, the augers having opposite hands and being driven in counterrotation, and which furthermore have a drive for reversing the direction of rotation of the augers, said device including an even number n, at least equal to 4, of augers and in that, as seen in cross-section, the axes of the augers are centered at the vertices of a regular n-sided polygon.

Abstract: Soil displacement auger head for installing piles in the soil, having a tip, a displacement body having at least over a lower portion a core diameter increasing in diameter in a direction away from the tip, and at least one screw flange extending at least over the lower portion of the displacement body. To obtain a more efficient displacement, the pitch of the screw flange increases and the core diameter of the displacement body increases preferably discontinuously via a number of transition slopes.

Abstract: A soil mixing apparatus that requires less drilling force comprises a shaft, a plurality of cutting blades, an excavation blade, an auger bit, a shear blade having an extendible finger. The cutting blades, excavation blade and auger bit are attached to rotate with the shaft. The shear blade is attached at a fixed longitudinal position along the shaft. The shear blade provides a variable length by attaching different length fingers that are adjustable to the soil conditions in which the mixing apparatus is used. The shear blade is also mounted to the shaft at an angle such that the shear blade rotates in the same direction as the excavation blade and the cutting blades, but at a much slower rotation rate.

Abstract: The digging bits system contains left, right and central cylindrical digging bits and left and right plate digging bits being installed between the cylindrical digging bits, respectively. To the cylindrical digging bits, percussion force and turning force are applied. Each of the cylindrical digging bit contains tip, intermediate and upper end tubular body and is provided with a pore therein, respectively. To each of the tip tubular body, a bit edge is fixed, respectively. To both of the upper and the under end sides of the middle tubular body, a cam is provided in one unit with the tubular body, respectively. Each of the plate digging bits contains a sleeve, a central sleeve and a plurality of bit pieces, respectively. The cylindrical digging bits are rotatably connected with each other via a connecting member.

Abstract: An apparatus for monitoring grout pressure in an auger assembly during construction of an auger pressure grouted piling includes a pressure sensing element positioned within the lower end of a hollow auger for sensing the pressure exerted on the pressure sensing element by grout supplied through the auger during installation of the piling. A pressure indicator is provided for displaying the pressure sensed at the element, and a transmission line connects the element and indicator for transmitting the pressure sensed at the element to the indicator.

Abstract: A modified ground, for example, an underground water cut-off wall, landslide protection wall, or the like, is formed in an earthen foundation with the use of an excavator having at least one rotary shaft. The rotary shaft comprises a bit provided at a bottom end thereof, a stirrer having an expandable stirring wing disposed upwardly of the bit, and at least one nozzle for jetting a consolidating fluid in a downwardly diagonal direction. The stirring wing is capable of selectively taking an expanded form and a reduced form to vary an outside diameter of the stirrer about the axis of the rotary shaft. The nozzle is disposed upwardly of the stirrer such that the consolidating fluid jetted from the nozzle collides with the stirring wing in the expanded form. In the present method, the rotary shaft is inserted at a predetermined depth in the earthen foundation to form a hole therein while keeping the stirring wing in the reduced form without jetting the consolidating fluid from the nozzle.

Abstract: There is provided a cement soil apparatus of underground borer capable of improving the efficiency of operation such as pile driving in civil engineering foundation work. A screw shaft 3 and a rotary machine 4 for rotating it are disposed on a guide stilt 2 of a vehicle body 1, a down hammer 6 formed with a screw blade 5 is connected to a lower end of the screw shaft, supply conduits 10, 10' and 11, 11' for cement milk or the like are formed in the screw shaft and the down hammer, respectively, such that the supply conduits in the screw shaft are in communication with those in the down hammer, and valves 12, 12' openable by pressure are disposed in lower end portions of the supply conduits, whereby cement or the like can be supplied from the outside to the inside of a bored hole. When boring operation ends and the down hammer is pulled up, cement milk is grouted.

