December 2022 Vol. 1

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INDUSTRY NEWS

Drone Video of Rapid CCX Canal Lining Installation on the Spercheios River, Greece
A 5000m² section of canal was lined at a rate of 150m² per hour by a crew of 5 people, over 4 days – CCX™ – Innovation on a Roll™, for lining Bulk Water Infrastructure.
https://concretecanvas.gr/new-blog/terna-sa-chooses-concrete-canvas

Tensar Develop New Multiaxial Integral Geogrid
https://www.freepatentsonline.com/20220379543.pdf

New System and Method for Vertically Installing a Geomembrane-lined Buried Wall
https://www.freepatentsonline.com/11519152.pdf

Tensar Develop New Horizontally Stabilized Geogrid with Increase Geotextile Interaction
https://www.freepatentsonline.com/11519150.pdf

Geotextile Geobags Protecting the Cook Islands Thanks to Smarty Grant from the Australian High Commission
https://www.cookislandsnews.com/internal/national/local/environment/using-nature-to-hold-it-all-together/

LyondellBasell Develop New LLDPE Geomembrane Resin with Improved Dimensional Stability
https://www.freepatentsonline.com/20220380584.pdf

TenCate Installs RoRo StretchPack® for its Geotextile Rolls
https://tentoma.com/tencate

Intan Sarana Teknik (IST) Showcase Major Dewatering Project with Tencate Geotube® Technology (VIDEO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfUG4j_FJsQ

Wollert Landfill Cell 10 uses Geosynthetic Clay Liner Technology from Global Synthetics
https://globalsynthetics.com.au/case-study/wollert-landfill-cell-10-uses-geosynthetic-clay-liner-technology/

FHWA Launches Geosynthetic Installation Notes Tracker Mobile Application
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Local Aid Support announces the official launch of the Geosynthetics Installation Notes Tracker Mobile Application. 
https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/clas/geosynthetics/

GEOMEMBRANES

Properties of HDPE Geomembrane Exhumed 20 Years After Installation in a Mine Reclamation Cover System
https://cloud.excelplas.com/s/Iulb4MYgo7vqIe2

Coupled Effects of UV Ageing and Temperature on the Diffusive Transport of Aqueous, Vapour and Gaseous Phase Organic Contaminants Through HDPE Geomembranes
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0266114422001327

Two-Dimensional Transport of Organic Contaminants Through Geomembrane with Strip Defects to the Underlying Soil Liner
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/nag.3474

Study on Leakage of Dams Considering Low-temperature Water Leakage and Composite Geomembrane Defects
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.1201/9781003330172-80/laboratory-experimental-study-leakage-dams-considering-low-temperature-water-leakage-composite-geomembrane-defects-ke-li-jie-ren-lei-zhang

Advanced Potential Field Analysis Surveys for Leakage Detection from Damaged Landfill Liners
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2022JB024747

Impact of Heat and Contaminants Transfer from Landfills to Permafrost Subgrade in Arctic Climate
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0165232X22002567

Study of the Environmental Stress Cracking Agent Assisted Cavitation in HDPE
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0032386122010308

PFAS Transport in Landfills: Occurrence, Transformation and Treatment
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0956053X22005141

GEOTEXTILES

Microstructure Characteristics of Nonwoven Geotextiles Using SEM and CT Methods
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0266114422001236

GEOTEXTILE TUBES

Model and Experimental Studies of the Seepage Failure of Damaged Geotextile at the Joint between Tubes in a Geotextile Tube Dam
https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/14/23/3934

Intan Sarana Teknik (IST) Showcase Major Dewatering Project with Tencate Geotube® Technology (VIDEO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfUG4j_FJsQ

Geotextile Geobags Protecting the Cook Islands Thanks to Smarty Grant from the Australian High Commission
https://www.cookislandsnews.com/internal/national/local/environment/using-nature-to-hold-it-all-together/

GCLs

Investigation of the Suitability of Activated and Non-activated Bentonites from the Imerys Mine (South Africa) for Geosynthetic Clay Liners
https://sajs.co.za/article/view/12566

GEOGRIDS

Physical Modelling of Geosynthetic Walls and Embankments
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.1201/9780203743362-4/physical-modelling-geosynthetic-walls-
embankments-bathurst-walters-esfehani-el-emam-blatz

Geosynthetics—Past Findings, Present Trends, and Future Prospects in Road Pavements
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-19-6774-0_3

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