Disaster Prevention

22th January 2019

Engineering Group
GIKEN Group
GIKEN Products
Integrated System for Silent Piling Equipment
Principle of Silent Piling
Noise & Vibration
GRB Non-Staging Method
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Achievement WATERWorks WITH GRB SYSTEM
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SOLUTION TO DIFFICULT PILING ON SLOPE
Non-Staging Press-in Piling System (GRB System)
Difficult Conditions

Steep Hill
Gyro Piler

Tubular Pile
Residential

R/H=12.192m
Train
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Nankai Trough Earthquake
Predicted Time Occurrence : Very Near Future
of Height
Tsunami

Estimated Loss of Human Life: 320,000 People

Estimated Loss of Economy: 214 Trillion JPY

Levee Improvement for

Liquefaction Prevention
Designed by the
Committee of Kochi Coast
Earthquake Prevention
Kochi Coast １ Nino Coast 700m
2 Nii Coast 1.5km
Case Study
Collapsed Gravity Structure

Height 12m
Width 12m
Depth 8.5m
Weight 1000ton

Iwate Prefecture
 CONVENTIONAL GRAVITY FOUNDATIONS
Vulnerable Gravity Foundations

Concrete Covering

Embankment

Sand Layer
Breakwater ruined by
earthquake and tsunami

North East Japan 2011

Case Study
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Risk of the Existing Levee
Original Levee

Collapsed Levee
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Project Entity: Kochi River/Road Bureau, Shikoku District Development Office,
MLIT - Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
Purpose: Liquefaction Prevention by Double Sheet Pile Wall
Material: U Sheet Pile 600mm-wide Ⅳw type, L=15.0-16.5m, N=2,399

Kochi City
Niyodo-gawa River

Tosa City
Nino Coast
Levee Reinforcement
７００m

Tosa Bay
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Design of Preventive Countermeasure

Ground Condition
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Site Restrictions to Overcome

Clearance
3.0m
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Site Restrictions to Overcome
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Press-in Work

Piler Stage
Auger

Silent Piler
(Crush Mode)

Road
 Case Study
Project Entity: Kochi River/Road Bureau, Shikoku District Development Office,
MLIT - Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
Purpose: Liquefaction Prevention by Tubular Pile Wall and Sheet Pile Wall
Material: U Sheet Pile 600mm-wide Ⅲw, L=19.5-23.0m, Tubular Pile D1000mm

Kochi City
Niyodo-gawa River

Nino Coast
Tosa City

Tosa Bay

Nii Coast
Levee Reinforcement 1.5km

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Case Study
Design of Preventive Countermeasure (Two Types)

Double Sheet Pile Wall Single Tubular Pile Wall

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Reinforcement Requirements
Environmental by Gyropress Method
on Site
① Work without Noise & Vibration
② Work without Disturbance on Traffic Residential
③ Work without Huge Stock Yard Area

Limited Space for

Stock Yard
Daily Heavy
Traffic
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Reinforced Levee in Completion

Scour Protection

Road
Implant Structure vs Gravity Foundations
Disaster Prevention

Disaster Prevention for Nankai Trough Earthquake

Rapid Construction is available without disturbing active

traffics by GRB System
 Disaster Prevention
Great East Japan Earthquake りょういし
Restoration works Rouishi Port
（Kamaishi city Iwate Prefecture）
Case Study
 Disaster prevention

Landslide Prevention Hi-speed railway in Kyushu Region）

Higashisonogi district
in Nagasaki Pref.
Pile will be installed

GRB Platform

Skip Lock System

Disaster Prevention

Rapid restoration works for Road

Kagoshima Pref.
Case Study
Prospect Future Application Proctection to Slope Failure
Construction Revolution
GRB(Giken Reaction Base System)