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 Wollongong
New South Wales
Port Kembla Berth 6 wharf construction
Steelcom have introduced the largest vibro-driver currently available
in Australia to the Port Kembla development project.
The PTC 120HD offers a massive eccentric moment of 120m.kg and
centrifugal force of 2550kN. Austral Construction, working for
the Georgiou Group Pty Ltd., is presently working in Port Kembla
Berth 6 where 154 tubes of a diameter of 1.5m with a wall thickness
of 16mm and 31m long are being driven in a hard compacted slag
ground. PTC 120HD unit is equipped with an Agriplex clamping head
covering single sheet pile applications and a Quadruplex clamping
head covering casings from 1.4m up to 3.4m and most box piles.
The project required a small vibro at start up.
The PTC 120HD then drove the tubes some 20m, prior to being set
with an impact hammer.
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