Water Permeable Sand Bunker Kit with Geotextile Drainage
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Solution Overview
Problem
Golf courses face challenges in maintaining sand bunkers due to contamination and clogging of drainage systems by native soils, leading to increased maintenance costs and rainfall washouts, while existing solutions fail to provide effective water removal and edge retention.
Innovation Solution
A kit for building water permeable and water shuttling sand bunkers with a continuous edge, synthetic tufted surface, non-woven dual smooth surfaced geo-textile, and a drain assembly that prevents clogging, allowing water to flow through while maintaining the bunker edge and reducing contamination.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If traditional sand bunkers are used, then they can be easily constructed, but they suffer from contamination and clogging of drainage systems by native soils
Solution Approach 1:
The drainage system is segmented into multiple functional layers: a geotextile filter layer that separates sand from native soil, a drainage layer for water collection, and an edge retention structure. This segmentation allows each layer to perform its specific function while preventing soil contamination of the drainage system.
Solution Approach 2:
A geotextile filter material is introduced as an intermediary between the sand bunker and the native soil. This intermediary layer allows water to pass through while blocking native soil particles, preventing contamination and clogging of the drainage system while maintaining ease of construction.
2Device complexity
If conventional drainage systems are used, then they are simple to install, but they experience rainfall washouts and maintenance issues
Solution Approach 1:
The drainage system uses composite materials including geotextile filters, aggregate drainage layers, and edge retention structures. This composite approach combines the simplicity of traditional drainage with enhanced reliability through multi-material construction that prevents washouts and clogging while maintaining ease of installation.
3Ease of manufacture
If sand bunkers without edge retention structures are used, then construction is simpler, but they fail to maintain established bunker edges
Solution Approach 1:
Edge retention structures are installed preliminarily during the construction phase to prevent edge erosion before it occurs. This preliminary action maintains bunker edge stability throughout the facility's operation while adding minimal complexity to the construction process.
4Ease of manufacture
If high maintenance traditional bunkers are used, then they can be constructed with simple materials, but they require increased maintenance costs and frequent repairs
Solution Approach 1:
The geotextile filter layer provides self-service by automatically filtering out native soil particles that would otherwise clog the drainage system. This self-filtering mechanism reduces maintenance frequency and costs while using relatively simple materials that are easy to construct with.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The solution enables efficient water removal, reduces maintenance costs, prevents native soil contamination, and maintains bunker edges, ensuring consistent drainage and reduced rainfall washouts, while being user-friendly and easily installable.
Implementation Method 1
a non-woven dual smooth surfaced geo-textile configured for allowing water flow and water filtration while simultaneously excluding sand from entering the drain assembly
Implementation Method 2
water permeable and water shuttling sand bunker... allowing water to flow through while maintaining the bunker edge
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AI summary
A kit for building sand bunkers for accelerated water removal low maintenance multi-hole golfing facility. The sand bunkers are water permeable and water shuttling. Each kit creates a plurality of sand bunker each having a continuous bunker edge, a drain assembly, a synthetic tufted surface, a continuous integral edge overlapping polymer mesh, a non-woven dual smooth surfaced geo-textile, and a sand layer. Once built with the kit, the water in the sand bunker flows from the continuous bunker edge over the synthetic tufted surface, through the non-woven dual smooth surfaced geo-textile to the drain assembly while preventing the drain assembly from clogging, thereby maintaining an unclogged drain assembly for the water permeable and water shuttling sand bunker.