Geotechnical News • September 2015
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THE GROUT LINE
As promised, I conclude with, a quick
overview of the Annual Short Course
“Grouting Fundamentals and Current
Practice” from Scott Kieffer.
36th Annual Short Course
“Grouting Fundamentals & Cur-
rent Practice” Review
The 36
th
annual short course on Grout-
ing Fundamentals & Current Practice
was held from June 22-26, 2015 at the
Colorado School of Mines in Golden,
CO. With 115 delegates from five
continents, the breadth and depth of
grouting experience at the course was
exceptional, and discussions with the
course faculty were both insightful
and engaging. The traditional half-
day field demonstration included 16
manufacturers, suppliers and con-
tractors, and as always was a course
highlight. The demonstration included
overburden drilling techniques, high-
shear mixing, anchor installation and
testing, compaction and permeation
grouting, use of borehole packers,
hydraulic fracturing, computer moni-
toring, penetration of ultrafine cements
and colloidal silica, use of borehole
televiewers, and slab jacking with
chemical grouts.
The Grouting Fundamentals & Cur-
rent Practice short course is world
renowned and has been an esteemed
source of information and knowledge
for generations of grouters. The 37
th
course installment will be held from
June 13-17, 2016, again at the Colo-
rado School of Mines.
In closing, some comments from me. It
was, in my opinion, the best course in
my 6 years of participation.
Episode
Date
Author/s
Topic
28
Sep-12
Stuart Littlejohn
Scott Kieffer and others
Errata Corrige
CSM Grouting Course 2012
29
Dec-12
Paolo Gazzarrini
ISM and Use of Real Time Monitoring for micropile/
anchors testing and stressing
30
Mar-13
Brook Brosi and Clay Rathbun Use of dyed cement grout in foundation grouting
31
Jun-13
Donald Bruce
Refusal and closure in rock grouting; Let’s get it right!
32
Sep-13
Mohamed El Tani
Grouting Emancipation
33
Dec-13
Paolo Gazzarrini
A Christmas Fairy Tale of Rock Grouting in a Dam
34
Mar-14
Evind Grov and others
Rock Mass grouting in Sweden and Norway. A matter of
cultural differences or factual causes?
35
Jun-14
Paolo Gazzarrini
Sam Bandimere
Jet Grouting book review
A Grouting Industry Review
36
Sep-14
Jim Nickerson and others
Lake Mead- Intake Tunnel No. 3- Pre-excavation grouting
challenges using a high pressure slurry TBM
37
Dec-14
Marco Ziller, Maurizio Siepi
A challenging jet grouting project for the construction of
the railway tunnel in Stans (Austria)
38
Mar-15
Kathleen Bensko
Paolo Gazzarrini
US Army Corps of Engineer Grouting Technology Manual
presentation
Some considerations about the jet grouting reflow/spoil and
its management
39
Jun-15
Jim Warner
Grouting in Structures
