Techniques

Wet Soil Mixing

Wet soil mixing is the mechanical mixing of insitu soil with a cement grout slurry using a hollow stem paddle type mixer. The method relies on the introduction of an engineered grout slurry to create soil-cement (Soilcrete) elements for soil stabilisation, or to support earth or building loads.
The aim is to achieve improved engineering properties, generally compressive strength, shear strength or permeability.
Wet soil mixing can also be used to form ground water barriers, immobilise and or stabilise contaminants or as a chemical treatment system.

Typical applications include improvement of bearing capacity in soft or loose soils for light industrial structures or embankments, retaining walls, groundwater barriers etc.