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Grouting

Grouting: Introduction
Injection of a slurry or a liquid solution into a soil or
rock formation is termed as grouting
The injected material is known as grout or grout
material
The process of grouting was developed mainly as a
technique for making
vertical seepage barriers beneath dams and hydraulic
structures by injecting cement slurry into the void
space of river bed material , typically sand-gravel and
of underlying disintegrated rocks.

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Grouting methods
Permeation grouting (Cement or
bentonite or Chemical grout)
Displacement-compaction grouting
Displacement-soil fracture grouting
Jet (or replacement-displacement)
grouting

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Permeation

Grouting methods

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Permeation grouting : It is the injection of

grout in soil and is done in a manner that the
arrangement of soil grains is not disturbed and
only the void space is filled by a processes of
permeation (seepage)

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Permeation Grouting

Fig. 31.2 Applications of permeation grouting

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Grouting methods
Permeation grouting : It is the injection of grout in soil and
is done in a manner that the arrangement of soil grains is not
disturbed and only the void space is filled by a processes of
permeation (seepage)
Displacement-compaction grouting: In permeation
grouting if the soil is displaced by injecting thick viscous
paste-like slurry at high pressure to form a bulb shaped
grouted mass, then it is known as displacement-compaction
grouting
Displacement-soil fracture grouting: It is same as that of
displacement-compaction grouting but a lean slurry of high
fluidity is injected at high pressure to form root like lenses of
grout material in the soil mass

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Compaction Grouting

Fig. 31.11 Situations where displacement-compaction grouting is most applicable

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Fig. 31.12 Restoration of verticality of a tilted building

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Jet or replacement-displacement
grouting: The grout material is injected into
the soil mass in the form of a jet to form a
grouted column by partly replacing the soil

Jet or replacement-displacement
grouting

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Jet or replacement-displacement
grouting

Fig. 31.15 Jet grouting systems

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Fig. 31.17 Applications of jet grouting

Desirable characteristics of Grouts

Properties of grouts are described in
terms of five parameters

Groutability
Stability
Setting time
Permanence
Toxicity

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