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Geotechnical fill

Lightweight embankment over soft ground and backfill behind retaining walls, designing out settlement and lateral pressure.

Geotechnical fill

On soft ground, adding embankment means adding settlement. At a fifth of the weight of soil, expanded clay builds the same height for a fifth of the load.

Behind a retaining wall it does two things at once: less lateral pressure because it weighs less, and no pore water pressure because it drains freely. Both feed straight back into wall thickness and reinforcement.

Recommended grades

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Geotechnical & infrastructure

Leca Infra 10–30

Lightweight embankment fill at a fifth of the weight of soil.

Grain size
10–30 mm
Loose bulk density
250–300 kg/m³

Reference projects

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Completed projects

Lightweight embankment, Bandar Abbas port yard

Conventional fill replaced with expanded clay over soft marine clay, designing out long-term settlement.

Client
Ports & Maritime Organization
Location
Hormozgan, Iran
Year
2023
Volume supplied
42,000 m³

The yard sits on more than 12 m of soft marine clay. Calculations put consolidation settlement under a conventional embankment at over 400 mm across ten years.

Substituting the fill cut the load on the subgrade by about 75% and brought calculated settlement below 50 mm — with no preloading period and no delay to the construction programme.

Scope of supply

  • Supply of 42,000 m³ geotechnical aggregate
  • Bulk delivery scheduled to the placement programme

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