Abstract: A vibrator arrangement for building soil improvement includes a sluice with a silo tube and a sluice drive for moving the sluice. The sluice is adapted to receive a bulk material and to guide the bulk material into the silo tube. A feed container for feeding the bulk material to the sluice is included and a feed container drive is provided for moving the feed container between a waiting position and an abutment position at the sluice. Also, a method for transferring bulk material from a feed container into a sluice with a silo tube of a vibrator device includes moving the sluice with a sluice drive and moving the feed container filled with the bulk material a between a waiting position and an abutment position at the sluice while the sluice is moving.

Abstract: A rapid construction device for a prestressed basalt fiber anchor rod, includes a sleeve drill rod and a drill bit; the sleeve drill rod includes an inner and an outer cylinders; a middle of the drill bit is connected to a lower end of the inner cylinder, an edge of the drill is connected to a lower end of the outer cylinder, a constraint hole is defined in the middle of the drill bit for allowing a basalt fiber reinforced plastic (BFRP) penetrating therethrough, a magnetic baffle is arranged at a lower end of the constraint hole to shield the constraint hole, and a plurality of through holes are defined in the drill bit; and the BFRP is pushed to push off the magnetic baffle to lower the BFRP to a set position, and then a space between the inner and outer cylinders is grouted.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a soil-displacement drill for soil-displacing drilling in a surface in order to form a foundation pile, comprising a drill pipe, a drill head at an end of the drill pipe with several flap leaves which are pivotable between a closed position for closing off the end of the drill pipe and an open position for making this end freely accessible, and one or several closing elements to keep these flap leaves in their closed position and prevent pivoting of the flap leaves which are configured to fail during drilling into the surface in such a way that these closing elements do not impede pivoting of the flap leaves. Additionally, disclosed herein is an assembly of a drill head and one or several closing elements for such a soil-displacement drill, a method for soil-displacing drilling, and a method for converting a soil-displacement drill to form such a soil-displacement drill.

Abstract: The present invention is a grouting method for single pile rock-socketed foundation for offshore wind power, comprising: driving a steel casing into an overburden layer to dig the overburden layer and a rock stratum so as to dig a pile hole; hoisting a steel pipe pile into the steel casing and positioning the steel pipe pile in the pile hole, wherein an annular cavity is formed between the inner walls of the steel pipe pile and the pile hole and the bottom of the steel casing; grouting a first grouting layer to the bottom of a pipe hole of the steel pipe pile; grouting a plurality of grouting layers into the upper end of the first grouting layer in the annular cavity; and pulling out the steel casing, wherein after a grouting solution is aged, the steel pipe pile is stably connected to the overburden layer and the rock stratum.

Abstract: A thin-slotting lifting synchronous grouting device and its usage method are provided. The device includes a hollow force-bearing column through which a feeding pipe passes; wherein: left and right cutting plates are respectively fixedly arranged on each side of the hollow force-bearing column; a left connecting plate is fixedly arranged on an outside of the left cutting plate; a right guiding column is fixedly arranged on an outside of the right cutting plate; center lines of the left connecting plate, the right guiding column and the hollow force-bearing column are in a same plane; a top end of to the feeding pipe is connected to a grouting device, and a bottom end is connected to a spraying device; a spraying nozzle of the spraying device stretches out along the hollow force-bearing column; and a lower end of the hollow force-bearing column is connected with a disposable conical head.

Abstract: Disclosed are piling apparatus and methods for installing a reinforced concrete piling apparatus into the ground without the use of a pile driver or an auger. A helical screw anchor and coupling device are used to pull pipe sections into the ground. A preassembled reinforcing rod cage is placed into the pipe sections in the ground. Wet concrete is poured into the pipe sections to encase the reinforcing rod cage. The pipe sections are then removed. Removal of the pipe sections from the helical screw anchor is accomplished using the coupling device.

Abstract: Piling, apparatus and methods for pouring a concrete piling in situ around pre-positioned reinforcing rods inside removable hollow pipe sections that have been screwed into the ground. A final coupler pipe section including a removable coupler device is releasably attached to a reducer section and helical screw anchor that are left in the ground. The pipe sections are connected end to end by helical flanges and are screwed into the ground using the helical screw anchor. Once the pipe sections are screwed into the ground to a desired depth, the coupler device is operated to release the coupler section from the reducer section and the coupler device is extracted from the pipe sections. Reinforcing rods are disposed inside the pipe sections and reducer section. Concrete is poured into the pipe sections and reducer section to encase the reinforcing rods. The pipe sections including the coupler section are then removed from the ground and reused.

