Designing advanced methods of corrosion protection and increasing the bearing capacity of pile foundations on saline clayey soils is a priority geotechnical task in Kazakhstan. The formation of a suffusion-resistant waterproof shell was achieved by silicatization of a borehole before concreting, by the installation of a mold into the borehole and the impregnation of a sodium silicate solution into the space between the mold and the soil under pressure. After coagulation of the silicate solution, the mold was removed and the formed shell was filled with corrosion-resistant concrete. Full-scale static pile load tests were conducted in the construction site “Retaining wall on Mount Koktobe” in Almaty. The bearing capacity of the piles with the protective silicate shell exceeded the bearing capacity of an ordinary pile by 2.5 times on average without wetting the site, and 3.2 times after prolonged wetting. The numerical model had a close relationship with the average experimental curve obtained when conducting six static pile load tests with the protective shell. A large economic effect of the developed piling technology with a protective shell was achieved, with a significant reduction in the cost of piling, equal to 27.85%.
A technology of building a pile foundation in saline soils with a protective and load-bearing shell based on bituminous rocks (kirs) is proposed that makes it possible to eliminate water permeability, to increase suffusion resistance and bearing capacity of the soil, as well as durability. The method of extracting natural bitumen from bituminous rocks (kirs) is based on the ability of kirs to self-grind or disintegrate into small parts at elevated temperatures in aqueous salt solutions. The proposed method excludes mechanical grinding and allows reducing the consumption of reagents and improving the quality of extracted natural bitumen. The compositions of the obtained mastics based on natural bitumen are not inferior in their properties to the known compositions of waterproofing cold mastics based on industrial bitumen at a lower cost.
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