Abstract: A soil mixing apparatus that requires less drilling force comprises a shaft, a plurality of cutting blades, an excavation blade, an auger bit, a shear blade having an extendible finger. The cutting blades, excavation blade and auger bit are attached to rotate with the shaft. The shear blade is attached at a fixed longitudinal position along the shaft. The shear blade provides a variable length by attaching different length fingers that are adjustable to the soil conditions in which the mixing apparatus is used. The shear blade is also mounted to the shaft at an angle such that the shear blade rotates in the same direction as the excavation blade and the cutting blades, but at a much slower rotation rate.

Abstract: Methods are provided for the constructing of subterranean soil-cement structures in situ. The methods utilize techniques designed to prolong the period of time in which an auger machine can operate in a bore hole without encountering difficulty due to the hardening of the soil-cement mixture. The techniques utilized include a preparatory drilling phase during which a lubricating slurry may be injected. This preparatory drilling serves to break up the soil and particularly if a lubricating slurry is used, reduce friction so that final drilling may progress more quickly. After preparatory drilling, final drilling takes place. Final drilling is divided into a downward and an upward phase. Either hardening or non-hardening slurry may be introduced and consolidated with the soil during the downward phase, but only hardening slurry is typically utilized during the upward phase of final drilling.

Abstract: A method apparatus, and product of forming consolidated earth columns of cement grout or mortar to be used, for instance, in building foundations. The method is designed to drastically reduce the time taken to form consolidation columns and to allow consolidation of earth particularly difficult to bore. The method consists of injecting the consolidating grout during the ascent of the drilling tool from the earth supplying air, at the same time, to the pneumatic percussion tool used to make the preliminary drilling.The plant to put the method into effect comprises a rotating joint manifold (6) at the upper end of the boring drill (11), equipped with tangentially arranged inlets, even inclined; an air manifold (15) to supply compressed air to the pneumatic percussion tool through the external annular chamber (28) of said boring drill (11); a grout distributor (36) equipped with ejection nozzles (38) the axes of which are inclined with respect to the axis of the drill.

Abstract: A device for forming cast-in-situ piles in civil engineering work includes an auger which consists of a conventional lower part and an upper part comprising a hollow inner element and a removable outer element in the form of an auger having a longitudinal discontinuity which enables it to be fitted over the hollow inner element. The hollow inner element may extend, fixedly, as an elongation of the lower part of the auger or be mounted telescopically in the latter.

Abstract: An improved method and apparatus for the formation of casing assisted grout piles at low density overburden construction sites is provided which includes a collar assembly (44) adapted to be secured to the conventional upright support frame (12) forming a part of typical pile-forming equipment. Preferably, the assembly (44) includes a pair of hingedly interconnected arcuate collar sections (46,48) which cooperatively grip the upper protruding end (42) of an embedded metallic casing (40). The sections (46,48) are provided with circumferentially spaced elongated, gripping elements (70) thereon, as well as a piston and cylinder assembly (60) for selective opening and closing movement of the sections (46,48). Use of the casing-gripping assembly (44) prevents substantial movement or uprooting of the embedded casing (40), and permits pile formation at sites such as landfills containing municipal solid wastes.

