Snapshot

Geotextiles are smart textiles that consist of a stable network that retains its relative structure during handling, placement and long-term service. A Geotextile can be defined as “permeable geosynthetic comprised solely of textiles.”

Geotextiles are special fabrics made for use in 'geological' situations. They are rot-proof and permeable to water. They can be heavy duty or light duty, black, white or coloured. Available in woven and non-woven forms, they apply to a broad range of civil engineering construction, paving, drainage and other applications. These are extensively used with soil, rock, earth or any other geotechnical engineering-related material, as an integral part of human-made project, structure or system. These engineered Geotextiles perform three basic functions: separation, stabilization and filtration.

The principal functions performed by Geotextiles are confinement/separation, reinforcement, filtration and drainage, and protection. Application areas include civil engineering (roads and pavements, slope stabilization and embankment protection, tunnels, rail-track bed stabilization, ground stabilization and drainage, etc), marine engineering (Soil Erosion control and embankment protection, breakwaters) and environmental engineering (landfills and waste management). As geotextiles reduce the land required and disturbances to the local environment during the construction of infrastructure, they offer several economic and environmental advantages.

Geotextiles products include geotextiles, geogrids, geonets, geopipes, geocells, geomembranes, geocomposites, prefabricated vertical drains, geotubes etc. With the growing emphasis on biodegradable products, fibres like woven jute have also attracted significant interest as temporary stabilizing material in infrastructure applications.