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Vacuum Consolidation Suvarnabhumi Airport PDF

The BeauDrain-S system was used to consolidate soil for the construction of Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Bangkok, Thailand. It uses a vacuum and vertical drains to accelerate consolidation of highly compressible soils. The project involved improving 19 areas totaling 400,000 square meters that required 60% consolidation within 100-120 days under a 2.8 meter surcharge. Vertical drains were installed using a special stitcher up to 10 meters deep with triangular spacing of 0.85-0.90 meters. The BeauDrain-S system was chosen to reduce impact on surrounding areas and shorten the consolidation period for the extremely soft clay soils.

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Vacuum Consolidation Suvarnabhumi Airport PDF

The BeauDrain-S system was used to consolidate soil for the construction of Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Bangkok, Thailand. It uses a vacuum and vertical drains to accelerate consolidation of highly compressible soils. The project involved improving 19 areas totaling 400,000 square meters that required 60% consolidation within 100-120 days under a 2.8 meter surcharge. Vertical drains were installed using a special stitcher up to 10 meters deep with triangular spacing of 0.85-0.90 meters. The BeauDrain-S system was chosen to reduce impact on surrounding areas and shorten the consolidation period for the extremely soft clay soils.

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BeauDrain-S

Project report
Suvarnabhumi airport, Bangkok
The system
BeauDrain-S is a recently developed,
patented system to accelerate the
consolidation process of highly compressible, cohesive soils. Its principles are based on those of the traditional vacuum consolidation.

starting the pump, the upper meter


of the cohesive strata will act as a
seal allowing a vacuum to develop in
the compressible soil mass. After a
check of the system a sand fill or an
additional surcharge can be placed
over the area to be consolidated.

By creating a vacuum in the soil


mass, the atmospheric pressure is
mobilized as a temporary surcharge.
In addition, the length of the drainage path of the pore water is reduced
by the installation of vertical drains.

The project
Due to the limited capacity of Don
Muang Airport, Thai authorities decided to build a new international airport; Suvarnabhumi airport. For this
project, 19 different areas varying
from 4.500m2 to 88.000m2 (total
400.000m2) required ground improvement. The client requested a consolidation degree of 60% within 100
to 120 days with a surcharge of 2.8
meters and an atmospheric pressure
of 60 kPa in the drain on a depth of
5 meters.

During the installation of the system,


a modified drain stitcher installs a
predefined length of prefabricated
vertical drain (pvd) connected to the
bottom of a tube. To ensure an airtight system, the top of the pvd must
be buried in the soft, compressible
layers. This is usualy at a depth of
1m below the groundwater table or
at the boundary with the permeable
layers. After installation, only the
tube is present at the surface, where
it is connected to a special pump.
The hole produced by the mandrel of
the drain stitcher closes in on itself
or will be plugged with clay. After

Equipment
Because of the short period of consolidation and the size of the areas
to be consolidated, a maximum of
eleven 40-tonnes cranes were used
during the installation of the BeauDrain-S Drain.

Kwadrantweg 9, 1042 AG Amsterdam


P.O. Box 20694, 1001 NR Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel.: +31 (0)20-69 34 569
Fax.: +31 (0)20-69 41 457
E-mail: [email protected]
Internet: www.cofra.com

Drain configuration
The drains were installed up to a
depth of 10 meters - MSL with a triangular centre to centre distance of
0.85 and 0.90 meters.
Review
The BeauDrain-S system has been
chosen for this project in order to
reduce the influence on the surrounding areas and to shorten the
consolidation period. Because of the
extremely soft clay in the soil, horizontal deformation was minimized
by applying BeauDrain-S.

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