SILENT
SILENT / VIBRATION FREE
PILING PRESSING SYSTEM
Quiet, vibration free installation and removal of steel sheet and foundation piles.
The Dawson concept
The Dawson silent piling pressing system technique starts when powerful hydraulic clamps take hold of the tops of several interlocked steel sheet piles. The piling rig then applies down-crowd force, pushing all piles until the rig reaches its safe load limit. This usually achieves several metres of penetration.
Maintaining this initial pre-load the hydraulic cylinders then apply vertical force to a single sheet pile whilst reacting on the rest of the pile group.
This downward force requires an equal and opposite reaction. Initially, most of this reaction is provided by the combined weight of the piling rig and the reaction piles. However, as penetration of the pile group advances the skin friction between the reaction piles and the ground becomes the most significant factor in developing adequate total reaction.
Once all piles in the group are advanced by the full stroke of all hydraulic cylinders, the entire pressing device retracts, ready to repeat the cycle. This simple process is the same irrespective of the total number of cylinders.
With the pile group fully installed the next group can be positioned and the whole process is repeated.
The rigid leader provides perfect pile alignment minimising interlock friction and producing a high quality installation. Unlike conventional presses there is no need to build a temporary reaction frame to start the first sheet piles.
Pile Extraction
Sheet pile extraction is simply undertaken in reverse order to that described above. The piling rig provides a maintained upward force on the press assembly with one or several hydraulic cylinders providing the upward extraction force on a single pile.
Principal Advantages
Quiet and vibration free
Powerful Silent Piling force of up to 200 tonnes for effective installation and extraction
Fast installation or extraction rates deliver high productivity and economy
Ready configured to suit Z, U & H-pile profiles in groups of between 2 to 6
No reaction frame required to start pile installation - unlike conventional pile presses
Corner piles easily installed without reaction frame
Offers truly recyclable foundation solutions
Standard Z-piles can be installed close to property boundaries - maximise development footprint
Leader guided operation reduces interlock friction and produces high quality, accurate installations
Piles can be removed, returning site to original ‘greenfield’ condition
Piles can be threaded without the use of a crane
Extra Advantages
Can be configured to install high capacity foundation piles formed by interlocking 4, 5 or 6 sheet piles in a box - SWL capacities up to 1400 tonnes
No spoil removal to landfill
No ground heave
Pile capacity measured during installation
Immediate loading
Low mass/volume material transport
Will accept side loads
Piles can be extended out of the ground to form permanent piers or columns
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