JP2008120892A - Grouting material and method for grouting construction using the same - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a grouting material capable of suppressing the thickening of a silica slurry when using an alkaline hardener and carrying out permeation more than that of a conventional suspension type grouting material and to provide a method for grouting construction using the grouting material. <P>SOLUTION: The grouting material comprises amorphous particulate silica, an alkaline hardener, water and a thickening inhibitor which is a polymer composed of a carboxylic acid or a salt thereof as a main constituent monomer unit and having ≤80,000 weight-average molecular weight. The grouting material is characterized in that the amount of the hardener is ≤40 pts.mass in 100 pts.mass of the total amount of the amorphous particulate silica and the hardener and the solid content of the thickening inhibitor is further 0.1-20 pts.mass based on 100 pts.mass of the total amount of the amorphous particulate silica and the hardener. The method for grouting construction is characterized by using the grouting material. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a ground injection material used in ground improvement work and water stop work in various civil engineering works.

Conventionally, an injection method has been used in which ground is reinforced and water is stopped with a suspension-type injection material in which finely pulverized cement or slag is dispersed in water.
However, in very small cracks where the ground is fine sand, viscous, or rock, the permeability is small and injection may not be possible.

  Since these soils require high penetration performance, materials that are dispersed without dissolving in water, such as suspension-type injections, are subject to construction results depending on the size of their constituent particles. Is affected.

  In addition, the higher the viscosity of the injection material, the worse the permeability, but on the other hand, it is preferable to increase the strength as much as possible in terms of shortening the construction time and improving the water permeability. However, a low-viscosity material is required.

In such a background, it is conceivable to use amorphous fine particle silica having a very small particle diameter. Therefore, a method has been proposed in which fine particle silica is slurried and a dispersant and a water reducing agent are mixed to obtain a stable low viscosity (see Patent Documents 1 to 4).
Japanese Patent Publication No. 05-8136 Japanese Patent No. 3451407 Japanese Patent No. 2661893 Japanese Patent Publication No. 01-35789

  These patent documents also show a material containing a thickening inhibitor containing carboxylic acid or a salt thereof as a main constituent monomer unit in fine particle silica, both of which are used as cement admixtures. The content ratio of fine particle silica is less than that of cement (Patent Document 1, Column 4, lines 5 to 6, Patent Document 2, paragraph [0020], Patent Document 3, paragraph [0012]), and fine particles. It has not been shown to be applied to ground-injection materials mainly composed of silica.

In addition, a method of mixing ultrafine cement or fine slaked lime and silica fume and using it as an injection material has been proposed (see Patent Documents 5 and 6).
Japanese Patent No. 3129745 Japanese Patent Publication No. 05-81632

  However, as shown in Patent Documents 5 and 6, when a silica fine powder is mixed with a curing material exhibiting alkalinity to make a slurry, the pH of the slurry becomes high, and the viscosity increases instantly so that the penetration performance is exhibited. There are issues such as being unable to do so.

  The present invention is intended to solve the above-described problems, suppresses the thickening of the silica slurry when an alkaline curing material is used, and can penetrate more than a conventional suspension-type injection material. It is an object to provide a ground injection material and a ground injection method using the same.

The present invention employs the following means in order to solve the above problems.
(1) Contains a thickening inhibitor which is a polymer having a weight average molecular weight of 80,000 or less having amorphous fine particle silica, an alkaline curing material, water, and carboxylic acid or a salt thereof as main constituent monomer units. In the ground injection material obtained, the curing material is 40 parts by mass or less in a total amount of 100 parts by mass of the amorphous fine particle silica and the curing material, and the solid content of the thickening inhibitor is amorphous. The ground injecting material is 0.1 to 20 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the total amount of the fine particulate silica and the curing material.
(2) The injection material according to (1), wherein the carboxylic acid of the thickening inhibitor or a salt thereof is a salt of acrylic acid or methacrylic acid.
(3) The injection material according to (1) or (2), wherein the thickening inhibitor is a copolymer of acrylic acid and sulfonic acid or a sodium salt thereof.
(4) The injecting material according to any one of (1) to (3), wherein the curing material is an inorganic powder containing calcium and exhibiting alkalinity having a pH of 9 or more.
(5) The injection material according to any one of (1) to (4), further comprising an alkali metal carbonate as a curing accelerator.
(6) A ground injection method using the ground injection material according to any one of (1) to (5).

