Following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, the Army Corps of Engineers awarded Phylway Construction a contract to rebuild the Lake Pontchartrain levees in Louisiana. After extensive testing, high-performance turf reinforcement mat (HPTRM) products were approved, with Phylway using East Coast Erosion Control’s T-RECS product on the east side of the causeway. Photo: East Coast Erosion [...]
FIGURE 1a Peel strength profile sample showing specimen cutouts and test results for geocomposite across the roll width. All photographs and graphs courtesy of the author. Recent project experience that included continuous peel testing across the roll width of geocomposite materials has shed light on the issue of peel strength between geotextiles and [...]
FIGURE 1 Construction workers expose a Questar natural gas pipeline in Utah in preparation to place geofoam. The complexities of the built environment continually challenge the limits of engineering and construction. For infrastructure built-in areas with settlement-prone soils or other hazardous geological conditions, assembling a team of experts to plan for challenges is [...]
FIGURE 1 GBL installed on the side slope and suitably ballasted with UV-resistant sandbags and rope. The GBL is white due to the exposed nonwoven geotextile stitched to the underlying black woven geotextile. New applications of geosynthetics are being found that form from overlaps of existing functions, such as protection, separation, filtration and [...]
FIGURE 1 Installation of a GCL at a tailings pond in South America. All photographs, graphs and illustrationscourtesy of Minerals Technologies Inc. Geosynthetic clay liners (GCL) and polymer-modified geosynthetic clay liners (PMG) are gaining favor for use in industrial waste disposal and ore-processing applications (Athanassopoulos et al. 2015, Donovan et al. 2016a, Donovan [...]
Photos by 2017 ©Mark Skalny Photography. All rights reserved. With the geopolitical challenges and opportunities the specialty fabrics industry faces, we, as an association, need to make sure that we continue to educate our members and provide them with opportunities,” says Steve Ellington, president of Trivantage LLC, Glen Raven’s distribution and marketing services [...]
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