Soil consolidation

Often soil are affected by cracks that can be caused by several factors such as:

  • the drying of the surface layers of the soil due to drougty season
  • differences in the structure of the soil.
  • Strong slopes or overloads.
  • Excess water due to atmospheric or infiltration phenomena.
  • Landslide phenomena.
  • Excavations.
  • Seismic events
  • Subsoil vibrations

The subsidence of the land generate the changes in its load-bearing capacity.

The terrain is characterized by a significant compressive strength, which depends on their intrinsic characteristics, but does not have tensile strength.

A soil consolidation action can have multiple goals, including:

  • Increase the carrying capacity of the soil.
  • Stabilize natural or artificial excavations and slopes.
  • Control deformations and accelerate consolidation.
  • Control the filtration motions.

Soil improvement has considerable advantages; first of all avoids differential subsidence preserving the stability of existing structures.

Furthermore it also allows the use of marginal areas (polluted sites and poorly-populated land) for the construction of new works and infrastructures and prevents the impact of natural hazards (earthquakes, landslides, floods, etc.) and anthropic (pollution, mining activities, etc.).

By inserting into the soils of elements with tensile strength which interact with the ground (SINMAT), you get a composite system with superior mechanical properties compared to those of the ground alone.

Consolidation Interventions.
They are done with soil remodelling, with laying of three-dimensional geomats (for surface stabilization), by the realization of supporting works and drainage and hydraulic regeneration works.

Anti-erosive coatings with synthetic materials (Three-dimensional geomats suitable for the containment of the plant soil by forming a soil armor) are always matched with surface water collection system (Drainage Geocomposites SINDRAIN)