  The thickening of the silica slurry is suppressed when an alkaline curing material is used, injection at a high concentration can be performed, and further, the effect of improving the permeability compared to the conventional suspension type injection material can be obtained.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail.
In the present invention, “part” and “%” are based on mass unless otherwise specified.

The amorphous fine particle silica used in the present invention is a method for collecting fumes (silica fume) generated from an electric furnace in the process of producing metallic silicon, ferrosilicon, or zirconia, for example, slurry in which metallic silicon powder is dispersed. Produced by a so-called dry method, such as a method of injecting a gas into a high temperature field to burn and oxidize, and a method of sending a gasified silicon compound into a flame such as a halide such as silicon tetrachloride. For example, silica powder produced by any of the wet methods of producing by precipitation from a silicate aqueous solution by a sol-gel method can be used, and is not particularly limited. Among these, fine particle silica produced by a dry method is particularly preferable because of less aggregation (structure).
The SiO ₂ component of the amorphous fine particle silica is preferably 85% or more, more preferably 90% or more. Further, the amorphous fine particle silica used preferably has a maximum primary particle size of 10 μm or less.

The alkaline curing material used in the present invention is preferably an inorganic powder containing calcium and exhibiting alkalinity having a pH of 9 or more. There are alkaline mineral calcium salts such as slaked lime, various Portland cements such as ordinary Portland cement, fine cements mixed with slag and cement developed for injection, and special cements such as fine cements and classified cements classified from ordinary cements. Any of these can be used and is not particularly limited.
The particle size of the curing material is preferably finer in balance with the particles of amorphous fine particle silica, and the average particle size is more preferably 20 μm or less.
The amount of the curing material used is preferably 40 parts or less, more preferably 2 to 20 parts, in 100 parts of the total amount of the amorphous fine particle silica and the curing material. If it exceeds 40 parts, the permeability may deteriorate.

  The thickening inhibitor used in the present invention has carboxylic acid or a salt thereof as a main constituent monomer unit. Specific examples of the unsaturated carboxylic acid (salt) as a monomer include acrylic acid, Examples include methacrylic acid, crotonic acid, maleic acid, maleic anhydride, fumaric acid, itaconic acid, citraconic acid and cinnamic acid, and salts thereof. These unsaturated carboxylic acids (salts) may be used alone or in combination of two or more. In the present invention, it is preferable to use acrylic acid (salt) or methacrylic acid (salt), and it is particularly preferable to use a copolymer of acrylic acid and sulfonic acid or a sodium salt thereof.

  The polymer used as a thickening inhibitor in the present invention is mainly composed of a polycarboxylic acid (salt), and is mainly composed of an unsaturated carboxylic acid (salt). Depending on the fluidity, etc., other polymerizable monomers such as unsaturated sulfonic acid or its salt (hereinafter referred to as “unsaturated sulfonic acid (salt)”), acrylamide, vinyl acetate, styrene, alkyl acrylate Esters, acrylic acid hydroxyalkyl esters, acrylic acid (poly) alkylene glycol esters, methacrylic acid (poly) alkylene glycol esters, methacrylic acid alkyl esters, and the like are used as constituent monomer components.

The polymer used in the present invention is a polymer used as a dispersant, an admixture for concrete, a detergent builder or a chelating agent, more specifically a polymer having a weight average molecular weight of about 80,000 or less, 50,000 or less is preferable. Although the minimum of a weight average molecular weight is not specifically limited, Usually, it is 250 or more, and it is more preferable that it is 1,000 or more. If the weight average molecular weight of the polycarboxylic acid is out of the above range, the thickening suppressing effect may not be recognized, and the dispersibility may not be exhibited. The weight average molecular weight in the present invention refers to a molecular weight obtained by gel permeation chromatography using sodium polyacrylate as a standard substance.
The amount of the thickening inhibitor used is preferably 0.1 to 20 parts, more preferably 0.5 to 10 parts, based on 100 parts of the total amount of the amorphous fine particle silica and the curing material. preferable. When the amount is less than 0.1 part, there are many cases where there is almost no effect. When the amount exceeds 20 parts, the particles of the material used aggregate to adversely affect the permeability, and the setting delay may become strong and may not be cured.

