What is Load Support?
Strong support is required at the subgrade of heavy load bearing surfaces such paved and unpaved access roads, container yards, load transfer platforms, crane pads etc. to prevent failures, control differential settlements, and better distribute loads over a wider area.
Applications of Load Support
Site challenges such as weak soils coupled with heavy loads often lead to uneven settlements and localised subgrade failures when constructed upon. These subgrades require additional stabilization in order to build high performance surfaces. These differential settlements and failures can be minimized using StrataWeb® and SGB Grid products that reduce the loading pressure by spreading the force uniformly over a wider area. StrataWeb® further enables the sustainable reuse of site won materials such as sands, ash, slag and other industrial by-products and reduces the requirement of expensive aggregates making it not only cost effective but highly environment friendly.
StrataWeb® and SGB grids can be installed in the base and / or sub-base layers for pavements to provide high performance and minimal costs.
Gallery of Load Support Projects
Load Support Projects Showcased with Geocell and SGB Geogrid
Related Products for Seamless Load Support Integration
Products used in Load Support
Strata has the ideal basket of products coupled with its experience to provide this system. When construction occurs on soft or unstable ground there is always the possibility for uneven settlements. Strata’s system spreads the applied loads across a wider base. StrataGrid™ SGB Grids and StrataWeb® can be used in all types of surfaces for stabilisation and reinforcement, especially under very heavy loads.
| SGB Grid
SGB grid is a high-performance pavement reinforcement geogrid, engineered specifically for improving the modulus values of the pavement base layers.
| StrataWeb® (Geocell)
One of nature’s strongest structural shapes is the three dimensional honeycomb. StrataWeb® (geocell) applies this shape to soil reinforcement to solve some of today’s most difficult civil engineering problems.
Success stories of Load Support
Projects that have used StrataWeb® Geocell and SGB Geogrid for Load support
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