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Geotechnical

Following are a number of the multiple uses for ES&C in the sphere of geotechnology:

Waterfront structures

  • Allows economical modification to marine terminals
  • Allows increased dockside draft
  • Reduces lateral thrust/bending moments
  • Allows free drainage and control of in-place density

Landscape and elevated plaza fills

  • Minimizes dead loads
  • Free draining helps minimize hydrostatic potential
  • More planters and levels can be added
  • Easy to transport and install

Bulkheads and retaining walls

  • Reduces soil thrust and bending movements
  • Reduces forces against abutment and end slope
  • Allows free drainage
  • Improves embankment stability

Structural repairs and rehabilitation

  • Reduces dead load on existing structures
  • Easy transportation and installation increase productivity
  • Precise gradations allow for a uniform and controlled in-place density

Fill over poor soil and marshlands

  • 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

Insulating backfill and insulating road base

  • 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

Enveloping underground conduits and pipelines for insulation or in unstable soil

  • 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

Landfill leachate drainage systems

  • Inert; high chemical stability
  • Reduces dead loads on pipes
  • Allows free drainage of leachate/water
  • Acid insoluble

 

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