Brace assembly for a geosynthetic wrapped system used to construct stabilized earth walls and slopes

A method for constructing an internally braced geosynthetic fabric layer, the method comprising:

• weaving a three-dimensional woven geotextile fabric material on a loom;
• while the geotextile fabric material is in the loom, inserting a bottom brace bar into a weave of a horizontal layer section of the geotextile fabric material and a standing brace bar into a weave of an upright fold of the geotextile fabric material;
• folding the geotextile fabric material so that the upright fold and the standing brace bar are in an angled orientation relative to the horizontal layer section;
• coupling the bottom brace bar to the standing brace bar while the upright fold and the standing brace bar are in the angled orientation;
• by inserting a first T-connector of the bottom brace bar into an upper portion of a T-slot connection formed in the standing brace bar and sliding the first T-connector down into a lower portion of the T-slot connection to prevent a first head of the first T-connector from passing through the upper portion of the T-slot connection;
• coupling a cross brace bar to the standing brace bar by inserting a second T-connector of the cross brace bar through a first I-slot connection formed in the standing brace bar and rotating the second T-connector to prevent a second head of the second T-connector from passing through the first connection;
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• coupling the cross brace bar to the bottom brace bar by inserting a third T-connector of the cross brace bar through a second I-slot connection formed in the bottom brace bar and rotating the third T-connector to prevent a third head of the third T-connector from passing through the second I-slot connection.
• wherein the standing brace bar has a first configuration, the bottom brace bar has a second configuration different from the first configuration, and the cross brace bar has a third configuration different from both the first configuration and the second configuration,
• wherein the first configuration coin rises the T-slot connection and the first I-slot connection,
• wherein the second configuration comprises the second I-slot connection and the first T-connector, and
• wherein the third configuration comprises the second T-connector and the third T-connector.