# US 10,119,236 B2 · Compaction grouting system construction method capable of seismic reinforcement and quality control

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- Number: US 10,119,236 B2
- Document ID: US10119236B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 15/328,980
- Filed: 2015-08-04
- Published: 2017-08-10
- Granted: 2018-11-06
- Earliest claimed: 2014-08-05
- Assignees: Xenon Ground Technology Corp.; Denver Korea E&C Co., Ltd.
- Applicants: Doo Sub Sim; Ji Hyun Park
- Inventors: Doo Sub Sim; Ji Hyun Park
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10119236B2

## CPC

- E02D 3/12: Consolidating by placing solidifying or pore-filling substances in the soil (making piles E02D5/46; soil-conditioning or soil-stabilising materials C09K17/00; consolidation of ground around boreholes or wells E21B43/025)
- E02D 2250/003: Injection of material
- E02D 2300/0021: Mortar
- E02D: FOUNDATIONS; EXCAVATIONS; EMBANKMENTS (specially adapted for hydraulic engineering E02B); UNDERGROUND OR UNDERWATER STRUCTURES {(tunnels, tunnelling, mining E21)}

## Abstract

A compaction grouting system (“C.G.S”) construction method capable of seismic retrofit and quality control is provided. An injection pipe is inserted in the ground to an insertion depth and is provided for injecting a grout into the ground at the insertion depth. The grout is injected in predetermined quantities per unit time under an injection pressure that is a predetermined static pressure. A discharge pressure of the grout being injected is measured. At least one or more, among the injection pressure at which the grout is being injected and the unit time per which predetermined quantities of the grout are injected, is adjusted, according to the change in the measurement value of the discharge pressure. The insertion depth at which the injection pipe is inserted in the ground is changed after the injection of the grout is completed.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A compaction grouting system (“C.G.S”) construction method capable of performing a seismic retrofit and a quality control, the method comprising:
an injection pipe inserting step for inserting an injection pipe, which is provided to inject a grout into a ground, to an insertion depth;
an injecting step injecting the grout into the ground with a constant quantity at an injection pressure of a predetermined constant pressure per unit time and controlling at least one of the unit time at which the grout is injected with a constant quantity and the injection pressure of the grout;
a pressure measuring step measuring adjacent to a grout discharge port of an injection pump unit a discharge pressure at which the grout injected in the injecting step is being discharged for each injection depth of the grout;
an injection adjusting step calculating a measurement value obtained by dividing the discharge pressure of the grout measured in the pressure measuring step by the injection quantity of the grout per unit time for each injection depth of the grout and adjusting, depending on a change in the measurement value for each injection depth of the grout, at least one or more of the injection pressure of the grout in the injecting step, and the unit time at which predetermined quantities of the grout are injected; and
a depth changing step changing the insertion depth at which the injection pipe is inserted in the ground after the injection of the grout is completed,
wherein the injection adjusting step adjusts the grout injection pressure of the injecting step to be lower than the predetermined static pressure, when the change in the measurement value of the discharge pressure for the insertion depth measured in the pressure measuring step increases, and
wherein the injection adjusting step increases the unit time at which the predetermined quantity of grout of the injecting step is injected, when the change in the measurement value of the discharge pressure for the insertion depth measured in the pressure measuring step decreases.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein the injecting step injects the grout by settings that are adjusted in the injection adjusting step, when performing the injecting step again after the depth changing step.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein the injecting step is set so that an injection amount per unit time set when injecting the grout is equal to or less than 50 times a ground permeability of the ground to which the grout is injected.