Restoring seawater canal divider walls
AssigneeSaudi Arabian Oil Company
InventorsEmad Abu-Aisheh, Mahmoud A. Dweib, Khalid M. Alnabulsi
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Abstract
An approach to restoring and protecting a canal divider wall includes positioning a precast panel over the wall in the channel with an inner cavity of the precast panel; installing a titanium bolt through the precast panel and the wall in the channel; and pumping a polymer grout through a bore defined in the cap.
Claims14
A system for restoring and protecting a canal divider wall, the system comprising:
- titanium bolts;
- polymer grout;
- and
- a plurality of precast panels, wherein each of the precast panels comprises:
- a cap defining at least one bore extending through the cap;
- two side walls attached to and extending from the cap to define an inner cavity sized to receive a segment of the canal divider wall, each of the two side walls defining at least one bore extending through the side walls;
- and
- two flanges, each flange attached to one of the side walls and extending outward from the side wall away from the inner cavity;
- wherein the inner cavity has an open edge opposite the cap and open ends.
A system for restoring and protecting a canal divider wall, the system comprising:
- titanium bolts;
- polymer grout;
- and
- a plurality of precast panels, wherein each of the precast panels comprises:
- a cap;
- two side walls attached to and extending from the cap to define an inner cavity sized to receive a segment of an existing segment of the canal divider wall;
- and
- two flanges, each flange attached to one of the side walls and extending outward from the side wall away from the inner cavity;
- wherein the inner cavity has an open edge opposite the cap and open ends.
A method for repairing a wall in a channel, the method comprising:
- positioning a precast panel over the wall in the channel with an inner cavity of the precast panel, the inner cavity defined by a cap and two side walls attached to and extending from the cap;
- installing a titanium bolt through the two side walls of the precast panel and the wall in the channel with the titanium bolt positioned in aligned bores defined by the two side walls;
- and
- pumping a polymer grout through a bore defined in the cap, wherein the precast panel comprises two flanges, each flange attached to one of the sidewalls and extending outward from the side wall away from the inner cavity, wherein positioning the precast panel over the wall comprises positioning the precast panel over the wall with the two flanges resting on a bottom of the channel.
A method for repairing a wall in a channel, the method comprising:
- positioning a precast panel over the wall in the channel with an inner cavity of the precast panel, the inner cavity defined by a cap and two side walls attached to and extending from the cap, wherein the precast panel comprises two flanges, each flange attached to one of the side walls and extending outward from the side wall away from the inner cavity;
- installing a titanium bolt through the precast panel and the wall in the channel with the titanium bolt positioned in aligned bores defined by the two side walls;
- and
- pumping a polymer grout through a bore defined in the cap.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.