Geotextile Fabric for Road Construction: Uses & Benefits
Then there's the fact that building a road is a regrettable engineering problem demanding intimate knowledge of mechanics of materials and soil. The use of geosynthetics in civil engineering is one of the main developments of the last 20 years; it might be compared to that of computer-aided design a few years ago. Of these, geotextile fabrics are the basic ingredient that keeps road surfaces stable and ever-lasting in nature. These materials serve as barriers and reinforcement to prevent the development of typical structural failures such as potholes, cracking and depression. Mechanism of Separation and Stabilization The most common use in road work of geotextiles is separation. Traditionally constructed roads allow native soil (subgrade) to mix with aggregate base materials and degrade traffic surface, which is difficult and time-consuming to maintain. Such mixing renders the road base weak, causing it to fall apart very soon after construction. What they can do is separate these ...