GRID STRUCTURE

Abstract: This present invention relates to grid structure (1) for reinforcement in road building which crossing strands (2, 4) of warp and woof. The openings of the grid are traversed by longitudinal-laminar belts (7a-7d) of this textile material leaving free passage openings (10).

Description: Grid Structure This invention relates lo a gnd structure ioi leinfoi cement in load building pursuant to the preamble of Claim 1 Such a gπd structure in the form ot a gnd fabnc is disclosed by US-PS 2,115,667 This gπd fabric is used foi the laminar reinforcement of road pavement For this puipose, the gnd fabric is laid on the foundation and covered with a bituminous asphalt coat The gπd consists of belts of fibei glass matenal and is theiefore relatively rigid flexurally The road surface is then to be applied to the foundation piepaied in this way, for example in the form of a coarse layei and a ne layer For the inlaid gnd fabnc not to be a hindrance when applying the load surface, it has to be held last in the bituminous asphalt coat However, there are a number of parameters in this that can be optimally observed only with difficulty If the temperature of the asphalt coat is too high with appropriate thickness of the coat, theie is a πsk that the gπd will sink in The prestress mheient in the glass fibeis can also lead to local lifting of the gπd fabric out of the asphalt bed If the temperature of the bituminous asphalt coat is too low, the gπd floats It may also happen that the retaining force of the asphalt coat on the gnd fabnc is too low In this case there is also a πsk that the gπd fabnc will protrude from the asphalt bed To prevent this, it is also disclosed by DE 195 43 991 how to combine an appropπate grid fabric with a nonwoven fabnc This forms a gπd fabric whose openings are filled fully with this nonwoven matenal 2 This can indeed substantially increase the retaining toices of the bituminous asphalt coat on the gπd fabric The penetration of the asphalt coat through the nonwoven layei , howevei, is vei y stiongly dependent on time and tempeiatuie For this leason theie is a risk of the ioimalion ol cavities between the asphalt coat and the road surface This can be avoided only by another operating step, by applying an additional asphalt coat on the laid fabπc-nonwoven fabnc composite This type of full-area composite also piovides the capability of a watei runoff banner, which is advantageous in case of ciacks in the load surface During the changeover from fteezmg to thawing peπods, the penetration ol watei into the load foundation is substantially hindered The watei consequently runs ofi only to the side It is the purpose of this invention to piovide a grid stiuctuie that keeps adhering until the load surface is applied, while avoiding additional operating steps and excluding defects in the asphalt coat The invention solves this problem by the features of Claim 1 The invention provides the benefit of a superproportional increasing of the letaimng foices foi the asphalt coat without loss of tensile strength of the interlaced strands of textile material This benefit is achieved by the fact that the invention integrates the basic concepts of the laminai bonding zone into the requirement of good penetration of the asphalt coat Because of the "only" partially permeable filling of the gπd fabnc, enough open places remain in the individual gπd openings through which the liquid bituminous asphalt coat can penetrate from the bottom of the gπd structure to the top of the grid structure The grid structure pursuant to the invention is thus enclosed form both sides by a previously applied layei of bituminous material immediately after being laid down, so that on the one hand 3 the pioblems of inadequate penetiation aie avoided, and at the same time the letaining forces on the gnd stiucture are incieased consideiably The thin textile matenal - from a micioscopic viewpoint - forms individual matenal fibeis that can be retained in the asphalt coat, so to speak, and this way can piovide foi a practically laminar composite by inteicalation into the asphalt coat The thin textile material should be of an absorbent natuie and the gnd openings should fill up leaving open points of passage somewhat uniformly distnbuted Matenals that are rough, fibrous, interlacing, and interleaving are advantageous Therefoie, special importance is ascnbed to the interleaving effect Each of the many individual fibeis of the textile matenal is inlaid