Abstract: A primary earth penetrating mandrel formed of a hollow shell steel plate octagonal in cross-section has an upper end and a blunt lower end joined by an upwardly and outwardly tapered wall. The mandrel is driven down in the earth to simultaneously form a vertical tapered cavity while compacting the sidewall of the cavity to provide structural integrity. The mandrel is then moved upwardly from the bottom of the cavity and aggregate is deposited in the bottom of the cavity then the mandrel is lowered so that its blunt lower end densifies the aggregate by vertical vibratory action and static force and repeating these until the pier top is near the surface of the earth at which time the upper aggregate portions are densified by the primary mandrel or a secondary mandrel having a substantially larger lower end surface than the lower end surface of the primary mandrel.

Abstract: A primary earth penetrating mandrel formed of a hollow shell steel plate octagonal in cross-section has an upper end and a blunt lower end joined by an upwardly and outwardly tapered wall. The mandrel is driven downwardly in the earth to simultaneously form a vertical tapered cavity while compacting the sidewall of the cavity to provide structural integrity. The mandrel is then moved upwardly from the bottom of the cavity and aggregate is deposited in the bottom of the cavity following which the mandrel is lowered so that its blunt lower end engages the deposited aggregate and densifies the aggregate by vertical vibratory action and static force with these steps being repeated until the pier top is near the surface of the earth at which time the upper aggregate portions are densified by either the primary mandrel or a secondary mandrel having a substantially larger lower end surface than the lower end surface of the primary mandrel.

Abstract: Piling, apparatus and methods for pouring a concrete piling in situ around pre-positioned reinforcing rods inside removable hollow pipe sections that have been screwed into the ground. A final coupler pipe section including a removable coupler device is releasably attached to a reducer section and helical screw anchor that are left in the ground. The pipe sections are connected end to end by helical flanges and are screwed into the ground using the helical screw anchor. Once the pipe sections are screwed into the ground to a desired depth, the coupler device is operated to release the coupler section from the reducer section and the coupler device is extracted from the pipe sections. Reinforcing rods are disposed inside the pipe sections and reducer section. Concrete is poured into the pipe sections and reducer section to encase the reinforcing rods. The pipe sections including the coupler section are then removed from the ground and reused.

Abstract: A construction process for the composite pile foundation which consists of the expanded belled base and the pile shaft, the construction process comprising the steps of: a) Aligning the pile tip at the pile location and place the casing at the top of the pile tip; b) Lifting the heavy hammer to enter the casing, repeatedly lift the heavy hammer to reach the given height and back press the casing, let it fall freely to ram the pile tip and the soil until a hole forms at the pile location; c) Lifting the heavy hammer higher than the feed inlet of the casing and fill solid material from the inlet into the casing; d) Ramming the above-mentioned solid material and repeat the filling and ramming operations; e) Controlling the penetration of the last three blows; f) Filling graded aggregate or stiff consistency concrete and repeatedly ram it to form the expanded belled base; g) pull out the casing; h) Aligning the pile shaft at the pile hole and repeatedly back press and blow slightly with the heavy hammer to drive

Abstract: Soil-displacing screw auger which contains an auger tube (1); a double displacement body (2) equipped with a hollow shaft (8) fixed to the auger tube (1) and containing an upper part (6) which constitutes a closed screw the radius of which increases towards its lower extremity and a lower part (7) which constitutes a closed screw the radius of which decreases towards its lower extremity, preferably with the same pitch as the upper part (6); a lower tube the diameter of which is smaller than twice the largest radius (R2) of the displacement body and which is situated between the lower part (7) of the displacement body (2) and the lower extremity of the auger; a screw blade (4) welded onto the outer casing of the lower tube, which rotates in the same sense as the lower part (7) of the displacement body (2) and an auger tip (5) connected to the lower extremity of the lower tube, with the special characteristic that the lower tube of the auger is an intermediate tube (3) with an outer diameter (D3) which is small

Abstract: An improved lateral soil displacement and compaction auger (24) is provided including a central shaft (34) equipped with a central cementious material pipe (42), helical flighting sections (36,38) and lower rollers (64A-64E) positioned between lower flight sections. The rollers (64A-64E) are strategically located so that their outer peripheries cooperatively define an expanding spiral from the lower end of the auger (24) towards the central section (50) thereof. The rollers (64A-64E) are primarily responsible for lateral soil displacement and compaction during rotation of the auger (24) and do so with reduced frictional buildup. The preferred auger (24) also includes a lower cap (40) which is retained during auger rotation by teeth (90,92); during filling operations, the cap (40) is shifted downwardly to allow ejection of cementious material from the pipe (42) while retaining the cap (40).

