Following are a number of the multiple uses for ES&C in the sphere of geotechnology:
- Allows economical modification to marine terminals
- Allows increased dockside draft
- Reduces lateral thrust/bending moments
- Allows free drainage and control of in-place density
- Minimizes dead loads
- Free draining helps minimize hydrostatic potential
- More planters and levels can be added
- Easy to transport and install
- Reduces soil thrust and bending movements
- Reduces forces against abutment and end slope
- Allows free drainage
- Improves embankment stability
- Reduces dead load on existing structures
- Easy transportation and installation increase productivity
- Precise gradations allow for a uniform and controlled in-place density
- Allows unusable land to be reclaimed and developed
- Design elevations are achieved with low fill weight
- Low fill weight increases slope stability
- Controlled gradations assure uniform and consistent in-place density
- Long-term settlement is controlled and reduced
- Controlled fill allows uniform load distribution
- Substantially reduces ground movement-induced stresses on buried pipes and structures
- Counteracts frost heaving, resists freeze/thaw cycles and highly insulative
- Inert, non-corrosive and stable
- Reduces dead loads on buried structures
- Allows construction of higher fills
- Minimizes hydrostatic potential
- Provides thermal insulation to underground facilities
- Economic alternative to flowable fills
- Inert; high chemical stability
- Reduces dead loads on pipes
- Allows free drainage of leachate/water
- Acid insoluble
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