The objective of this study was to analyse the short-term tensile response of a geocomposite (a geotextile and a geogrid overlapped) and apply hyperbolic models to describe its load-strain tensile curves. Data from specimens submitted to mechanical damage, abrasion, and mechanical damaged followed by abrasion were analysed. Reduction factors were proposed by comparing data from damaged specimens with those from undamaged specimens. The experimental results were compared with those fitted by the constitutive models to validate the model. The constitutive models demonstrated good fitting capacity. For any mechanical condition, the model parameters could be estimated by relating the experimental tensile properties of the geocomposite with adjustment coefficients, which allowed for describing the tensile load-strain curves with good accuracy. The reduction factors for the specimens subjected to mechanical damage followed by abrasion were lower than the values which would be obtained if the damages were considered individually.