Abstract: An apparatus for forming a pile in the ground has an elongate member (12, 112), at least one helical thread flight (16, 116) on the elongate member (12, 112), and a torque transmission device (24, 124) to transmit torque from a drive structure to the elongate member (12, 112) and the at least one helical thread flight (16, 116) thereon. The outer diameter of the transmission device is greater than the outer diameter of the elongate member so that the apparatus can be inserted into the ground through a frustoconical depression (50) in the ground by rotating the torque transmission device (24, 124) in a first direction, and upon the reversal of the direction of rotation, a hole is left in the ground with a diameter which is the same as that of the transmission device, and with helical grooves of substantially the same shape as the at least one helical thread flight (16, 116).

Abstract: A method for forming a foundation pile in the ground utilizing a prefabricated pile shaft, placed with clearance into a tube screwed into the bearing ground layer, which tube is provided with a screw blade. Between the wall of the tube and the pile shaft a self-hardening mass is provided. The tube can be removed from the ground in the unscrewing direction while operating as a screw conveyor. The tube may also be retracted from the ground, initially without rotation, with a thick skin of self-hardening mass being formed around the pile shaft, which mass is subsequently pressurized by causing the tube to function as a screw conveyor.

Abstract: A piling assembly is provided which comprises a casing unit comprising an upright hollow casing having a drive boot secured to the bottom of the casing, and an external mandrel adapted to be supported on the drive boot in surrounding relation with the casing. The mandrel includes a lateral opening therein which enables the mandrel to be placed around the casing through relative lateral movement. A driving force is applied to the mandrel so as to drive the drive boot into the ground such as to create a hole in the ground having walls spaced from the mandrel and casing and the resultant space is filled with grout. The mandrel is then removed and the casing filled with concrete.

Abstract: A plastic structural panel and ground erosion barrier made therefrom in which the panel is in strip form relatively narrow compared to its length and which in general is a stretched Z-shaped cross sectional design with opposed male and female interlock edges for mating association with adjacent panel strips. The panel strip design has a "V" configuration on opposite faces and allows optional top-to-top alignment of adjacent panels for a composite deep "V" cross sectional shaped wall or alternate top-to-bottom turnover of adjacent panel strips to provide a thicker box ribbed cross sectional shape for the wall. The composite deep V-shaped cross section provides a greater breadth of coverage but less section modulus than the box ribbed construction.

Abstract: To the drill pipe connects a head comprising a cylinder-shaped portion and a cone-shaped point. Three spiral ribs are regularly distributed over the head. Each rib has a downwardly-extending rib portion standing on the point and having an outer side making an angle between 0.degree. and 5.degree. with the drill axis and an inner side making with the outer side of the point an angle which is smaller than 90.degree. increased by half the apex of the point, and has a outwardly-extending rib portion standing on the cylinder-shaped head portion and having a top side making an angle between 85.degree. and 95.degree. with the outer side of this head portion. The lowermost edge of the rib portion standing on the point merges into the outermost edge of the other rib portion. The apex of the point lies between 85.degree. and 95.degree..

Abstract: An apparatus for producing a concrete pile in the ground with an enlarged base, including a tube having a diameter, and an upper and a lower end, a shoe provided at the lower end of the tube and having a larger diameter than the tube so as to form a gap between the tube and the ground, a longitudinal outer casing having a diameter substantially equal to the shoe diameter so as to define a space between the tube and the outer casing, the casing also having a lower end attached to the shoe, and an open upper end so as to allow a free flow of concrete into the space between the tube and the outer casing, a sliding joint provided so as to slidably attach the outer casing to the tube so that a predetermined length of sliding exists between the tube and the outer casing, a pile having a free-falling hammer, the tube, with the outer casing attached, being drivable into the ground by the pile to a depth greater than the length of the outer casing so as to form an opening in the ground and define the gap between the t

Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing in-situ concrete piles with enlarged bases. The method includes the steps of: driving into the ground a tube provided at its lower end with a shoe which is larger than the diameter of the tube, and with an outer casing attached around its lower portion; filling fresh concrete into the gap between the tube and the soil as fast as the opening in the soil is formed; expelling the shoe and a plug of concrete to form the enlarged base; and extracting the tube together with the outer casing.

Abstract: After wet-drilling a hole until a bearing strata is reached, a mandrel with a removable overboot is lowered into the hole and the overboot is seated by a few hammer blows. The mandrel is than partly filled with thick concrete from its top, the top of the mandrel sealed, air-pressurized and a mechanical lifting force is applied. The pressure of the air within the mandrel plus the weight of the concrete forces off the overboot, and also forces the thick concrete against the sides of the hole, and the concrete forms a seal between the sides of the hole and the mandrel. The air pressure also helps lift the mandrel out of the hole.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for forming a cast-in-place support column includes a ground penetration member which forms a bore when driven to a desired depth in the ground. Apparatus is provided for introducing fill material in a liquefied state under pressure into the bore to form the support column and to extract the ground penetration member from the bore.