{"id":1042,"date":"2016-03-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/soilmecstg.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/2016\/03\/01\/notable-projects-soilmec-sm-5e-to-fix-iraqs-imperilled-mosul-dam\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T09:50:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T09:50:44","slug":"notable-projects-soilmec-sm-5e-to-fix-iraqs-imperilled-mosul-dam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.soilmec.com\/en\/notable-projects-soilmec-sm-5e-to-fix-iraqs-imperilled-mosul-dam\/","title":{"rendered":"Notable projects: Soilmec SM-5E to fix Iraq\u2019s imperilled Mosul dam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The micro drilling rig SM-5, on show in next Bauma exhibition, will be used by Trevi in its electrical version <strong>SM-5E<\/strong> for the interesting jobsite at Mosul Dam in Iraq. The intervention consists of a series of grout injections for the consolidation of the dam\u2019s bottom foundation, up to 130m deep, to improve the water resistance.<\/p>\n<p>The job site characteristics are very interesting, the SM-5E will work in a very <strong>confined space<\/strong>, located inside the 3-km long pre-existing tunnel only 2m high and 3m wide with constant and heavy leakage of water. Their need is to work with the lowest exhaust emission possible, with a small but powerful rig.<\/p>\n<p>The SM-5E is designed to reach<strong> flexibility in kinematic mechanism<\/strong>, minimum operating costs and high performance. In order to operate in buildings and tunneling applications Soilmec has developed an electric engine version, which has a rated power of 75 kW reducing the exhausted gas emissions. The wide range of movements are provided by two slew rings the first at the base machine allows rotations of +\/- 90\u00b0 which permit drilling over the side of the crawlers, while the second on mast gives +\/- 180\u00b0 to achieve radial drilling.<\/p>\n<p>In addition the rig is provided with ground stabilisers, 200mm telescopic zoom stroke and a modular mast on a counter-slide. The SM-5E can be radio-controlled reducing costs and time during operation, in either the drilling or in kinematic mechanisms phase.<\/p>\n<p>Once again the <strong>synergy<\/strong> between the experience of Trevi and Soilmec technology will be the key to success.<\/p>\n<p>In the photogallery, Soilmec microdrilling rigs in action around the world for the most challenging jobsites ever!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rig will work for Trevi in a confined space, inside a 3-km long tunnel with constant and heavy leakage of water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1043,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.soilmec.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/2511_n_SM-5E.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/www.soilmec.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/2511_n_SM-5E.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Matteo Sertori","author_link":"https:\/\/www.soilmec.com\/en\/author\/msertori\/"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soilmec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soilmec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soilmec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soilmec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soilmec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.soilmec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soilmec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soilmec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soilmec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soilmec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}