Admixtures in Pile Concreting: A Case Study
Nehal H Shah
, Dhiren J Panchal, Karan V Rupani, Vivek D Patel
Assistant Professor, CIVIL ENGINEERING, Babaria Institute of Technology, India
Assistant Professor, CIVIL ENGINEERING, Babaria Institute of Technology, India
Vol. 2, Issue 11 pp. 39-44 🌐 Open Access
ABSTRACT
Pile foundations are deep foundations used to transmit heavy loads of the superstructure to the soil below. Pile foundations are normally used when soil below the structure has low bearing capacity and load on the foundation is high. Concreting in cast in situ bored piles are done via trimie pipe underwater in the bore hole which is heavily reinforced. The paper deals with the problems faced during concreting of pile foundations, and to find possible solution of main problems such as 1) Segregation of concreting and 2) Jamming of trimie pipe by proper use of admixture by the case study and suggest the finalize mix for the concrete used piles with good workability.
Keywords:
Pile; Admixture; Segregation; Superplasticizer; Negative friction; Under water concreting; Bore hole stabilization; Bentonite slurry
