<p>Experience in reviewing, designing, performing field inspections, and installing of geomembrane boots and connections to structures has revealed a widely diverse practice of standards and approaches. The execution of these details is very much an art in ...

A punch test method has been developed to assess the performance of shotcrete and membranes. Each sample is sprayed onto a rock substrate containing a loading disc. The sample is rotated 180 degrees, placed onto the sample frame and constrained on all sides. ...

<p>Nine issues of importance to the use of geomembranes (GMs) and geosynthetic clay liners (GCLs) as part of composite liners in geoenvironmental applications are examined. These issues include the effect of: GCL-leachate compatibility on hydraulic conductivity; ...

This data report presents results from dynamic centrifuge tests IT04 and IT06 which modelled 1. A completed landfill with a single geomembrane-clay liner system with 45 side slope and 7 m deep waste and 2. A landfill cell, with a single geomembrane-clay liner ...

This paper provides a method for designing anchor benches and trenches used to secure geomembranes exposed to wind action. Only the cases where anchorage is provided by gravity (i.e. by the weight of the material in the bench or trench) are considered. Anchorage ...

This technical note presents an extension of earlier analytical methods published in 1995 by Giroud et al. for evaluating the uplift of geomembranes by wind. The extension incorporates: (i) the influence on wind uplift of the slope inclination of an exposed ...

<p>This paper describes torsional ring shear tests on interfaces comprised of high density polyethylene (HDPE) geomembranes nonwoven geotextiles and a drainage geocomposite. Four textured geomembranes with three different manufacturing techniques are utilized ...

The purpose of this paper is to present the performance of a PVC geomembrane during construction of a final cover system for a highly compressible sludge landfill.

<p>This paper reviews the applications for geosynthetics in waste containment. Consideration is given to geotextiles as filters and separators in otherwise conventional landfill design, the use of drainage mats as a replacement for conventional granular drainage ...