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Jun 1, 2021
A Brief History of Jet Grouting in the Last 50 Years
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Jet grouting, a grouting soil improvement construction technique, was first developed in Japan in the 1960s and 1970s, and then introduced in Europe a few years later in the form of a proposal for soil improvement for the leaning Tower of Pisa. Since its inception as a ground improvement method, major advances have been made in both the equipment (pumps, drill rigs, tooling) and quality control procedures used for jet grouting.
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GeoStrata Magazine Archive
Volume 25 • Issue 3 • May 2021
Pages: 70 - 77
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Published in print: May 2021
Published online: Jun 1, 2021
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Paolo Gazzarrini, M.ASCE
P.Eng., D.GE
President, Sea To Sky Geotech; Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Pourya Alidoust, Joseph T. Coe, Yang Yang, Alireza Kordjazi, Siavash Mahvelati, Numerical Investigation of Full Waveform Tomography to Identify Anomalous Conditions and Untreated Zones in Jet Grout Columns, Geo-Congress 2023, 10.1061/9780784484678.022, (214-222), (2023).
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