ABSTRACT
A geotextile container is a large geotextile-encapsulated sand element containing 100 m3 to 800 m3 sand and is dropped through water from a split barge.
6.1 APPLICATION AREAS AND GENERAL EXPERIMENTAL DATA
Geotextile containers can be used in the following applications:
• To protect structures in water against scour holes by filling any scour holes with the containers;
• As core material of a breakwater that is covered with armour rock; • Raising the bed under the core of a breakwater; • As offshore sills for beach nourishment projects; • As offshore artificial reefs; • As offshore submerged dykes; • Quay structures made of geotextile containers, or pressure relief walls behind quays; • Construction of containment dams.
