Buderus Manual on Trenchless Installation of Ductile Cast ... - Duktus
Buderus Manual on Trenchless Installation of Ductile Cast ... - Duktus
Buderus Manual on Trenchless Installation of Ductile Cast ... - Duktus
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The horiz<strong>on</strong>tal directi<strong>on</strong>al drilling technique<br />
5.2 A descripti<strong>on</strong> <strong>of</strong> the technique<br />
The steerable horiz<strong>on</strong>tal directi<strong>on</strong>al drilling technique (HDD), which will be referred<br />
to below simply as the directi<strong>on</strong>al drilling technique, is the most widely used trenchless<br />
technique for installing new pressure pipelines for gas and water supply. DVGW<br />
Arbeitsblatt GW 321 gives rules relating to requirements, quality assurance and testing<br />
for it to ensure that quality is properly assured.<br />
The sequence <strong>of</strong> operati<strong>on</strong>s in the directi<strong>on</strong>al drilling technique is generally divided into<br />
the following three successive steps:<br />
• a pilot bore<br />
• an upsized bore or bores<br />
• pulling-in<br />
5.2.1 The pilot bore<br />
This is the first step in producing a bore, running from the starting point to the arrival<br />
pit, into which the string <strong>of</strong> pipes can be pulled. The pilot bore is driven under steered<br />
c<strong>on</strong>trol by a drilling head at the tip <strong>of</strong> a drilling string. Emerging at high pressure from<br />
the drilling head as it drives is an aqueous suspensi<strong>on</strong> <strong>of</strong> bent<strong>on</strong>ite, the so-called drilling<br />
mud, which is pumped through the drilling string to the drilling head by the drilling<br />
machine. The drilling mud serves both to carry away the material which is cut away and<br />
to support the bore. There are different designs <strong>of</strong> drilling heads for all types <strong>of</strong> soil. In<br />
sandy soils, all that is generally needed for detaching and carrying away the cuttings are<br />
Fig. 5.6 Drilling head for the pilot bore