Improvement to CSM seismic barrier construction

切割机土壤搅拌技术(CSM)是在欧洲刚刚开发出来的一种新技术，它在地基改良方面有着巨大的潜力，其目标是为建设和开发准备困难或边缘的场地。它特别适用于软弱或可压缩的地基，或地震中容易液化的地基。该技术涉及在地面中搅拌土壤和水泥，以产生嵌入的面板，将地面中的问题区域隔离开来，从而提高开发的适宜性。CSM工具上的创新控制系统使水泥能够在地面以下的深处更精确地搅拌。对于现场土壤。搅拌过程的更高精度产生了显著的节省水泥使用成本的潜力。为了实现这些潜在的节省，随着时间的推移，需要决策支持工具来优化水泥含量、强度和最终得到的水泥混合料的硬度。

The novel technique of Cutter Soil Mixing (CSM), just developed in Europe, has tremendous potential in applications for ground improvement where the objective is to prepare difficult or marginal sites for construction and development.  It is particularly suitable for weak or compressible ground, or ground that is susceptible to liquefaction in an earthquake.  The technique involves mixing soil and cement in the ground to create embedded panels that 'isolate' problematic regions in the ground, and thereby improve the suitability for development.  Innovative control systems on the CSM tool enable a more precise mixing of cement, at depth below the ground surface, with the on-site soils.  Greater precision on the mixing process yields a significant potential to save costs on usage of cement.  In order to realise these potential savings, a decision-support tool is needed for optimization of cement content, strength and stiffness of the resulting soil-cement mix over time.