Testing of self-drilled hollow bar soil nails

Fraser Lindsay; Slobodan Mickovski; Martyn Smith

doi:10.1680/ecsmge.60678

Testing of self-drilled hollow bar soil nails

Fraser Lindsay, Slobodan Mickovski, Martyn Smith

Civil Engineering and Environmental Management

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Abstract

Current standards and best practice guidance recognise that testing of self-drilled soil nails can be problematic as conventional packers and debonded lengths cannot be constructed. As a result, this provides difficulty in testing and confirming the ultimate bond resistance within the passive zone of a soil nailed slope, and thus the soil nail lengths determined within the design. This paper provides a summary and review of the various testing procedures adopted for a recent soil nail construction project in Scotland. Approximately 1,500
self-drilled hollow bar soil nails were installed to depths between 7 m and 24 m to stabilise a 40 m high coastal slope with a history of instability.
Fifty six sacrificial test nails were installed and tested at the site by various methods to validate the soil nail lengths determined within the design. These methods, the associated construction issues and design assumptions, and the subsequent test results have been discussed in this paper.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the XVI ECSMGE Geotechnical Engineering for Infrastructure and Development Conference
Publisher	ICE Publishing
Pages	2969-2974
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	9780727760678
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1680/ecsmge.60678
Publication status	Published - 2015
Event	XVI ECSMGE Geotechnical Engineering for Infrastructure and Development - Edinburgh, United Kingdom Duration: 14 Sept 2015 → 18 Sept 2015

Publication series

Name	Geotechnical Engineering for Infrastructure and Development - Proceedings of the XVI European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, ECSMGE 2015
Volume	6

Conference

Conference	XVI ECSMGE Geotechnical Engineering for Infrastructure and Development
Abbreviated title	XVI ECSMGE
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Edinburgh
Period	14/09/15 → 18/09/15

Keywords

environmental engineering
hollow bar soil nails

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Bervie Braes at 10 years: critical review of the effectiveness of slope stabilisation measures
Mickovski, S. B., 17 Sept 2024, Geotechnical Engineering Challenges to Meet Current and Emerging Needs of Society: Proceedings of the XVIII European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering 2024. Guerra, N., Fernandes, M. M., Ferreira, C., Correia, A. G., Pinto, A. & Sêco e Pinto, P. (eds.). CRC Press, p. 3141-3144 4 p.
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Production rate of self-drilling soil nails in a coastal slope stabilisation project in Scotland
Mickovski, S. B., 1 May 2022, Proceedings of 20th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering . Rahman, M. M. & Jaksa, M. (eds.). ISSMGE, p. 4273-4278 7 p.
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An overview of monitoring methods for assessing the performance of nature-based solutions against natural hazards
Kumar, P., Debele, S. E., Sahani, J., Rawat, N., Marti-Cardona, B., Alfieri, S. M., Basu, B., Basu, A. S., Bowyer, P., Charizopoulos, N., Jaakko, J., Loupis, M., Menenti, M., Mickovski, S. B., Pfeiffer, J., Pilla, F., Pröll, J., Pulvirenti, B., Rutzinger, M. & Sannigrah, S. & 4 others, Spyrou, C., Tuomenvirta, H., Vojinovic, Z. & Zieher, T., Jun 2021, In: Earth Science Reviews . 217, p. 1-26 26 p., 103603.
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Lindsay, F., Mickovski, S., & Smith, M. (2015). Testing of self-drilled hollow bar soil nails. In Proceedings of the XVI ECSMGE Geotechnical Engineering for Infrastructure and Development Conference (pp. 2969-2974). (Geotechnical Engineering for Infrastructure and Development - Proceedings of the XVI European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, ECSMGE 2015; Vol. 6). ICE Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1680/ecsmge.60678

Lindsay, Fraser ; Mickovski, Slobodan ; Smith, Martyn. / Testing of self-drilled hollow bar soil nails. Proceedings of the XVI ECSMGE Geotechnical Engineering for Infrastructure and Development Conference. ICE Publishing, 2015. pp. 2969-2974 (Geotechnical Engineering for Infrastructure and Development - Proceedings of the XVI European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, ECSMGE 2015).

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Lindsay, F, Mickovski, S & Smith, M 2015, Testing of self-drilled hollow bar soil nails. in Proceedings of the XVI ECSMGE Geotechnical Engineering for Infrastructure and Development Conference. Geotechnical Engineering for Infrastructure and Development - Proceedings of the XVI European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, ECSMGE 2015, vol. 6, ICE Publishing, pp. 2969-2974, XVI ECSMGE Geotechnical Engineering for Infrastructure and Development, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 14/09/15. https://doi.org/10.1680/ecsmge.60678

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Lindsay F, Mickovski S, Smith M. Testing of self-drilled hollow bar soil nails. In Proceedings of the XVI ECSMGE Geotechnical Engineering for Infrastructure and Development Conference. ICE Publishing. 2015. p. 2969-2974. (Geotechnical Engineering for Infrastructure and Development - Proceedings of the XVI European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, ECSMGE 2015). doi: 10.1680/ecsmge.60678

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Bervie Braes at 10 years: critical review of the effectiveness of slope stabilisation measures

Production rate of self-drilling soil nails in a coastal slope stabilisation project in Scotland

An overview of monitoring methods for assessing the performance of nature-based solutions against natural hazards

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