Geotechnical and Civil Engineering Products

Ground Anchors
Rock Bolts

Soil Nails

Mini Piles

1. Engineering Issues
2. Product Classification
3. Soil Nails (Solid or Hollow)
4. Bearing Plates & Facing Options
5. Ground Anchors (Bar or Strand)
6. Corrosion Protection
7. DYWIDAG Threadbars
8. Stressing and Testing Services

Engineering Issues for Designers

Soil Nails

Ground Anchors

Rock Bolts

1. Practicality of Installation :
Access, Drilling
2. Load Performance:
Tested Performance, Creep

3. Durability:
Lifespan, Corrosion Protection

High Level Staging for 2 No. 12t C6 Drilling Rigs

Rosyth Dockyard

Winch Suspended
Drill Rig and Grout
Plant
GEWI Soil Nails

Decommissioning
of M.O.D. Water
Catchment System,
Gibraltar

Roped Access Soil Nail Installation

Dawlish Cliffs, Devon

Long reach excavators (25m) Soil Nail Installation

Crewe

Unrestricted Access (e.g. Bench)

Crawler Drill Rig

Ballymeena

Open Hole Installation (cohesive soils, Clay etc.) GEWI-Steel, Solid Threadbar

Self-Drilling Hollow Bar (DYWI Drill) for loose or collapsing soils: gravels,
sands, mixed fills

Cased Installation - Typically heavier installations (Anchors or Mini Piles)

Heavy drill rig (10-12t) required at point of borehole

Load Performance - Ground Anchors

Gilboa Dam, USA (1000t test)

Load Performance - Soil Nails

Sacrificial Nails

Load Performance - Rock Bolts

(Hybrid Bolt / Tieback)

Durability - Corrosion Protection

Products / Applications:

Soil Nails
Rock Bolts
Mini Piles
Anti Flotation Tension Piles
Ground Anchors

Soil Nails

Lightly loaded
(i.e. 60-100 kN)

Fully Bonded

Passive (i.e. not

prestressed)

Lower Risk, lower

levels of corrosion
protection

M40 East, Beaconsfield

Solid Bar Soil Nail

(GEWI-Steel)
Open Hole Installation
(cohesive soils or
cased holes)

Sacrificial Corrosion
Allowance
Galvanizing

Hollow Bar Soil Nail

(DYWI Drill)
Self-Drilling System
Simultaneous Drill
and Grout
No casing required in
Granular soils

Deltax Slope Stabilisation Mesh - Soil or Rock Faces

Drape Mesh

Tintern, Chepstow

Drape Mesh - Chainlink Format

Cuttings or Embankments (Reinforced Geogrid, up to 50) Porth S. Wales

Geogrid with Cellular Soil Facing System (Concealed Termination) A3 Hindhead

Steeper Slopes 60+

Soil Panel

DYWI Drill Hollow Bar, TV4 Tamworth

Road Widening, Steep Face 60 +

Shotcrete

Starfish Plate c/w Central Boss

Profiled Bearing Plate with Embossed Logo West Gate, Warwick

Rock Bolts / Rock Dowels

Rock Bolts / Rock Dowels

Passive Installation

Lightly Loaded

Used for face

stabilisation, netting,
pinning etc.

Not to be confused
with Rock Anchors
(see Ground Anchors)

GEWI-Steel (Galvanized) Rock Bolts

Winterbourne, Bristol

Mini Piles
Foundation Upgrade
or Remediation

Anti Flotation Tension Piles

Fully Bonded

Passive
Installation

Often Heavily
Loaded

Bearing Plate
Cast within Slab

Corrosion
Protection
Essential for
Permanent Works

Ground Anchors / Rock Anchors

Active
(i.e. prestressed)

