Details about jacking and it's types

Jacking

Jacking is the process of creating an underpass below the railway track or road without any destruction.

Types of jacking

1. Box jacking
2. Arch jacking
3. Pipe Jacking

1. Box jacking

Box jacking as the tunneling process in which precast RCC box is pushed into the soul with the help of the hydraulic jack.

Jacking of large boxes technique has found while use in Europe and India around 13 years.

3. Pipe Jacking

It is a tunneling method for installing underground pipeline with minimum surface destruction primarily used too new sewer construction.

It is generally referred to us micro-tunneling.

Powerful hydraulic jack is used to push the spatially designed pipe through the ground and at the same time the excavation is taken the pipe.