In a joint effort HUESKER Synthetic, INORA and NEOSTRAIN have documented the outstanding technical solution for sinkhole reinforcement as well as the detection and monitoring of deformations of the new constructed motorway A1 near Katowice, Poland. The solution was presented in the paper Fully automated system for monitoring of deformations and settlements of embankment body of motorway A1 written by Łukasz Bednarski & Rafał Sieńko (NEOSTRAIN, Poland), Janusz Sobolewski (HUESKER Synthetic, Germany) and Jarosław Ajdukiewicz (INORA, Poland).
The technical paper was presented at the 16th Polish Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering held in Breslau, Poland in September 2012. The technical Committee of the Conference thanked the authors and awarded the paper for its high level of innovation and quality.
The motorway A1 goes through areas which are highly affected by historical and active mining processes. These mining activities are expected to create downcasts and openings such as sinkholes forming under the motorway. A highly sophisticated system of high strength Fortrac® reinforcement geogrids in combination with a newly developed electronic monitoring system was installed to provide a safe construction of the motorway in this complex geotechnical situation.
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