in the asphalt coating by itself, and is bound on practically on all sides Since there is an intimate bond between the strands of the gnd structure and the longitudinal -laminar belts, which partly fill up the gπd openings, the retaining forces produced in this way are transferred to their full extent to the strength components of the gnd structure The strength components of the gnd structure are the individual strands that aie gnpped between the gnd openings The starting matenal for the longitudinal-laminar belts can be twisted and untwisted threads, fiber and/or staple fiber rovmgs The thickness of the longitudinal lammai belts should not exceed the thickness of the strands of the gπd if possible In this way, the gnd structure is reliably prevented from floating even with a relatively thin asphalt coat. To facilitate the penetration of the asphalt coat at the passage holes, the thickness of the belts should decrease slightly toward the edges of the belts In addition, the so-called capiUaiy effect can also be utilized in this way, since the fibei thickness at the edges can be somewhat less than in the centei of the laminai belt The microscopic cavity areas formed in this way at the edges iavoi the penetration of the asphalt coat If the edges of the belts are unraveled essentially niegulaily, a statistically favorable distπbution of retaining forces is pioduced inside the gnd openings If the edges of adjacent belts then merge into one anothei/are connected to one another with mutual contact, the belts in addition also contnbute to the stabilization of the gnd stiuctuie and nevertheless permit the "f looding" of the reinforcing matenal with the asphalt matenal It is immaterial in piinciple whether the longitudmal-lammai belts run in the waip direction oi in the woof direction of the grid stiucture of the grid fabnc When the belts n the woof direction, the belts can also connect to the warp threads of each strand, e g , they can be knitted, glass fiber/rovings composites, or interwoven This leads to a lattice structure with stable design and high strength without impainng the strength of the individual stiands This also applies to belts that run in the warp direction An embodiment in which the laminar fraction of the belts amounts to more than 50% based on the area of the gπd opening is advantageous Degrees of filling of about 10-90% meet the requirements of the invention The belts can be formed from thin parallel threads, thin πbbons, or a thin roving of fibers/staple fibers It is desirable according to the invention for the grid stiucture to be applied onto a polymei bitumen dispersion This should have a softening point of about 90 degrees Celsius 5 If this is a plastic with a polymei bitumen fi action, an intimate bond is pioduced between the coating and the bituminous asphalt coat on the load foundation fiom fusing togethei The polymei bitumen fraction supplies the ability to heat-seal the polymei bitumen dispersion and is piactically equivalent to a two-part composite between the road substructuie and the gnd structuie Suitable matenals for the warp, woof, and belts aie glass and polyestei, as well as any othei mateπals suitable for reinforcing gnds Since the fiactions of glass and polyestei, ioi example, can each be between 0 and 100% by weight, it is lecommended that the fractions of glass in each case be supplemented by the fraction by weight of polyestei to make 10 % The invention will be explained in detail with refeience to examples of embodiment The Figures show Fig 1 first example of embodiment of the invention, Fig 2 a detailed view of the region II of Fig 1, Fig 3 a detailed view of the aieas III of Fig 1, Fig 4 a detailed view of the aiea IV of Fig 1, and Fig 5 a detailed view of the aiea V of Fig 1 If not otherwise stated below, the following descπption applies to all of the Figures The Figures show a grid structure in the form of a gπd fabnc 1 as used for reinforcement in road building The gπd fabnc in this case consists of strands of waip threads 2 and woof threads 4 woven mtei woven with one another The strand of waip threads 2 consists of a number oi individual parallel waip threads 3a to 3h 6 The stiand of woof thieads 4 consists of a numbei of likewise parallel woof threads 5a to 5h The individual warp thieads and woof thieads aie stnctly paiallel to one anothej and foim a solid stiand bundle of little thickness The individual waip thieads and woof threads he flat beside one anothei and aie parallel dnectly