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Definition of “Plastic Cut-Off Wall.”
A ”Plastic cut-off wall” is a deep-foundation technology, employed to form impervious, permanent, underground “diaphragm” (or barrier), to “seal off” certain underground areas and prevent passage of fluids [generally water],through it.
The use of the word “Plastic” is to describe the very nature of the diaphragm, barrier or membrane created with this technology, in fact the “Plastic Cut-Off wall” is made of a mix of bentonite, cement, water and other components, proportioned in such a way to remain indefinitely plastic (and impervious) with time.
The word “Cut-Off” is meant to define the specific purposes of this technology, i.e. to either stop the flow, to “Dam” the underground stream, or to surround and seal-off an area, to prevent water inflow and water outflow from the encircled area. For this technology, the medium employed to “Cut-Off” is the Plastic Wall, or Plastic Diaphragm that has the effect of completely stopping the water flow at a chosen section of a river bed underlaid by [deep] alluvium, or sealing-off an area[tipically underlaid by alluvium], surrounding it, with a cut-off wall along the entire perimeter.
Applications of “plastic cut-off wall”
Plastic Cut-off Walls are used to provide a totally impervious underground diaphragm from the base of cofferdams to the lower end of the alluvium strata. Plastic Cut-off Walls are usually installed from the top of cofferdam, thus providing also an impervious core to the cofferdam, in addition to sealing the areas below it.
Plastic Cut-Off Walls are a very important medium for the protection of the environment, insofar as the bentonite-cement mix also called self-hardening mud, or cement stabilized bentonite mud, is an extremely stable material, unaffected by the leachates and contaminants produced by landfills. Plastic Cut-Off walls are used to construct impervious barriers around old and new landfills to prevent leachates from contaminating the water table and the water streams around the landfill locations. For the purpose, the cut-off walls are installed to depths sufficient to eliminate the possibility of polluting streams and water table by escaping landfill leachates.
A very important application of Plastic Cut-Off Walls in areas with scarce rainfalls, shrinking water reservoirs, dwindling water tables, deep alluvium and large rivers’ catching basins, is to close the underground outflow of water within the alluvial river bed, by forming an underground continuous “dam” perpendicular to the river longitudinal axis, resembling a vertical gate inserted through the river bed to close the underground water outflow.
Advantages of using Plastic Cut-Off Walls.
The advantages of using plastic cut-off walls as described above, are several, self hardening Bentonite-Cement mud are extremely stable chemically, are not affected by polluted and aggressive underground water.
By remaining indefinitely plastic in time, Plastic Cut-Off Walls can deform without cracks and fissures in response to the surrounding ground’s settlements, thus remaining as impervious as it was built, throughout time.
Experienced Specialized Contractors can install Plastic Cut-Off Walls , totally impervious in any kind of alluvial formation, at a relatively fast pace.
Foundation specialists has expertly and successfully designed and installed Plastic Cut-Off Walls for over thirty years in the most diverse soil and hydro-geological conditions. Plastic Cut-Off Wall is
a SPECIALTY of The two Concerns that were merged to form Foundation Specialists, had, over the years dedicated to develop and manage the planning and construction of large Underground Hydropower Schemes, including Pump-Storage Hydropower Plants, in difficult geological and geomorphological conditions. managed through theoretical and field R & D to fine tune field applications of Geotechnical and Foundation Engineering, Soil and Rock Mechanics and develop Construction Methods and Technologies applicable to general conditions. Because of the way it was formed, Foundation
Specialists started “ab initio” as
a leader in its consolidated fields of expertise, i.e. large, complex infrastructure projects with important foundation-engineering-related components.
http://foundationspecialists.eu/ http://foundationspecialistspng.com/ http://foundationspecialistsqatar.com/ http://foundationspecialistsdubai.com/ http://foundationspecialistssaudi.com/ http://foundationspecialistsinc.com/ Foundation Specialists Head-Quarters are in the Central Business District of Makati City, Metro-Manila, Philippines, where, the Philippine company Foundation Specialists, Inc. with "AAA" PCAB category for general engineering and general building, and Large "B" for the Public Sector Infrastructure Projects, has been engaging in the construction of large INFRASTRUCTURES [flyovers, bridges, underpasses, overpasses, wharfs & piers, tunnels, roads, mass rail transit systems, hydro power schemes and irrigation schemes], BUILDINGS (residential, commercial, industrial, institutional), INDUSTRIAL PLANTS, MULTI-LEVEL BASEMENTS, projects involving large amounts of FOUNDATION WORKS, for the last three decades.
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Clicking the following
link you will enter the HOME page of FoudationSpecialists main website Foundation Specialists [Headquarters:] Legaspi Towers 200, 107 Paseo De Roxas Central Business District, 1226 Makati City, MM, PHILIPPINES Phone: (+63 – 2 ) 817 – 68 – 26 Website:
http://www.foundation-specialists.com CONTACT: info@FoundationSpecialistsInc.com |
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Foundation Specialists is known for the very high quality control standards and for the track record of successfully completing all its projects on or ahead of schedule, with full Clients' satisfaction.
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