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Term of the Road Dictionary

geogrid

  • Language : PIARC Road Dictionary / English
  • Theme : Roads Materials Geosynthetics
  • Definition : Planar, polymeric structure consisting of a regular open network of integrally connected, tensile elements, which may be linked by extrusion, bonding, or interlooping or interlacing, whose openings are larger than the constituents [ISO 10318-1].

Geogitter

  • Language : PIARC Road Dictionary / German
  • Theme : Straßen Baustoffe Geosynthetische Produkte
  • Definition : Geosynthetik in Form eines regelmäßigen Netzwerks von vollständig verbundenen, gegen Dehung widerstandsfähigen Elementen mit Öffnungen, die für eine signifikante Verbindung mit dem umgebenden Material ausreichen.