Geotubes and Geocontainers
Geotubes and Geocontainers are structures in which soil or sand is encapsulated by a woven geotextile with high tensile strengthproperties.
There are many applications in which geotubes are filled with pumped sand in order to form groins extending into the ocean or along its shores, in order to protect coastlines as well as for the protection of riverbanks.
A further application of the use of woven geotextiles, is in the dehydration and subsequent disposal of wet waste materials, in which the material is encapsulated in a high strength woven geotextile which has been sown into a geocontainer. The geotextile serves as a filter in order to permit water to flow out, thus draining the geocontainer before it is disposed of in a sanitary landfill.
The woven geotextile, as well as the seaming required to make these structures, have to be of a very high tensile strength, in order to contain the materials which are pumped into these structures.