Abstract: A practical method of forming foundation structures for buildings or the like is provided which allows economical and convenient formation of foundation piles and pile caps. In the preferred method hereof, an auger is drilled to a desired depth in the soil whereupon grout is pumped through the hollow shaft of the auger while the auger is removed to form a pile having an upper surface generally even with the initial grade level. A grout pump then removes grout from the pile down to a lower level generally slightly above the desired base level of a pile cap. After the grout hardens, the soil in the vicinity of the pile is removed to a level generally even with the upper surface of the pile whereupon a pile cap is poured onto the pile for at least partial support thereby.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to in situ structural diaphragm walls and methods for constructing such walls. The structural diaphragm walls of the present invention are comprised of a series of small and large-diameter soilcrete columns configured such that the small-diameter columns alternate with the large-diameter columns. A structural member, such as a steel I-beam, is placed within each of the small-diameter columns or within each of the large diameter columns, depending on the structural requirements of the resulting diaphragm wall.The structural diaphragm wall is capable of withstanding the lateral forces which may be imposed by soil or water. Thus, the wall is ideally suited for construction applications when ground water must be restrained or when soil adjacent an excavation site is in danger of crumbling because of the loss of the lateral support which existed prior to excavation.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to side cutting blades for use with multi-shaft auger machines which mix soil with a chemical hardener in situ to form soilcrete columns. The side cutting blades includes two parallel blades which cut the soil between the adjacent columns along planes approximately tangential to the periphery of adjacent columns. As the soil is cut by the cutting blades, the soil is thoroughly mixed with a chemical hardening agent. Adjacent soilcrete columns are integrally connected by substantial column overlap without physically moving the columns closer together or performing multiple borings on the soil adjacent to the columns formed by the initial boring.The side cutting blades are particularly suited for use with a multi-shaft auger machine which has minimal column overlap.

Abstract: Hazardous wastes are identified and treated in situ by forming a downwardly extending zone of particles in the waste. Toxic components in the waste are identified by injection of a pressurized fluid into the zone and capturing a sample of gases rising to the surface of the waste. At least one treatment agent is injected into the zone as appropriate until sampling indicates the particles of waste have been treated to a desired degree.

Abstract: A soil displacement tool, or mole, comprises a hollow cylindrical body in which is provided an hydraulically reciprocal piston the movement of which drives the tool through the soil to form a hole, the body and piston being annular such that the tool is hollow.

Abstract: Process for soil treatment and successive installations of a plurality of equipments at different respective locations and apparatus for implementing said process, comprising the operations of: drilling the soil by driving a tubular stem tool having an axis and a predetermined overall diameter around its axis, introducing one equipment inside the tubular stem tool, removing from the soil said tubular stem tool while leaving the equipment within the soil, modifying the soil compacity around the equipment by mechanical action during at least part of the removal of the tubular stem tool and repeating the above operations with remaining equipments at other locations.

Abstract: Process and apparatus for consolidating, sealing and stabilizing a predeterminable area in the ground, particularly for making foundations, underpinnings or seals in a building site, by injecting at least one hardening liquid material in a high energy liquid jet into the ground, accompanied by the simultaneous injection of a gaseous material, characterized in that for the injection of the gaseous material, at least one discrete gas jet is formed and injected separately from the liquid jet and is located in the vicinity of the exit port of the liquid jet and guided at a distance from the liquid jet.

Abstract: An apparatus (U) is shown in FIGS. 11-13 that includes a power operated vehicle (V) that supports a vertically movable frame (W) that has a confined space defining shroud (X) on the lower end thereof that may be placed in sealing contact with the upper surface of a hazardous waste impoundment (Y) at a first station to permit the insitu detoxification of a desired portion of the impoundment. At least one power driven blade (Z) is rotated downwardly from within the shroud (X) into the impoundment to form a vertically extending zone (A-1) of particled material that is treated with a detoxifying agent that may be chemical, biological or heat from one or more plasma torches. Gases emitted during the formation of the particled zone (A-1) are subjected to scrub action by a liquid within shroud (X) and the liquid returned to zone (A-1). After the detoxification of a zone has been completed the apparatus (U) is moved to a succession of overlapping second stations where the above described method is repeated.

Abstract: A ground- or soil anchor is prepared and placed in the ground by drilling a bore hole at the chosen site by means of a drilling assembly which comprises an elongated tubular member which serves as drive shaft for the drill, which latter has tapering rear end and is designed to be pulled into the said tubular member, the leading end of which is split so that the parts thereof-on the drill being pulled into it-are spread apart and are eventually embedded in grout inserted into the bore hole.

Abstract: A concrete pile installation apparatus and method is disclosed wherein a device penetrates the soil to produce an opening for the formation of the pile. Fill material, such as grout, is introduced into the opening and a potential vacuum void created in the formation of the pile is vented to the atmosphere to prevent the pulling of surrounding soil into the opening and thereby causing the formation of a defective pile.

