CASE STUDY

Mirafi® PET – Basal Reinforcement over Soft Subgrade Soil

Port of Batangas, Batangas City, Philippines

Project Data
Project : AG & P Site Development Project
Client : Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific Co.
Contractor : FreyFil Corp.
Completion Year : 2013
Material : TenCate Mirafi® PET High Strength Reinforcement Geotextile, Miragrid® GX Geogrid

Overview soil. The multilayer geotextiles reinforced the

Atlantic Gulf & Pacific Company of Manila
(AG&P) is a global leader in infrastructure
modularization, construction and gas logistics
including LNG import and distribution. AG&P
would like to expand its operation at the
Batangas Port Area and has identified 100
hectares of land owned by the Philippine
shear stress of the fill material leading to an
increase of the foundation bearing capacity.
The multilayer high strength geotextiles act
as a separation and reinforcement to the soft
soil foundation which allows vertical loads to
be transferred to the geotextiles as tensile
stresses. Actual soil condition of the project site

Ports Authority as a potential project site.

The yard is specially designed to generate all

the heavy engineering and steel fabrication
activities of AG&P including construction of
offshore structures. Soft subgrade soil over
the area would result to significant
settlement of the embankment. Heavy
machineries and fabricated steels would also Miragridi® GX geogrid laid over Mirafi® PET geotextile Mirafi® PET reinforcement geotextiles laid directly over soft soil
affect the stability of the embankment over

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time and addressing this issue can be
challenging.

Solution

A number of design options were evaluated

but the use of Mirafi® PET high strength
reinforcement geotextiles together with
Miragrid® GX Geogrids were used as basal
reinforcement layer over the soft subgrade Filling of aggregate base layer over the multilayer reinforcement geotextiles

TenCate Mirafi® and Miragrid® is a registered trademark of TenCate Geosynthetics .

Further details of this application and products can be obtained by contacting your nearest TenCate Technical Support office. Unauthorized reproduction and distribution prohibited. This document is provided as
supporting service only. The information contained in this document is to the best of our knowledge true and correct. No warranty whatsoever is expressed or implied or given. Engineers wishing to apply this
information shall satisfy themselves on the validity of the input data relative to the applicable soil and engineering conditions and in doing so assume design liability.

TenCate Geosynthetics Asia Sdn. Bhd.

Unit 1803 West Avenue Suites
124 West Avenue, Barangay PHILAM
Quezon City Philippines 1104
Tel: +63 2 426 8834 Fax: +63 2 518 9028
Email: p.manila@tencategeo.com www.tencategeo.asia
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 CASE STUDY

Mirafi® PET – Solution for Basal Reinforcement

Port of Batangas, Batangas City, Philippines

Construction
Installation of the Mirafi® PET
reinforcement geotextiles was carried out
by laying the reinforcement geotextiles in
the traverse direction of the embankment.
Thereafter, a layer of Miragrid® GX
geogrids were laid directly over the
reinforcement geotextiles to interlock the
aggregate base course. The series of
Mirafi® PET and Miragrid® GX geogrids as
basal reinforcement layer provided
optimum embankment height while
achieving a greater stability over the soft
foundation.

The use of TenCate’s high strength

reinforcement geotextiles increased the
construction speed of the project. Before and after the application of TenCate’s high strength reinforcement geotextiles

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Overview of the soft soil basal reinforcement using a multilayer of Mirafi® PET high strength geotextiles and Miragrid® GX geogrids

TenCate Mirafi® and Miragrid® is a registered trademark of TenCate Geosynthetics .

Further details of this application and products can be obtained by contacting your nearest TenCate Technical Support office. Unauthorized reproduction and distribution prohibited. This document is provided as
supporting service only. The information contained in this document is to the best of our knowledge true and correct. No warranty whatsoever is expressed or implied or given. Engineers wishing to apply this
information shall satisfy themselves on the validity of the input data relative to the applicable soil and engineering conditions and in doing so assume design liability.

TenCate Geosynthetics Asia Sdn. Bhd.

Unit 1803 West Avenue Suites
124 West Avenue, Barangay PHILAM
Quezon City Philippines 1104
Tel: +63 2 426 8834 Fax: +63 2 518 9028
Email: p.manila@tencategeo.com www.tencategeo.asia
©2018 TenCate Geosynthetics Asia Sdn. Bhd. All Rights Reserved .