against one anothei To give strength even now to the gπd fabric pioduced, an encu cling individual thread 6 is caπied along in the warp dnection 9 for each stiand of warp thieads 2, which mns fiom mtei section to intersection, fust over and then under the strand of warp thieads 2 and binds the paiticulai stiand of woof thieads to the stiand of warp threads 2 To do this, the enciichng individual thread 6 also alternates sides of the stiand of warp thieads fiom intersection to mtei section The waip threads and woof thieads each consist of filaments of textile material, foi example polyestei filaments and/or glass filaments, with each of the mateπals piesent between 0 and 100% by weight and each adds to the other of the two mateπals to make up 100% Several strands of warp threads 2 and strands of woof thieads 4 form a gπd fabnc that is aheady prestrengthened Every two adjacent strands of waip thieads 2 and two likewise adjacent strands of woof threads 4 enclose between them a gπd opening, that has a length of about 1 to 10 cm on a side It is crucial for each of the gπd openings to be filled up by a numbei of longitudinal-laminar belts of thin textile matenal while remaining partially permeable The longitudinal-laminai belts have the reference symbols 7a to 7d Depending on the actual size of the gnd opening, it may definitely also be sufficient to integrate only a single longitudinal-laminar belt into the gnd fabric However, it is important foi the filling matenal of the longitudinal-lammar belts to leave open so called passage openings 10 The passage openings 10 are open places, so to speak, in the gnd 7 fabnc 1 through which the previously applied asphalt coat can flow fiom the bottom to the top and the reverse Because the filling of the gπd openings is only partial, theie lemain a numbei oi sufficiently laige passage openings The asphalt coat can thus bind the longitudinal-laminai belts from the bottom, and after penetration, it can flood it fiom the top only shortly aftei the gπd fabric has been laid down on the asphalt coat Since this can happen essentially with no further action from the outside, the road pavement can be applied immediately aftei laying the grid structure m place If the thickness of the belts 7a to 7d is made practically as small as the thickness oi the warp thread strands 2 and woof thread strands 4, a defect-free binding of the grid fabnc in the ioad substructuie can be produced with very little consumption of bituminous asphalt oveilay The irregularly unraveled edges of the longitudinal-laminar belts 7a to 7d provide - statistically - a reliable guarantee of good distπbution of the retaining foices from the asphalt coat to the grid fabric Since it is sufficient for the invention to leave open only up to about 30% of the area of the gnd opening, the edges of adjacent belts can merge into one another with mutual contact The islands leit open between the belts constitute sufficiently large passage openings in the sense of partial permeability Fig. 2 in particular shows an intersection between the warp thread strand 2 and one of the belts 7a. Since the belt 7a in this case runs in the woof direction 8 of the gπd fabnc 1, it is possible to interweave the belts 7a to 7d with the warp threads 3a to 3h. In addition, it is shown that the belt 7a is interwoven with each individual waip thread 3a to 3h from each individual warp thread strands 2 8 Since each two adjacent waip thieads iun alternately on the top and the bottom of the belt 7a, a shift-proof binding of the bell 7a in the waip thiead stiand 2 thus occuis Fig 3 shows additionally a non-intei woven position of the waip thiead strand It can be seen that the waip thieads run practically paiallel and directly next to one anothei Since a coating of a polymei bitumen dispersion is piefei bly applied to the gπd fabnc thus foimed aftei the mtei weaving process, adequately high stiength is pioduced also at the positions in the waip thread stiand 2 and woof thread strand 4 not mtei woven with the longitudinal- laminai belts 7 As Fig 4 shows specifically, theie aie also regions in the woof thiead strand 4 in which the woof threads are only exactly parallel and adjacent to one anothei and excellent stiand strength is produced by the subsequently applied coating of polymer bitumen dispersion In addition, Fig 5 shows an intersection between waip thiead strand 2 and woof thiead stiand 4 Half of the woof thread strand 4 is laid completely over the warp thread strand 2 