The curing accelerator used in the present invention is not particularly limited as long as it is a general cement accelerator such as alkali metal carbonate, alumina compound, alkali metal (earth) chloride, alkali metal sulfate, alkali hydroxide, etc. However, alkali metal carbonates that produce sparingly soluble calcium salts are preferred. Of these, use of potassium carbonate having high solubility is particularly preferred.
The amount of the curing accelerator used is preferably 0.5 to 5 parts, more preferably 1 to 3 parts with respect to 100 parts of the total weight of the amorphous fine particle silica and the curing material. If it is less than 0.5 part, curing may not be accelerated, and if it exceeds 5 part, the permeability may be adversely affected.

The amount of water in the case of using the injection material as a suspension is not particularly limited as long as it can be pumped by a pump, but it is preferably 50 to 1000 parts with respect to 100 parts by weight of the total weight of the amorphous fine particle silica and the hardening material. -500 parts is more preferable.
If it is less than 50 parts, the viscosity of the suspension may increase quickly and the permeability may deteriorate, and if it exceeds 1000 parts, it may not be cured.

  In the ground injection method of the present invention, the mixing method and the injection method of the injection material are not particularly limited, and the single tube lot method, the single tube strainer method, the double tube single phase method, the double tube double phase method It can be applied to currently used construction methods such as double pipe double packer construction method.

  EXAMPLES Hereinafter, although an Example demonstrates this invention in detail, this invention is not limited to these Examples.

A suspension was prepared by mixing 0.7 part of a thickening inhibitor and 130 parts of water with respect to a total weight of 100 parts of 80 parts of amorphous fine-particle silica and 20 parts of a hardening material to prepare an injection material. Table 1 shows the results of measuring the viscosity immediately after the injection material was prepared.
<Materials used>
Amorphous fine particle silica: Commercial product, fine particle silica (average particle size 0.5 μm)
Curing material: Commercial product, fine particle slaked lime (average particle size 16 μm, pH 12.3)
Thickening inhibitor A: Citric acid thickening inhibitor B: Gluconic acid thickening inhibitor C: Tartaric acid thickening inhibitor D: Naphthalene sulfonic acid-based thickening inhibitor E: A copolymer sodium salt of acrylic acid and sulfonic acid , Weight average molecular weight 3,000
Thickening inhibitor F: acrylic acid, sulfonic acid copolymer sodium salt, weight average molecular weight 30,000
Thickening inhibitor G: acrylic acid, sulfonic acid copolymer sodium salt, weight average molecular weight 100,000
Thickening inhibitor H: Sodium polyacrylate, weight average molecular weight 5,000
Water: Tap water

<Measurement method>
Measure the prepared suspension using a B-type rotational viscometer and a tuning-fork type vibration viscometer

As shown in Table 1, Examples No. 1-6, No. 1-7 and No. 1-9 injections using thickening inhibitors E, F and H in the composition range of the present invention It was confirmed that the material had a low viscosity and suppressed thickening.
On the other hand, when the thickening inhibitor is not a polymer having a carboxylic acid or a salt thereof as a main constituent monomer unit, the suppression of thickening is less than when the thickening inhibitor is not used. Insufficient (Experiment No. 1-1 to No. 1-5), even with the polymer, when the weight average molecular weight exceeds 80,000, no thickening inhibiting effect is observed (Experiment No. 1- 8).

  A suspension was prepared with the blending amounts shown in Table 2 with respect to 100 parts of the total amount of the amorphous fine particle silica and the curing material, and the viscosity and the solidified state were measured. The results are shown in Table 2.

