Fortrac® is a flexible, extremely high-strength geogrid, with a proven track record in soil reinforcement.

Fortrac® geogrids are manufactured from high-modulus, low-creep synthetic yarns and have a protective polymer coating. Fortrac® can be supplied in various mesh sizes and standard strengths between 20 kN/m and 150 kN/m. For special applications we can supply strengths over 1,000 kN/m. Fortrac® geogrids 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 to a minimum. Special sizes can also be supplied at short notice.

Fortrac® exhibits considerably lower deformation under permanent loading than many grids of equivalent nominal strength from other manufacturers. Fortrac® geogrids are also manufactured from the new generation of polymers (aramid, polyvinyl alcohol) and open new perspectives for project-specific reinforcement. The versatility of Fortrac® products results from the experience gained in all the projects carried out to date. Planned, designed and implemented as a result of close cooperation between our engineers and research centres, engineering design offices, construction companies, project promoters and operators, Fortrac® has proved time after time to be the best.

Typical applications: load-bearing layers in road, railway and airport construction access roads and transportation routes retaining walls and extra-steep earthwork slopes slope stabilisation noise reduction barriers reclamation of industrial wasteland earth embankments over piles landfill bridging of underground voids or sinkholes

Properties: high tensile force at low elongation high ultimate tensile strength excellent long-term behaviour due to low creep characteristics high resistance to soil micro-organisms and chemicals, UV radiation and mechanical damage good grid/soil interaction provided by selecting the geogrid mesh to accommodate the adjacent material problem-free installation due to low product weight and excellent flexibility even in extreme cold very wide range of tensile strengths in length and width

Information about areas of application:

Earthworks and foundations

Roads

Railways

Airports

Landfill

Industrial and contaminated land reclamation and ground restoration

Reports:

	Germany's first permanent reinforced soil bridge abutment constructed at Ilsenburg, using Fortrac®-geogrid		233 KB
	HUESKER geosynthetics ensure firm foundation for valuable storage space at Hamburg´s Rodewisch Harbour		212 KB
	Geogrid-Reinforced Gravel Layer Bridges Over Sink-Hole Federal Highway B 180 near Eisleben (Germany)		203 KB
	'Green Walls', reinforced with Fortrac® Geogrid, for the National Highway Nº1 (Spain)		879 KB
	Reinforcement of rail embankment constructed on piles using Fortrac® geogrids, ICE rail link Hamburg-Berlin (Germany)		518 KB
	Modern Subbase reinforcement with Fortrac®, Rostock New Market: Rostock Tramway (Germany)		573 KB
	Slope reinforced with Fortrac® geogrid: Widening of street Vorarlberg, L 193, Austria		172 KB
	Slope reinforced with Fortrac® geogrid supporting the construction of Mc Donalds at Agadir		164 KB
	Fortrac® R - Basal Reinforcement of Road Embankments - A13 - Dagenham, Essex, UK		295 KB
	Construction of a 25 m high green earth wall reinforced with Fortrac®: Iserlohn		299 KB
	Nürburgring Grand Prix Circuit: Construction of a 20 m high earth wall reinforced with Fortrac® geogrids		333 KB
	Railway embankment reinforced with Fortrac®: DB - extension line 51 Uelzen-Stendal		361 KB
	Base Reinforcement with Fortrac® T: Recycling Centre Herrenberg		373 KB
	Rockwood Block Segmental Retaining Wall with Fortrac® geogrids, Charlotte, NC		364 KB
	Allan Block Segmental Retaining Wall with Fortrac® geogrids, Charlotte, NC		363 KB
	Sinkhole overbridging with Fortrac® Aramid at Gröbers high speed railway junction		1163 KB

Press Release:

	HUESKER geosynthetics ensure firm foundation for harbour land reclamation scheme
	HUESKER provides value engineering at Welham - Fortrac® Geogrids Support New Bridge Approach Embankments
	Geosynthetics Provide Cost Effective Solution For Controlling Settlement Of Reinforced Piled Embankment On Bingley Relief Road
	40 years experience with geotextiles - HUESKER Synthetic
	Paulinenaue: ICE rail link Hamburg-Berlin soon to be 230 km/h
	Nürburgring - Grand Prix circuit made more attractive
	Fortrac® Geogrid makes it possible: Building a 25 m high grassed steep embankment
	Gröbers railway junction - subsoil protected by reinforced soil-composite structure
	German Railways, Extension Line 51, Uelzen-Stendal

Press Review:

	"Ground Engineering 9/2005"		876 KB
	"Geotechniek - Special Edition 9/2005"		611 KB
	"New Civil Engineer 01/2005"		422 KB
	"Construction Europe 12/2004 - 01/2005"		358 KB
	"World Highways, November/December 2004"		575 KB
	"Ground engineering, August 2004"		786 KB

Fortrac^® is a registered trademark of HUESKER Synthetic GmbH