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    A slurry wall is a civil engineering technique used to build reinforced concrete walls in areas of soft earth close to open water, or with a high groundwater...
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    known as a lahar A mixture of bentonite and water used to make slurry walls Coal slurry, a mixture of coal waste and water, or crushed coal and water Slip...
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    nonclay-using farmers. Bentonite slurry walls (also known as diaphragm walls ) are used in construction, where the slurry wall is a trench filled with a thick...
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  • party wall agreements allow, ground anchors can be used as tie backs. A slurry wall is a barrier built under ground using a mix of bentonite and water to...
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    completely from HDPE Pipe, although this requires a very thick pipe wall. Slurry pipelines are used as an alternative to railroad transportation when...
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    twin towers, involved many other innovative techniques, such as the slurry wall for digging the foundation, and wind tunnel experiments. Construction...
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    feet (65 m) below the surface. A new method was used to construct a slurry wall to keep out water from the Hudson River. During excavation of the site...
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    engineers was to use a slurry wall; digging very narrow trenches about 3 feet (0.91 m) wide and then filling these with a slurry (a mixture of clay and...
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    stabilized earth Earth anchor Cliff stabilization Grout curtain Retaining wall Slurry wall Soil nailing Tieback (geotechnical) Trench shoring Caisson Dam Gabion...
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    then built a slurry wall within the trench, made of concrete and reinforced steel. Workers used steel bracing to prevent the slurry wall from collapsing...
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    Glacial Period. The current tower's foundation is surrounded by a slurry wall. The slurry wall is largely anchored to the bedrock, except at the southeast corner...
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    build a "bathtub" with a slurry wall around the West Street side of the site, to keep water from the Hudson River out. The slurry method selected by the...
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  • border (sometimes referred to as the smart wall on the Israel–Gaza border) is an underground slurry wall constructed by Israel along the entire 40-kilometer...
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    first utilized slurry wall techniques to create 120-foot-deep (37 m) concrete walls upon which the highway could rest. These concrete walls also stabilized...
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    The name is more so used to describe its shape of a deep basin with high walls, like a bathtub. The Bathtub, built in 1967–1968, encompasses a large, roughly...
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    construction, trenches are dug for foundations of buildings, retaining walls and dams, and for cut-and-cover construction of tunnels. In archaeology...
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    architectural techniques while building the stadium. At the base is a slurry wall to keep out the waters from the Olentangy River; the stadium rests on...
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    secant and tangent walls) to provide additional stability to cantilevered retaining walls. With one end of the tieback secured to the wall, the other end...
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    Earthworks Shoring structures Retaining walls Gabion Ground freezing Mechanically stabilized earth Pressure grouting Slurry wall Soil nailing Tieback Land development...
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    material can also be contained by physical barriers like slurry walls. The use of slurry walls is well-established in the construction industry. The application...
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  • Earthworks Shoring structures Retaining walls Gabion Ground freezing Mechanically stabilized earth Pressure grouting Slurry wall Soil nailing Tieback Land development...
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    The Kingston Fossil Plant coal fly ash slurry spill was an environmental and industrial disaster that occurred on December 22, 2008, when a dike ruptured...
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    "tridents" from the Twin Towers. One of the museum's walls is an exposed side of the slurry wall retaining the Hudson River, which remained intact through...
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    utilitarian and decorative, and construction products, such as bricks, walls, and floor tiles. Different types of clay, when used with different minerals...
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    Earthworks Shoring structures Retaining walls Gabion Ground freezing Mechanically stabilized earth Pressure grouting Slurry wall Soil nailing Tieback Land development...
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    slow and demanding, requiring teamwork and coordination. To prevent the walls from collapsing and to ensure water quality, the borehole is lined with...
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    mixtures usual non-mechanized application. Cement Rebar Reinforced concrete Slurry wall Structural engineering Flintstone House – an example of shotcrete housing...
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    Earthworks Shoring structures Retaining walls Gabion Ground freezing Mechanically stabilized earth Pressure grouting Slurry wall Soil nailing Tieback Land development...
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    Earthworks Shoring structures Retaining walls Gabion Ground freezing Mechanically stabilized earth Pressure grouting Slurry wall Soil nailing Tieback Land development...
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    Retrieved 12 February 2019. "Our use of sand brings us "up against the wall", says UNEP report" (Press release). Geneva: United Nations Environment Programme...
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