Playgrounds such as football and rugby pitches require quality drainage to keep the field in an optimal condition. The usage of geotextiles is a key component of such drainage systems. Thermally bonded geotextiles are most effective in this context as they secure the drainage system reliability and durability also enabling better conditions of the field operation.
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Thermally bonded geotextile properties
Use of thermally bonded geotextiles in drainage systems
Thermally bonded geotextile benefits
Thermally bonded geotextile properties
Thermally bonded geotextiles are made by heat bonding of fibers. As a result of the process, there comes a strong and stable material keeping its structure and ensuring high performance. The main properties of thermally bonded geotextiles include the following:
- High strength: Thanks to heat bonding, the geotextiles possess an enhanced tensile strength and resistance to mechanical damage. This is particularly important for sport fields exposed to considerable loads.
- High strength: Thanks to heat bonding, the geotextiles possess an enhanced tensile strength and resistance to mechanical damage. This is particularly important for sport fields exposed to considerable loads.
- Structure stability: Such geotextiles are resistant to deformation to let them keep their properties over a long period of time even when intensively operated.
- Resistance to aggressive impacts: Thermally bonded geotextiles are resistant to chemical impacts and biological factors that makes them ideal for use in various climate conditions and in contact with soils of various contents.
Use of thermally bonded geotextiles in drainage systems
Thermally bonded geotextiles are used in the playground drainage systems in several key directions:
- Thermally bonded geotextiles are used in the playground drainage systems in several key directions:
- Layer separation: Thermally bonded geotextiles are also used to separate various soil layers preventing their inter-mixing. This contributes to the pitch structure stabilization and enhancement of its drainage performance.
Thermally bonded geotextiles benefits
The usage of thermally bonded geotextiles in the playground drainage systems has a number of significant benefits:
- Durability: Thanks to high strength and resistance to external impacts, thermally bonded geotextiles ensure a long service life of a drainage system lowering the need of frequent repairs and service.
- Water evacuation effectiveness: Thanks to their filtering properties, geotextiles effectively cope with any surplus water evacuation ensuring quality conditions for games and training.
- Lower costs of operation: A reduced number of repairs and a long service life of the drainage system allow considerable operation cost cutting related to maintaining of the playground proper condition.
Examples of successful use
Thermally bonded geotextiles have proven their practical effectiveness in numerous sport facilities. For example, considerable improvement of the game conditions has been achieved thanks to fast water evacuation and prevention of puddles in football pitches with heat bonded geotextiles used in the drainage systems.
Thermally bonded geotextiles have proven their practical effectiveness in numerous sport facilities. For example, considerable improvement of the game conditions has been achieved thanks to fast water evacuation and prevention of puddles in football pitches with heat bonded geotextiles used in the drainage systems.
Thermally bonded geotextile is represented by Geospan BB in Geospan range. It was used in the construction of the football pitches in Rostov-upon-Don and Adygeya as a separating and draining layer to have enabled the pitch strengthening and an unrestricted water outflow.
Conclusions
Thermally bonded geotextiles play an important role in construction of effective and durable drainage systems for playgrounds. Their use allows considerable improvement of the pitch performance, increase in its load resistance and decrease in its service cost. Introduction of such materials is an essential step toward construction of reliable quality sport facilities meeting the high requirements of the modern standards.