This half is held by the encircling individual thiead 6 that also runs in the waip dnection 9 Each of the individual threads of the othei half of the woof thread strand is interwoven with an individual thiead fiom the waip thiead strand by itself Since the encircling individual thiead 6 also alternates from the top to the bottom and at the same time from the πght to the left side of the point of intersection, adequate strength is also obtained for the non-interwoven part of the woof thread stiand at this intersection The longitudinal-laminar belts 7 can be made of thin parallel threads In the same way, thin πbbons or thin fiber/staple fiber rovings are practical The use of fiber/staple fiber rovings piovides the additional benefit of extensive unraveling of the belt edges, wheieby the binding strength of the gnd fabnc in the undeilaid asphalt coat is inci eased Grid structure in the present case means woven textiles, knitted fabncs, glass fibei/rovings composites, particulaily glass fibei/iovings composites whose crossing stiands 2, 4 aie intermeshed with one another at the points of intersection with no inteφenetration

Claims: 1 0 Claims 1 Gnd stiucture (1) for reinforcement in ioad building with intersecting stiands (2, 4) of textile matenal, each consisting of individual filaments (3a-h, 5a-h) that lie flat stiands next to one anothei, characterized by the fact that the openings in the grid are traversed by longitudinal-lammai belts (7a 7d) of thin textile matenal leaving ftee passage openings (10) 2 Grid structure pursuant to Claim 1, characterized by the fact that the thickness of the belts (7a-7d) is no greatei than the thickness of the strands (2, 4) and pietei ably decieases towards the edges of each belt (7a-7d) 3 Gπd structure pursuant to Claim 1 oi 2, chaiacteπzed by the fact that the edges of the belts (7a-7d) are unraveled megularly 4 Gπd structure pursuant to Claim 3, characteπzed by the fact that edges of adjacent belts (7a, 7b, 7b, 7c, 7c, 7d) merge into one anothei with mutual contact 5 Gπd structure pursuant to one of the Claims 1 to 4, charactenzed by the fact that the belts (7a-7d) run in the woof direction (8) and/or in the waφ direction (9) of the gπd fabnc (1) 6. Gnd structuie pursuant to Claim 5, chaiacteπzed by the fact that belts (7a-7d) are connected to the waφ threads (3a-h) 7. Gπd structure pursuant to Claim 6, characterized by the fact that the belts (7a-7d) are connected to each individual waφ thread (3a, 3b, 3c, 3d, 3e, 3f, 3g, 3h) of each individual waφ thread strand (2) 1 1 Grid structuie puisuant to one of the Claims 1 to 7, chaiacteπzed by the fact that the area fraction of the belts is moie than 10% but less than 90% based on the aiea of the gπd openings Gπd stiucture pursuant to one of the Claims 1 to 8, characterized by the fact that the belts (7a-7d) are made up of thin, parallel threads Gnd stiuctuie pursuant to one of the Claims 1 to 8, charactenzed by the fact that the bells (7a-7d) are made up of thin ribbons Gπd structure pursuant to one of the Claims 1 to 8, chaiacteπzed by the fact that the belts (7a-7d) aie each made up of a thin fibei/staple fibei lovmg Grid structure pursuant to one of the Claims 1 to 1 1 , characteπzed by the fact that after pioducing the gπd structuie, a coat of polymei bitumen dispersion is applied Gπd structure pursuant to Claim 12, characteπzed by the fact that the softening point of the polymer bitumen dispersion is below the softening point of the bituminous asphalt coat (ca 180 degrees Celsius) Gnd structure pursuant to one of the Claims 1 to 13, characteπzed by the fact that the mateπals of the waφ threads, woof threads, and belts contain fractions by weight of up to 100% of a matenal, for example glass, made up to 100% in each case by the fraction by weight of another matenal, for example polyester Gπd structure pursuant to one of the Claims 1 to 14, characteπzed by the fact that it [is] a gnd-hke woven textile or a knitted fabnc or a glass fiber/rovings composite, especially a glass fiber/rovings composite whose intersecting strands (2, 4) are intermeshed with one another at the points of intersection without inteφenetration

Inventors: BAUMGART CHRISTOPH, KLOMPMAKER JOERG, BAUMGART, CHRISTOPH, KLOMPMAKER, JOERG
Applicants: BAUMGART CHRISTOPH, KLOMPMAKER JOERG, LUECKENHAUS TECH TEXTILIEN GMB, BAUMGART, CHRISTOPH, KLOMPMAKER, JOERG, LUECKENHAUS TECHNISCHE TEXTILIEN GMBH & CO.
Application year: 1999
Main classification: E01C11
IPC codes: E01C11, E02D29