Bonded composite open mesh structural textiles

A composite civil engineering structure comprising a mass of particulate material and at least one reinforcing element embedded therein, wherein said reinforcing element comprises at least one sheet of a bonded composite open mesh structural reinforcing textile, said reinforcing textile comprising:

• a plurality of spaced-apart bundles of weft yarns;
• a plurality of spaced-apart bundles of warp yarns, the warp yarn bundles intersecting with the weft yarn bundles at a plurality of junctions to define openings between adjacent weft and warp yarn bundles, the weft yarns and the warp yarns being interwoven at the junctions, each weft yarn being interwoven with the warp yarns independently of adjacent weft yarns, each warp yarn being interwoven with the weft yarns independently of adjacent warp yarns;
• a portion of the warp and weft yarns comprising load bearing yarns, the load bearing yarns being high tenacity, high modulus, low elongation yarns;
• bonding yarns including a fusible component woven into said reinforcing textile at said junctions, the intersecting warp and weft yarns in said junctions being encapsulated and bonded to each other by the melting of said fusible component of said bonding yarns;
• and
• portions of said mass of particulate material being below said reinforcing textile, portions of said mass of particulate material being above said reinforcing textile, and portions of said mass of particulate material being within said openings defined between adjacent weft and warp yarn bundles.