Supporting fabric for bearing bulk material and a method of building a road embankment, a dam, a concrete structure or some other body formed of bulk material

Abstract From the Canadian patent

The invention relates to supporting fabric such as a woven, fabric, a knitted fabric a web or a deposition made up of practically rightangularly crossing, substantially synthetic yarns and having a width of at least 30 cm, preferably more than 1 m and a length of at least 3 m, more particularly for geotextile uses, such as for bearing one or more layers of sand gravel, stones, clay, loam, asphalt, mortar or like bulk or other material, the fabric having a tensile strength in one or more directions of at least 50 kN/m. The yarns of the fabric are entirely or partly in the form of tapes or threads the material, of each of the tapes or threads chiefly being formed of a matrix of polypropylene …