Expert advice on tunnelling, drilling and geotechnical issues
Many years of worldwide experience combined with an energetic, problem-solving approach means Mudtech are well placed to help you when ground conditions start eating into your schedule.
This is particularly applicable to problems with:
• EPB and pumped muck
• Slurry systems
• Environmental issues
• HDD and borehole instability and break out
• Friction issues
• Dust control
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Some typical problems
- Breakout
- Environmental issues
- Excessive mud and chemical consumption
- Excessive slurry disposal volume and cost
- Gravel and cobbles
- High annulus friction
- High muck friction in the head
- Ineffective flocculation
- Muck unacceptable for low cost disposal
- Pumped muck will not pump
- Silt and sand in invert
- Sloughing sands and shales
- Slow progress in clay
- Slurry density rise
- Slurry loss to ground
- Subsidence/heave from over/under mining
- Swelling clays
- Time lost from dumping and diluting
- Underperformance of centrifuges etc
- Washout at head
- Water production from face – unable to form plug
