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Charlie Street
Inside Sales
charlie.street@almita.com
Chris Boettcher
Business Development Manager
chris.boettcher@almita.com
Agenda
Safety Moment
Introduction of the Company
What is a Screw Pile?
Almitas Value Proposition
Engineering and Design
Fabrication
Installation Equipment
Various Applications
shown through a series of project pictures
Industries We Serve
Each Industry has a dedicated & qualified representative
Oil & Gas
Oilsands
Facilities and Plantsites
Oilfield Leases
Pipelines
Power Transmission and Distribution
Tower and Pole Base Foundations
Substations
Solar Panel & Wind Tower Foundations
Commercial Construction
Work-Camp & Office Trailer Structures
Camp and Light Industrial
Streetlight and Sign bases
HELIX (Diameter
and Thickness)
Helix Pitch
PILE LENGTH
Helix Spacing
45End Profile
ST6
ST7
ST9
ST13
ST15
Pile
Type
Ultimate Capacity
Estimated
4
3
1A
5
7
Shaft
kN
Helix(es)
kN
Total
kN
Shaft
kN
Helix(es)
kN
Total
kN
287
287
482
341
339
1799
1276
854
1746
1946
2086
1563
1336
2087
2285
360
430
280
500
400
1352
1110
844
1792
1800
1912
1540
1124
2292
2400
Prediction
Ratio
1.09
1.01
1.19
0.91
0.95
At Bureau of Reclamation
Structures Lab, in Denver, CO.
5 million pound load apparatus
Generally followed ICC-ES
AC358 for Helix testing
Helical (Screw )
Piles have been
incorporated into the
latest Edition of the
CFEM
-Almita was an advisor
Section 18.2.1.4
Qt Qshaft Qi (bearing)
where
Qt
Qshaft
Qi(bearing)
= ultimate uplift
capacity
= adhesion developed
along the steel shaft
= sum of the bearing
capacity of each
individual helix
Shaft
Diameter
Soil Surface
Shaft Friction
End Bearing
Capacity of
Individual
Helixes
where
QC
Qshaft
Soil Surface
Shaft Friction
Helix
Spacing
Cylindrical
Shearing
Resistance
Qt A1Cu N u Da Cu ( H 3 H1 )
where
Qt = ultimate uplift capacity of the multi-helix screw pile
H1 = depth to top helix
H3 = depth to bottom helix
Da = average helix diameter
Ps = perimeter of anchor shaft
A1 = area of top helix
Nu = uplift bearing capacity factor for cohesive soils
Cu = undrained shear strength of the clay
Ca = average cohesion of soil along the pipe shaft
Qt ' HAFq
Da ' ( H 23 H 21 ) Ku tan
Deep Helix
Ps
2
2
2
Qt ' HAFq * Da ' ( H 3 H 1 ) K u tan H eff ' Ku tan
2
2
where
A1
Fq
H1
Da
D1
H3
Ps
Torque Method
where
Kt =
T =
Kt =
Kt
Kt
=
=
Qt K t T
empirical factor
average installation torque
33 m-1 for all square shafts and round
shaft anchors less than 89 mm in
diameter
23 m-1 for 89 mm round shaft anchors
9.8 m-1 for anchors with 219 mm
diameter shafts
1D
Accelerometer
3D
Accelerometer
Compression Test
Tension Test
Lateral Tests
Introduction to Almitas
fabrication principles of
Screw Piles
Fabrication
WELDING
Robotic Welding
Duckbill
Conversely, blades that are not a true helix shape are often
pulled and not pressed into shape, creating a duckbill
appearance. Pulled plates do not conform to the True Helix
geometry requirements and their torque to capacity
relationship is not well documented.
Almitas
True Flight
Helix
90
Introduction to Almitas
equipment for Screw Pile
installation
List of Equipment
Installation Excavators
Agility and
Mobility in
restricted
access
locations
Batter
Angles
(from
vertical to
horizontal)
Extreme conditions!
-35C
Muskeg
+35C
Uneven Terrain
Residential Construction
Garage Slab & Grade Beam
Residential Construction
Decks
Residential Development
Feature Wall
Residential Development
Boardwalk
Residential Development
Retaining Wall
Residential Construction
Winter Installation
5 install crews;
~350 piles/day installed;
65 Semi-Truckloads of materials;
26,000 piles installed in less than 4
months;
Finished 17 days ahead of schedule.
Facility Work
Bullet Tank
Tank Farms
Pumpjacks
Client: StatoilHydro
Canada
Location: Leismer, AB
Conditions:
Deep areas of Muskeg
Over Clay Till, Bearing
depth @ 10m
324mm and
406mm pipes
used for these
50-90kN Lateral
Forces
Piperacks
Elevated Supports
Irathane pipeline,
Suncor, Fort McMurray, AB
1360 piles in three Phases
324mm x 7m pipe
c/w 25 x 610mm dia. Helix
Transmission Tower
Manitoba
Hydro Line
QUESTIONS?
Charlie Street
Inside Sales
Charlie.street@almita.com
Chris Boettcher