Geotechnical Practice of Emergency Situation Recovery on a High-Pressure Water Conduit

The problem of trouble-free operation of linear structures on compressible bases is an urgent task of service organizations. For pressure water supply, sanitation, and heat supply facilities belonging to the category of CS-3, it becomes particularly relevant. The relevant services responsible for their technical condition are required to regularly monitor their deformations. From the geotechnical practice of operating such structures, excessive deformations of the foundation bases that perceive the calculated loads from them are often observed. At the same time, such deformations are aggravated due to the presence of weak engineering and geological elements in the foundations, as well as deformations of special earthworks such as underground dams, lashers or other hydraulic engineering facilities. This article describes a unique case of restoring an emergency situation in a section of a deformed soil dam as a result of a collapse of the soil mass, which was the base of pressure water supply pipelines. The use of EDT bored-injection piles, arranged using electric discharge technology, made it possible to solve the problem of an accident, namely, to prevent further destruction of the embankment and ensure guaranteed safe operation of the entire pressurized water supply system.

N.S. SOKOLOV^1,2, Candidate of Sciences (Engineering), Director (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.);
S.N. SOKOLOV², Directoe, LLC “Stroitel Forst”;
A.N. SOKOLOV², Director for construction (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

¹ Chuvash State University named after I.N. Ulyanov (15, Moskovsky Avenue, Cheboksary, 428015, Chuvash Republic, Russian Federation)
² LLC NPF “FORST” (109a, Kalinina Street, Cheboksary, 428000, Chuvash Republic, Russian Federation)

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