Industrial Yard Expansion

Challenge: The Welspun storage yard was being expanded over 18 acres and houses metal coils weighing between 30 and 45 metric tons.  The laydown yard is surfaced with gravel and will be routinely trafficked by a Taylor “Big Red” TE925S reach stacker with a loaded weight of ~129 kips. Tensar provided a design solution for the project by incorporating geogrid stabilized layers to support the reach stacker loading, but verification was needed for the assumed design values in situ.  

Solution: Ingios addressed the project challenge being faced by the design team by reviewing the design information, performed engineering analysis to develop a project specific plan for verification of the design input parameters, and deploying COMP-Score® RT (CRT) enabled vibratory smooth drum roller. The CRT roller was calibrated on-site using APLT, to provide stress-dependent resilient modulus and permanent deformation (rutting) values. A professional engineering calibration record was produced demonstrating high statistical confidence (R² > 0.9) in the values reported by the CRT equipped roller. About 9 acres of the laydown yard was mapped in 5 hours to provide 100% coverage of the modulus and permanent deformation values.

Benefits: Ingios solutions benefitted the client by directly measuring the as-constructed conditions and providing verification that design requirements were achieved. The client benefited from the knowledge gained from this project in further optimizing future design processes and the associated quality assurance (QA) process recommendations.