Abstract: The invention relates to civil engineering works.In particular, it relates to a device suitable for forming a primary column of stabilized and compacted soil, which comprises at least two parallel shafts driving in opposite directions, two parallel augers with opposite pitch, each auger being provided at the opposite end to the drive shaft with a loosening drillhead and the distance between the axes of the augers being less than the diameter of an auger, the shafts and the shanks of the augers comprising a bore connected to a source of material to be added, and at least one orifice which communicates with the said bore being provided on the shank of each auger so as to discharge the material to be added and allow it to be mixed with the loosened soil.Applicable in particular for the compaction of railroad territory.

Abstract: A foundation improvement process comprising providing a first nozzle, a third nozzle, and a second nozzle opened up encircling the first nozzle at the side wall of a lower portion of an injection rod, at the same time providing a diffusion nozzle at an intermediate portion between the first and third nozzles, forming a curtain with a high pressure water jetting from this diffusion nozzle, providing a partition wall between hardening agent jetting from the third nozzle and an air lift portion by means of a fresh water and air jetting from the first and second nozzles by using this water curtain, thereby preventing the raising of the injected hardening agent for performing a sure improvement of a foundation, and at the same time preventing waste of the hardening agent.

Abstract: Method for making an elongated support column extending downwardly into the ground which may be used in the construction of foundation piling, tension anchors and related installations, the method comprising generally the steps of providing a rigid elongated hollow driving mandrel with radial apertures in the lower section and having a driving foot on its lower end; passing the driving foot through and displacing the ground to form a space with a cross-sectional area greater than the mandrel in the wake of the driving foot until the uppermost radial apertures in the driving mandrel are below the level of the ground; continuing the driving of the driving mandrel and foot by introducing liquified fill material under pressure into the hollow portion of the mandrel, the pressure being adjusted so as to fill the space between the mandrel and the walls of the hole so as to prevent the ground from collapsing upon the mandrel; allowing the liquified fill material to solidify when the desired depth has been reached.

Abstract: This invention relates to a process and an apparatus of constructing a water tight underground pile wall in the form of a row of piles in which previous piles are installed every other pile and thereafter subsequent piles are installed between said previously formed piles, both of said piles being connected together.

Abstract: A method is provided for making a foundation pile comprising a cylindrical tube (1) with one or more helically extending blades (14,15) at its lower end to which a hardening liquid is supplied that is conducted in such a manner that it penetrates the soil below the helical blade part or parts and along the tube wall (2) thereabove at 13. Said hardable liquid serves as means for removing the friction between pile and soil during screwing in the soil.

Abstract: The apparatus includes two tools for forming holes in the subsoil without excavating it, which tools being coaxially mounted on a drill column. To the end of the drill column there is attached a hollow tool which is concealed when a skirt is in a lower position and exposed when the skirt is in an upper position. A soil displacing body is mounted on the drill column and above the tool. The soil displacing body is a hollow structure and has an upper opening wherethrough its inner space communicates with a concrete feeding tube and a lower opening closable by the skirt in its upper position. To construct a tubular pile the apparatus is driven into the subsoil whereby a design hole is formed, then the apparatus is withdrawn from the hole with a simultaneous filling of the hole with a concrete mix through the concrete feeding tube, the soil displacing body, and the lower opening provided therein.

Abstract: A concrete pile is formed by forming a hole in the ground with an auger and introducing concrete material into the ground through the hollow stem of the auger, the concrete being forceably ejected from the hollow stem of the auger by compressed air supplied to a nozzle within the hollow stem of the auger adjacent the open end thereof. The auger is gradually withdrawn from the hole as the hole is filled with concrete. The auger is made of inter-connected auger sections, the sections being connected by couplers which provide channels for the flow of concrete and for the flow of compressed air. The auger bit is provided with an appropriate nozzle for the ejection of the compressed air.