<Materials used>
Amorphous fine particle silica: Commercial product, fine particle silica (average particle size 0.5 μm)
Curing material: Commercial product, fine particle slaked lime (average particle size 16 μm, pH 12.3)
Thickening inhibitor E: acrylic acid, sulfonic acid copolymer sodium salt, weight average molecular weight 3,000
Water: Tap water curing accelerator: Yoneyama Chemical Co., potassium carbonate

<Measurement method>
Viscosity measurement: The suspension immediately after preparation was measured with a B-type rotary viscometer and a tuning-fork type vibration viscometer.
Measurement of solidified state: The prepared suspension was put into a cup, and the state after 3 days was confirmed.
No fluidity is indicated by ○, fluidity slightly is indicated by Δ, and fluidity is indicated by ×.

As shown in Table 2, when the solid content of the thickening inhibitor is 0.1 to 20 parts with respect to 100 parts of the total amount of the amorphous fine particle silica and the curing material, there is a thickening suppressing effect, It was confirmed that the solidified state was also good (Experiment No. 1-6, No. 2-6 to No. 2-12, No. 2-14 to No. 2-17).
On the other hand, in the case where only the amorphous fine particle silica and the curing material are added and no thickening inhibitor is blended, the solidified state is good, but the viscosity increases, which is not preferable (Experiment No. 2-2). ~ No.2-4).
On the other hand, when the solid content of the thickening inhibitor exceeds 20 with respect to 100 parts of the total amount of the amorphous fine particle silica and the curing material, the thickening suppressing effect is saturated and the solidified state is deteriorated (Experiment No. 2). -13).

  A suspension was prepared in the same manner as in Examples 1 and 2 for the injection material selected from Examples 1 and 2 and the injection material in which the blending ratio of the amorphous fine particle silica and the curing material was changed as shown in Table 3. A permeability evaluation test was conducted. The results are shown in Table 3.

<Measurement method>
A civil engineering society standard vinyl bag with a diameter of 5 cm was filled with Toyoura cinnabar so as to be 20 cm, and 200 ml of the prepared injection material was gently poured from the upper surface to allow natural penetration, and the penetration length was measured.

As shown in Table 3, the curing material is 40 parts by mass or less in 100 parts by mass of the total amount of the amorphous fine particle silica and the curing material, and the injection material containing the thickening inhibitor has a penetration length. Long and excellent permeability was confirmed (Experiment No.1-6, No.2-6, No.2-9 to No.2-13, No.3-1 to No.3-3) ).
On the other hand, when only the amorphous fine particle silica and the curing material are not blended with the thickening inhibitor, even if the thickening inhibitor is blended, the curing material is the total amount of the amorphous fine particle silica and the curing material. When the amount exceeds 40 parts by mass in 100 parts by mass, the permeability is deteriorated (Experiment No. 2-2, No. 2-7).

  Suppressing the thickening of the silica slurry when using an alkaline curing agent can be expected to allow more penetration than conventional suspension-type injection materials. It is useful as a ground injection material used in water works.

Claims (6)

  It contains a thickening inhibitor that is a polymer having a weight average molecular weight of 80,000 or less having amorphous fine particle silica, an alkaline curing material, water, and carboxylic acid or a salt thereof as main constituent monomer units. In the ground injection material, the curing material is 40 parts by mass or less in 100 parts by mass of the total amount of the amorphous fine particle silica and the curing material, and the solid content of the thickening inhibitor is amorphous fine particle silica. The ground injection material, which is 0.1 to 20 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the total amount of the curing material.   The ground injection material according to claim 1, wherein the carboxylic acid of the thickening inhibitor or a salt thereof is a salt of acrylic acid or methacrylic acid.   The ground injection material according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the thickening inhibitor is a copolymer of acrylic acid and sulfonic acid or a sodium salt thereof.   The ground injection material according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the hardener is an inorganic powder containing calcium and further exhibiting alkalinity having a pH of 9 or more.   Furthermore, an alkali metal carbonate is contained as a hardening accelerator, The ground injection material as described in any one of Claims 1-4 characterized by the above-mentioned.   A ground injection construction method using the ground injection material according to any one of claims 1 to 5.