Patent ID: 11866901
Assignee: TENSAR INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
Field: Civil engineering (Other fields)
Classification: CPC E | IPC E

Claim 12:
13. A method for improving geotechnical environments with a horizontal multilayer mechanically stabilizing geogrid, comprising:
applying to a geotechnical environment a geogrid with a plurality of strong axes comprised of primary nodes, patterned discontinuities of non-continuous ribs that terminate at secondary nodes, a top and bottom surface layer comprising a layer of polymeric material, and a compressible cellular layer with heightened aspect ratio, and wherein the aspect ratio of the horizontal mechanically stabilizing geogrid is larger at the primary nodes than at the secondary nodes, and wherein applying places the geogrid into aggregate and soil;
reducing lateral movement of the aggregate and soil within the geotechnical environment through the aggregate interacting with the patterned discontinuities of the non-continuous ribs that terminate at the secondary nodes and the plurality of strong axes comprised of the primary nodes; and
increasing, by the geogrid, lifetime cycles of trafficking over the geotechnical environment.