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s part of construction of
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"Short KS" excavating under a flyover
- Jet grouting of the plugs for the TBM Together, the severe geological, sche- to ensure trench verticality and suc-
break-in and break-out at the stations. duling and quality constraints requi- cessfully meet the productivity requi-
red six diaphragm wall teams, two rement for completing a panel every
The special construction conditions piling teams and three jet grouting 24 hours.
surrounding these underground engi- teams to operate simultaneously with
neering works in the city centre a maximum workforce of 700 people Construction of Silom station and the
without interrupting street traffic and underpinning for the motorway flyo-
meant that the stations had to be • three KL 1000 and 1200 diaphragm vers had to be performed with a hea-
built in two halves, backed up by spe- wall trenching rigs droom of only 6.00m. A "Short KS
cial works such as: • three KS 3000 rigs with 1000 and 3000" was built especially for the job,
- At Silom station, composite concre- 1200 hydraulic grab buckets capable of
te and steel diaphragm wall, 45m • two 1500mm and 1800mm piling - digging diaphragm wall and barrette
deep. The technique consists of using rigs pile trenches with a working hea-
interconnected steel beams over the • three CMV jet grouting units with droom of only 6.00m
whole length of the structure, instead Techniwell pumps - performing this work to within 0.5%
of the usual steel bar cages. At Silom, • concrete plant with a peak capacity of the vertical to depths of 60m.
the steel beams were 900mm wide of 2000 m3 of concrete per day.
(the trench was 1200mm wide) and
installed to a depth of 45m. All the KS 3000 hydraulic rigs were
- The diaphragm walling had to be equipped with a real time data acqui-
carried out with a headroom of only 6 sition system monitoring grab devia-
metres. tion, in order to meet the design tole-
- Barrette piles were built to take the rance of 0.5% on verticality.
loads from the motorway flyovers.
- Circular diaphragm-walls were instal- Special trenching grabs had to be
led to construct shafts 25m deep with made to suit the non-standard geome-
an inside diameter of 7 metres, with try of diaphragm wall panels, with a
very little ground level space for the maximum 4.5m length. The KS 3000s
work. had a grab bucket opening of 4.20m
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