Tokyo Gas Company Limited

Kawasaki Steel Corporation

Kabushiki Kaisha Iseki Kaihatsu Koki

Hakko Co., Ltd.

Nippon High Strength Concrete Co., Ltd.

Mitsutoshi Hayashi

Shingo Nagashima

Minoru Kurashina

Shigeru Morishita

Akira Adachi

Tomoya Fujimoto

Masaru Murakami

Kenko Okamura

Kentaro Yoshida

Akitaka Fujita

Akinari Fujita

Makoto Kajiyama

Hideki Uno

Akio Morinaga

Motoyuki Koga

Isao Fujimori

Shingo Nagashina

Mitsuo Ishitani

There is provided a double walled pipe having an inner pipe and an outer pipe which is movable relative to the inner pipe in a longitudinal direction of the inner pipe. Acting on only the outer pipe with a pipe jacking power makes it possible to bury the double walled pipe, without damaging the rear end of the inner pipe and also generating an internal stress on the inner pipe. Consequently, it is avoided such a situation that even in use pinholes, cracks, etc. occur on the inner pipe, and thus it is possible to expect an execution with higher reliability.

Double walled pipe, jacking method and pipe end structure of leading pipe

A tunnel liner used for a shield tunneling method for a tunnel having a diameter of 1.5 to 7 m is fabricated by dividing a ring-shaped liner into a plurality of parts in the circumferential direction. The tunnel liner is required to be excellent in the dimensional accuracy with respect to the outer peripheral surface, to be tight, to be high in strength, and to be high in water tightness at the abutment between the adjacent liners. The tunnel liner is fabricated by a method of filling each arcuate enclosed hollow form with concrete, vibro-compacting concrete, molding the end surfaces of the tunnel liner, mounting the forms within a centrifugal molding drum, and tightly molding the outer peripheral surface of the forms by applying of a centrifugal force. According to this fabrication method, it is possible to effectively fabricate an excellent tunnel liner at a low cost.

Fabrication method for a funnel liner

A conduit comprised of double-wall pipes A is laid in the ground by the pipe-jacking method. Each of double-wall pipes A comprises inner pipe 1 and outer pipe 2 and is provided with sheath pipe 4 between inner pipe 1 and outer pipe 2 and with check valve 7. Winch 11 is mounted in tunneling machine 6. Wire 12 wound on winch 11 is inserted into sheath pipe 4 and the forward end of wire 12 is sent to start vertical shaft C through sheath pipe 4, and connected with cleaning member 24, injecting member F, and supply pipe 14. Cleaning member 21, injecting member F, and supply pipe 14 are moved in sheath pipes 4 by driving winch 7. When injecting member F is opposed to check valve 7, packing means 19, 20 are inflated to be brought into contact with the inside of sheath pipe 4 by which injecting member F is fixed to sheath pipe 4. Lubricant or back-filling material is sent to a space between packing means in sheath pipe 3, and injected through check valve 7 into space 9 between the outside of outer pipe 2 and the ground.

Method for injecting lubricant or back-filling material into a space

When a shield tunneling machine is deviated from the scheduled line while being propelled, the deviation of the shield tunneling machine from the scheduled line is detected and according to the data obtained on the deviation of the shield tunneling machine from the scheduled line, the propelling direction of the shield tunneling machine is automatically controlled.

Method for controlling the direction of a shield tunneling machine and

When laying a conduit comprised of double-wall pipes A, each of which comprises inner pipe 1 and outer pipe 2, the smooth propulsion of double-wall pipes is possible by injecting lubricant into a space between the outside of double-wall pipes and the ground on a scheduled line along which conduit B to be laid is divided into section, each having a given length based upon the distance over which the effect of the lubricant can be maintained. Lubricant is injected from the double-wall pipes which is to be positioned at the heads in the respective sections 1 to n of supply pipes 3 which are provided between inner pipe 1 and outer pipe 2 of double-wall pipe A. Supply pipes of double-wall pipe A which has been propelled are connected with supply pipes of a new double-wall pipe, wherein the number of supply pipes connected with each other is determined for the respective sections. Lubricant is supplied from the upstream side and from the downstream side of the propelling direction to double-wall pipes. After conduit B has been laid, back-filling material as a filler is supplied to supply pipes 3 so that a space formed between the outside of double-wall pipes 23 and the ground is filled with filler. Sheath pipes 23 are provided between inner pipes 1 and outer pipes 2. After conduit B has been laid, back-filling material, as inside-filling material, is supplied to sheath pipes 23 so that a space between the outside of double-wall pipes and the ground is filled with inside-filling material.

Method for injecting lubricant and filler in the pipe-jacking method

A system for repairing joints in pipes laid underground, such as gas pipes, in their buried state, from their inside, to ensure their sealing. The system, in the process of pushing the resin used for repairing along the inside of the pipes by the pig, is to fill and seal the sealing material with the resin through gaps in numerous pipe joints inside of the pipes. In order to guarantee insertion of resin into gaps in the pipe joints (sealing material) whether or not the pipe joint has developed a leak, the system comprises a substitution pig, and a means whereby the pig pushes the resin placed ahead of it along the pipe, and further, a means whereby the filling amount of the resin does not change even if the amount of resin present in front of the pig differs between the early and later stages of the repairing operation, gaps in the pipe joints will be uniformly filled.

System for repairing joints in pipes laid underground

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Yokohama, Japan

Mitsutoshi Hayashi