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Retaining Walls |
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Applications and Design Challenges Retaining Walls allow property owners to maximize their land use. However, building a concrete gravity or crib wall is often impractical because of their high construction cost. Geotextile Solutions and Benefits Geotextiles are used for a wide assortment of reinforcement applications, including embankments over soft soils, levees and retaining walls. Geotextiles make retaining walls financially feasible. In fact, a geotextile retaining wall can be built for less than half the cost of a conventional wall. Our woven geotextiles offer significant advantages over conventional methods, such as simplified installation and construction, and the ability to use on-site backfill material. Additionally, polypropylene geotextiles are approximately half the cost of polyester and polyethylene grids. A series of technical bulletins are available to aid an engineer in selecting a property value for use in the predominant design methods. |
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| Mirafi® geosynthetics are used as integral components in reinforced soil structures such as retaining walls, slopes and embankments. Mirafi® geogrids and high strength geotextiles provide tensile resistance to the soil, thus enhancing its shear strength characteristics. This enables walls, slopes and embankments to be constructed cost-effectively and quickly. The Mirafi® geosynthetics used for soil reinforcement have been designed to offer the ideal characteristics of high tensile strength, low elongation and low creep. | |