Grouting involves the injection of appropriate materials under pressure into certain parts of the earth's crust through specially constructed holes in order to fill, and therefore seal, voids, cracks, seams, fissures, or other cavities in soils or rock strata. The result is to ensure watertightness by establishing very low or negligible permeability, thus reducing or preventing uplift and other movements deleterious to engineering structures. Compaction Grouting is a recent invention, which relies not on infilling, but on densification of suitable soils by displacement in order to overcome settlement and other problems. The term grouting may also be applied to the sealing of cracks in manmade structures such as dams, tunnels, and mines.
Almost certainly, the most widely used grout is made up of cement and water, probably because of the relatively low cost. Additionally, clay, clay and cement, asphalt and various chemical solutions, and a number of other materials in differing...
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Bowen, R. (1984). Grout, grouting . In: Finkl, C. (eds) Applied Geology. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series, vol 3. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-30842-3_32
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