PRESENTATION ON HIGH

SPEED SHAFT SINKING

SUBMITTED BY
MANISH KUMAR
ISM – DHANBAD
 OBJECTIVE

 To achieve high sinking rate in deep

underground excavations
 Drilling upto higher depth coping with
different hydrogeological conditions
MECHANISED SINKING USING
DRILL RIG
A shaft drilling rig comprising

(a) a rig head having means whereby it may be attached to

a cable so as to be raised and lowered within a shaft being
sunk;

(b) a central column depending from the rig head;

(c) a base member at the lower end of the column;

(d) a rig support comprising:

(d)(i) retractable arms, each having an inner and an outer

end, the said inner ends being pivottally carried on the said
base member to move from a retracted storage position to
an extended operative carrying position; and

(d)(ii) rig supporting feet carried respectively by the said

outer ends of the said retractable arms;
(e) a plurality of booms, each boom having an upper end and an outer
end, each said boom

(e)(i) being carried at its upper end by the central column near the rig
head to pivot relative to the column, and

(e)(ii) having an extendable section located between the said upper and
outer ends and being arranged to extend the length thereof;

(f) a feed holder carried at the outer end of each boom, the feed holder
having means to support a beam to carry a rock drill; and

(g) a plurality of support members respectively associated with the

booms, each such support member having an upper and and a lower end,
each such support member

(g)(i) being carried at its lower end by the central column near the base
member to pivot relative to the column and

(g)(ii) at its upper end pivotally engaging its associated boom at a pivot
location between said extendable section and the said outer end of the
boom.
Drill rig
 ATLAS COPCO DRILL RIG’S HIGH SPEED
SHAFT DRIVE (case study)

An Atlas Copco shaft-sinking rig, equipped with six booms

and COP A15 pneumatic rock drills, has driven an 800 m-deep
Shaft down to the planned route of the St. Gotthard Base Tunnel. The
rig was also used to provide the cover drilling, a method of keeping
the water away from the shaft.

And an advance rate of 3-3.5 metres/day was achieved with

the rig.
As a seven-day week was being worked on the project,
this amounted to some 100 metres/month when the rig
was working continually.
 After solving the start-up problems, this high performance
was maintained throughout the rest of the project, which
including four months of running-in time, preliminary work,
rock reinforcement and final finishing-off work – spans
a period of 18 months.

The completed Sedrun shaft, nicknamed

"the multi-function site", will be used for ventilation
and maintenance.

Installed at the site was a hoist, which will later be rebuilt

to suit tunnelling requirements. It lifts 10 tonne loads of rock
in buckets at a speed of 11 metres/ second – or
700 metres/minute.
 In order to maintain the high rate of progress, forming of
the concrete lining was done in parallel with the general
shaft sinking operation. Several other operations were also
carried out in the shaft simultaneously.

A platform provided five working decks.

The lower Deck 5 was for managing activities
at the bottom of the shaft; the concrete forms
were mounted from Deck 3 for final lining in
six-metre stages; concrete was received through
long pipes on Deck 2 to be remixed and formed;
and all supply lines were assembled on Deck 1.