Cement Grouting
The cement grouting method includes injecting cement under pressure into fractures and voids in concrete structures. The simple type of cement grouting fills gaps, increases RC component strength and impermeability capacity, and reduces honeycomb member porosity. In pressured cement grouting, a grouting material – a combination of cement and water as well as a non shrink material – is injected into an inaccessible yet interconnected pore or void region of a concrete structure.
Another application for cement grouting is to repair construction flaws in concrete and masonry constructions. Cement grouting has applied usage in several structural works including, bridges, marine applications, dams, and rock anchors.
Advantages of Cement Grouting
- Cement grouting has a cost advantage over other types of grouting.
- Cement grouting can be done even in regions with limited space and poor access.
- Cement grouting is effective and easily adaptable to existing construction foundations.
- It doesn’t disrupt or cause inconvenience to the normal operations of the building.
- Cement grouting works as a barrier to groundwater flow..
- It is a successful application for underpinning foundation.
- Cement grouting is said to provide excavation support.
- The cement grouting process begins the stabilization and fortification of granular soils.
- Cement grouting is the best method to fill underground voids.
- Cement grouting pressured into rock fractures improves the stability of the rock formation.
- This strategy improves the pre-construction site and stops foundation settlements.
In the case of rocking slabs in warehouses or fixing and repair fractures in machine bases, cement grouting is an effective method. - Cement grouting also provides for the correction of sink-related concerns.
- The cement grouting method is advantageous for lifting and leveling slabs as well as sustaining settlements on soft grounded granular soils.