Fortrac® geogrids are manufactured from creep resistant, high-tenacity polyester yarns. Fortrac® is manufactured in a wide range of standard tensile strengths of between 20 kN/m and 400 kN/m. Ultimate strengths over 1000 kN/m can be supplied for special applications. Fortrac® geogrid rolls are normally supplied in widths of 3.70 and 5.00 m and roll lengths of 100-300 m so that overlapping can be reduced and material waste kept to a minimum.

Fortrac® exhibits considerably less deformation under permanent loading than many grids of equivalent nominal strength from other manufacturers. Fortrac® geogrids are manufactured from the new generation of polymers (aramide, polyvinyl alcohol) and open new perspectives for project-specific reinforcement. The versatility of Fortrac® products results from the experience gained in all our projects carried out to date. Projects are planned, designed and constructed as a result of close cooperation between HUESKER's Engineering Department, consulting engineers. construction firms, and project owners. Fortrac® geogrids have proved time and time again to be the best soil reinforcement available.

Typical applications:

• Structural layers supporting road, railway and airport construction
• Site access roads and transport routes
• Retaining walls and steepened slopes
• Slope stabilization
• Noise reduction barriers
• Rehabilitation of waste ground
• Earth embankments over piles
• Landfill
• Bridging of voids and sinkholes
  
  

Fortrac® is a registered trademark of HUESKER Synthetic GmbH.

• Transmits high tensile forces with low elongation
• High ultimate tensile strength
• Excellent long-term behavior due to low creep effects
• High resistance to soil micro-organisms and chemicals, UV radiation and mechanical damage
• Good grid/soil interaction through optimum sizing of the geogrid mesh to suit the maximum coarse particle size of the soil
• Ease of installation through low weight per unit area and flexible, adaptable structure
• Very wide range of available strengths, uniaxial and biaxial structures

Brochures

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Job Reports

Earthworks and foundations

PDF 17.0 m reinforced soil slope with FORTRAC®- MP geogrids, dead sea, Jordan ...download PDF-File (227 KB) view HTML

PDF Motorway A1 in Poland Pyrzowice − Piekary Śląskie − Maciejów ...download PDF-File (2.2 MB) view HTML

PDF Severn Valley Railway, Worcestershire - Fortrac® and Fortrac 3D® provide economic and rapid rehabilitation ...download PDF-File (154 KB) view HTML

PDF MSE Tunnel Entrances ...download PDF-File (2.9 MB) view HTML

PDF Fortrac Annapolis Landfill ...download PDF-File (621 KB) view HTML

PDF A 421 Bedford to M1 Junction 13 Piled Embankment using Fortrac M® ...download PDF-File (259 KB) view HTML

PDF Allan Block Segmental Retaining Wall with Fortrac® Geogrids ...download PDF-File (0.9 MB) view HTML

PDF Rockwood Block Segmental Retaining Wall with Fortrac® Geogrids ...download PDF-File (1.0 MB) view HTML

PDF Green walls reinforced with Fortrac geogrids to reduce the environmental impact on a stretch of the Cadagua motorway, Spain ...download PDF-File (230 KB) view HTML

PDF Fortrac geogrids allow road construction in impassable terrain, Austria ...download PDF-File (267 KB) view HTML

PDF Bridging system with high-modulus Fortrac for protection of railway platform against sinkholes, Spain ...download PDF-File (255 KB) view HTML

PDF Soil Reinforced Bridge Abutments reinforced with Fortrac® Geogrids manufactured by HUESKER Synthetic GmbH - Germany ...download PDF-File (505 KB) view HTML

PDF Fortrac® geogrids: Houses on the Hill Recycling, Sustainability and Regeneration provides Nuneaton with a monster embankment ...download PDF-File (222 KB) view HTML

PDF Design and Construction of Geotextile Encased Sand Columns Supportin Geogrid Reinforced Landscape Embankments, Houten, The Netherlands ...download PDF-File (843 KB) view HTML

PDF Sandbag formwork favoured over traditional shutter system for the construction of a curved road embankment ...download PDF-File (289 KB) view HTML

PDF HUESKER's low strain geogrid, Fortrac® M, provides reinforcement for an unconventional steep slope design ...download PDF-File (481 KB) view HTML

PDF HUESKER geosynthetics ensure firm foundation for valuable storage space at Hamburg's Rodewisch Harbour ...download PDF-File (604 KB) view HTML

PDF Fortrac® aramid geogrids protects A143 motorway western relief road at Halle against sinkholes ...download PDF-File (424 KB) view HTML

PDF Basal Reinforcement of Road Embankments in Dagenham, Essex, UK with Fortrac® R-Geogrids ...download PDF-File (395 KB) view HTML

PDF Green Walls, reinforced with Fortrac(r) Geogrid, for the National Highway in Spain ...download PDF-File (0.9 MB) view HTML

PDF ICE rail link Hamburg-Berlin, Germany; Paulinenaue section Reinforcement of rail embankment constructed on piles using Fortrac® geogrids ...download PDF-File (483 KB) view HTML

PDF Germany's first permanent reinforced soil bridge abutment constructed at Ilsenburg, using Fortrac®-geogrid ...download PDF-File (659 KB) view HTML

PDF A unique construction solution: the Gröbers high speed railway junction, located on an area with potential sinkholes ...download PDF-File (601 KB) view HTML

PDF L 193 - Widening of Faschinastraße, Damüls, Vorarlberg - Austria - using Fortrac®- geogrids ...download PDF-File (857 KB) view HTML

PDF Fortrac® - Slope structure supporting the construction of the McDonald's drive-in restaurant at Agadir ...download PDF-File (769 KB) view HTML

PDF Fortrac® - Geogrid-Reinforced Gravel Layer Bridges over Sink-Hole Federal Highway B 180 near Eisleben, Germany ...download PDF-File (594 KB) view HTML

PDF Fortrac® geogrids make it possible: 21 m high mechanically stabilized earth wall at the Nürburgring/Germany ...download PDF-File (495 KB) view HTML

PDF Fortrac® geogrids make it possible: 25 m high mechanically stabilized earth wall in Iserlohn/Germany ...download PDF-File (238 KB) view HTML

PDF Base Course Reinforcement with Fortrac® T - Geogrid "Herrenberg" Recycling Center ...download PDF-File (281 KB) view HTML

PDF German Railways, Extension Line 51, Uelzen-Stendal, Reinforced with Fortrac® geogrids ...download PDF-File (529 KB) view HTML

PDF Modern Subbase reinforcement with Fortrac® Geogrid successfully replaces old brushwood embankment Rostock New Market: Rostock Tramway ...download PDF-File (261 KB) view HTML

PDF Abutments with Fortrac® - Road Bridge at Ullerslev/Fünen ...download PDF-File (404 KB) view HTML