In the past, the engineers had some difficulties in
making desings on compressible grounds. That’s why the need for various improvement
methods have occured. Unforeseeable long-term placement in the ground compels
us to superfluous labour force and also extra costs in addition to waste of
time. When the simple and ordinary ground improvement methods are used in the
projects, it takes a rather long time. Such a waste of time can only be
prevented by creating artificial vertical drainage ways which provides the pore
water flow. Those artificial vertical drainage ways called Wick Drain consists
of plastic wicks that acting as free drainage ways. Wicks are covered with
geosynthetic filter.
ERKE Group is
the company that is the most experienced and preffered one in ground processing
Equipments sector. ERKE Group is the
only and first wick drain producer and exporter company in Turkey. ERKE
Group has many experiences and
references in wick drain production and
application. ERKE Group manufactured its
first wick drain is 2002. Since 2002, ERKE Group has been featured in many wick drain
applications in and outside of Turkey.
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WickDrain Sochi
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There are two types of wick drain manufactured by ERKE
Group . (w/ and w/out vibro) According to the ground type and desired depth,
the required type can be preffered. It is enough to use the one without vibro
in soft ground. Wick drain with vibro should be preffered in hard and difficult
ground. Hereby, there will be no need for any other drilling equipment.
Especially the main purpose of using wick drain is
fastening drainage and compression of ground, in addition of creating a stage
which has an ability to carry loads while consodilating.
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| EWD30 Türkmenistan |
The prominent basis of ERKE Group is to protect the national products that
manufactured in appropriate quality. Based on this idea that ERKE Group provided quality and nationwide distribution
with imports in bored piles, jet grouts, mini piles etc. Equipment group.
On the other hand ERKE Group makes domestic and overseas marketing for wick drain units. This is because ERKE Group aims at presenting quality and technology to the customers worldwide. When manufacturing is the matter, ERKE Group gives better results according to foreigner competitors.
ERKE Group has designed the wick drain system with taking aim at higher water flow capacity, filtering specialty with higher resistance and stabilized structure.
On the other hand ERKE Group makes domestic and overseas marketing for wick drain units. This is because ERKE Group aims at presenting quality and technology to the customers worldwide. When manufacturing is the matter, ERKE Group gives better results according to foreigner competitors.
ERKE Group has designed the wick drain system with taking aim at higher water flow capacity, filtering specialty with higher resistance and stabilized structure.
The application is as follows;
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| EWD25 Egypt |
Wick drain is produced as being able to move up and
down along the the mast in a vertical manner for easier assembling and
implementing. It’s a big advantage that machine can be mounted to all types of
excavators in each tonnage.
Wicks are added to drain drum which locates on the
machine. Sand, gravel or suitable materails (30- 40 cm) should be placed to
where wick drains will be already installed in. Afterwards the machine should
be vertically positioned. Now the machine is ready to create drainage ways.
Excavator puts wick drains into the ground with the
help of static hydraulic power. Mandrels that
involved in ERKE Group
branded wick drains was specially designed and also registered. Wicks
are located into the ground through the mandrel.
Drainage points should be already identified before
the process. Placing wick operation is needed to be repeated on each drainage
point. Required depth can be changed from one place to another. As a solution,
wick drains are usable in various sizes for different drainage projects.
Stoppers make the wick drains be fixed into ground
within needed depth. Hereafter mandrel takes out itself. By the stopper wick
drains do not move out while the mandrel is working.
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| EWD25 Iraq |
Drainage way is already done with the located wick
drains. For the next drainage point, it is required to cut the wick drain after
the mandrel is taken out.
The described steps are enough for soft soil. But for
the harder and more difficult ground, it is required that crush the rocks to
drive the mandrel. In this case wick drain w/ vibro should be preffered. Wick
drain w/ vibro system dissolves the requirement for any other drilling
equipment. After wick drains are located into ground, it is needed to put some
load onto ground. It will compress the ground and help to fasten the process.
Wick drain application will greatly reduce the ground
improvement time. When other methods are used, it can take more than a year.
This time can be reduced from years to few months.
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Wick drain can be
used
in all types of ground improving projects, including projects below.
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Highway embankments
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Bridges and passages
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Barrages
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Railways
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Airports and seaports
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Storage tanks
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Commercial and Residential
Buildings
A few projects that belongs to ERKE
Group are
listed
as follows;
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Waste water project in Bursa -
5.000.000 meters
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Railway project in Bilecik -
800.000 meters
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Railway project in İznik -
500.000 meters
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Railway project in İstanbul
Halkalı - 500.000 meters
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Waste water project in Konya -
1.500.000 meters
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Seaport project in Azerbaijan
Baku - 2.000.000 meters
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Petroleum Station project in
Iraq Basra - 3.000.000 meters
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Parking lot project in Russia
Sochi - 8.000.000 meters
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Egypt highway project 1.400.000
meters
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Turkmenistan port project
3.000.000 meters
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Panama residence project
1.200.000 meters
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