Mandrel for forming an aggregate pier, and aggregate pier compacting system and method
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Mar 13, 2018
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Mar 2, 2017
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Aug 11, 2016
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Sep 1, 2015
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Abstract
An aggregate pier compacting system for forming a compacted aggregate pier (AP) at a target location includes a mandrel, a tamper device, and a finishing tamper device. The mandrel includes a casing for housing a drilling shaft (DS). An external vibratory hammer (EVH) repeatedly impacts a hammer element (HE) extending from the DS. The DS transfers the impact to a bore head to form a cavity at the target location. The DS is removed and the casing is filled with aggregate. The tamper device includes a compacting shaft. The EVH impacts a second HE extending from the compacting shaft and transfers the impact to a compaction head to form the compacted AP. The finishing tamper device includes a shaft. The EVH impacts a third HE extending from the shaft and transfers the impact to a finishing head compacting a top layer of the AP to form a finished AP.
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- 2016 Application Filing Year
- E02D Class
- 420 Applications Filed
- 336 Patents Issued To-Date
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