Rock & Concrete Breaking

Force Vector, Inc.
PO Box 2519
Bridgeview, IL 60455

708-974-2586 Phone
708-974-9429 Fax

Blockage Prevention & Bin Clearing Service
For questions about the Blockage Prevention System using the Air-Slide and the Bin Clearing Service:
Phone: 708-974-9422
service@forcevectorinc.com

Concrete/ Granite Excavation and Blockage Clearing
For questions regarding Concrete/ Granite Excavation or Blockage Clearing Systems using the Cardox CO2 system:
Phone: 708-974-2586
service@forcevectorinc.com

Force Vector and Deca Vibrator are family owned businesses. We believe in continual performance improvement and immediate response to customer needs. The Force Vector team continues to search for tools, equipment and solutions that will keep your work moving forward.

We appreciate your interest in what we do and we look forward to working with you in the future!

Force Vector, Inc.
PO Box 2519
Bridgeview, IL 60455

708-974-2586 Phone
708-974-9429 Fax

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Rock & Concrete Breaking

The Cardox System is used extensively, especially in sensitive areas, e.g. general rock excavations, tunnelling, shaftsinking, underwater rock excavation and concrete breaking.

Rock Excavation

Use Cardox for mass excavation of rock for foundations and footings as well as landscape reclamation. Excavation near a busy road can be done safely and efficiently.

Tunnelling

Underground headings, tunnels and shaft sinking are no problem. Cardox can also be used for excavation of shafts adjacent to gas, electricity, and water mains.

Trenching

Cardox helps you work safely in areas where conventional explosives are prohibited such as city centers, residential and other sensitive areas. The Cardox System can also be used effectively in reservoir construction.

Underwater Excavation

Harbour deepening and widening, excavations of seabed for cable/pipeline installations, breaking concrete overspills, and deepening of riverbeds are handled without danger to marine life.

Shafting

In the center of the busy seaside town, Cardox is used to excavate a series of shafts for a sewage project only meters away from bustling shops, offices and pavements.

How Cardox Works:

Cardox instantaneously produces a powerful heaving force, using carbon dioxide which cracks and breaks the material along natural and/or induced fracture plains.

How Cardox Works

One or more holes are drilled in the material to be broken and the Cardox Tube(s) are inserted.

A connection is then made from the Tube(s) to a low tension activator, and on passing an impulse from this to the charged Tube(s), the low tension electric fuse initiates a rapid reaction in the energizer causing the liquid carbon dioxide in the Tube to change into gas, increasing its volume by 600 time in the process.

This instantaneous build-up in pressure reaches the yielding pressure of the rupture (shear) disc which bursts releasing a heaving mass of carbon dioxide which breaks the surrounding material.

The whole process takes less than one second.

By selecting the thickness of the rupture disc, the power of the Tube can be regulated to suit all conditions.

After recovery the Tube, the heater and rupture disc are replaced, the liquid carbon dioxide recharged and the Tube is ready to be used again.

Concrete Demolition

Cardox is used effectively for controlled breaking of reinforced and mass concrete, masonry and brickwork, controlled interior demolition, bridge demolition, trimming reinforced concrete piles and pile caps.