Debonded Free Length

Typically Heavily
Loaded

Lengths Often in
Excess of 20m

Higher Risk than Soil

Nails

Corrosion Protection
Essential for
Permanent Works

Permanent Bar Anchors - Retaining Wall Tieback

A259 Winchelsea, Rye

Capacities up to 3500 kN
Typical Lengths: 12 - 24m
Simpler Installation

Bar Anchor (Permanent)

Bar Anchor (Corrosion Protection)

Bar Anchor, Crack Width Control (Encapsulated Grout)

Threadform of Bar
generates uniform crack
widths
Crack widths of < 0.1mm,
prevent water ingress
Grout must be
encapsulated within
ribbed plastic sleeve
Borehole grout is not
accepted as corrosion
protection barrier

Strand Anchors
Pregrouted Bond Length

Coiled Free Length

Permanent Strand Anchors

Glensanda, Highlands

Strand Anchor (Permanent)

High Capacities (up to 3000-6000 kN +)
Long Lengths (30-70m +)
Head Detail More Complicated
Greater Extension

Strand Anchor (Corrosion Protection)

Difference Between:
Tension Piles

Ground Anchors

Fully Bonded

Debonded Free Length

Passive

Prestressed

Will extend when

subjected to service
loadings

No extension under service

loadings

Corrosion Protection Options - Classification of Application

Application

Load Classification

Risk
Corrosion protection
Design Code

Soil Nail

Lightly Loaded
Fully Bonded
Passive

Low Risk
Plain or Galvanized
(High Risk, DCP)
EN 14490
TRL 380

Rock Bolt / Dowel

Lightly Loaded
Fully Bonded
Passive

Low Risk
Plain or Galvanized
(High Risk, DCP)

Mini Pile (compression)

Low to Medium Loading

(Compression)
Fully Bonded
Passive

Low to Medium Risk

Plain or Galvanized
(High Risk, DCP)
EN 14199

Mini Pile (tension)

Medium to High Loading

(Tension)
Fully Bonded
Passive

Medium Risk
Usually DCP
EN 14199 BS 8081

Medium to Heavy Loading

Debonded (i.e. Prestressed)
Active

Higher Risk
Double Corrosion Protection
BS 8081 EN 1537

Anti-Flotation Tension
Pile
Ground Anchor

Galvanized Threadbar

DYWIDAG Threadbars

GEWI-Steel Threadbar

Grade: 500 / 600

N/mm2 (High Yield)
Left-Hand Thread
Thread Pitch D/2
Corrosion Protection:
Sacrificial Corrosion
Allowance or
Galvanized
Applications:
Soil Nails
Rock Bolts
Mini Piles

GEWI-Plus Threadbar
Grade: 670 / 800

N/mm2 (Intermediate)
Right-Hand Thread
Thread Pitch D/3
Corrosion Protection:
Sacrificial Corrosion
Allowance or
Galvanizing
Applications:
Tie Bars
Anti-Flotation
Tension Piles
Small Rock Bolts

DYWIDAG Prestressing Steel Threadbar

Grade: 950 / 1050

N/mm2 (Prestressing)
Right-Hand Thread
Thread Pitch D/2
Corrosion Protection:
Double Corrosion
Protection
(cannot be Galvanized)
No Welding
Applications:
Ground Anchors
Post Tensioning
Pile Testing

GEWI-Steel Tie Bars

Rostok, Germany

GEWI-Steel Tie bar (mooring bollard)

GEWI Prop Hangers for

Suspension of Props

Stratford Box CTRL Phase 2

GEWI Tie Bars and Bracket Clamps

Birmingham New Street Station

Spandral Wall Ties (Galvanized GEWI)

Shay Lane Viaduct

DYWIDAG
Prestressing
Steel

3000t Pile Test

Canary Wharf

Dywidag Stressing and Testing Services

Ground Anchors

Soil Nails

Mini Piles

Rock Bolts

Soil Nail Testing Long and Short Method Fully Grouted Hollow Bar

DSI UK, Southam, Warwickshire

DSI UK, Southam - Strand Anchor Production