Nonwovens Industry Magazine

The size of the domestic technical textiles market is expercted to grow 11% per year, reaching Rs.66,414 crore by 2012, ehich is about Rs.37,115 crore at the moment, Thira Maran, indian textiles Minister, said this at the curtain raiser ceremony of "Technotex-2009, held in New Delhi in August.

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TechFab India is participating in Textile Days India which will be held from 10 - 12 Oct. 2009, at the Bombay Exhibition Centre, Mumbai. It features two outstanding events –

• Heimtextil India - International trade fair for home textiles & accessories
• Techtextil India - International trade fair for technical textiles & non-wovens

This paper describes the salient features of a project wherein geogrid reinforced soil walls with a welded wire mesh supported wrapped face were used as closure and return walls for the approaches to a flyover. The walls had a height of 15.0 m for one approach and 10.0 m for the other. Indigenously manufactured knitted and PVC coated polyester geogrids were used as the soil reinforcement. A welded wire mesh supported geogrid wrapped face with random rubble backing with an inward batter of 5º was used. A relatively fine-grained Yamuna sand was the fill material. Some of the challenging aspects considered in the design like large heights, acute angle corners, and weak foundation soils are discussed.

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