January 2019 Vol. 3

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SIPLAST TERANAP™ 531 TP Bituminous Geomembrane Selected for Rosebery Mine in Tasmania, Australia
https://www.geofabrics.co/news/rosebery-tailings-dam

Advancing the Use of Geosynthetic Clay Liners as Barriers [PDF]
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329544978_Advancing_the_use_of_geosynthetic_clay_liners_as_barriers

US-China Jointly Develop Graphene-Enhanced HDPE Geomembranes with Exceptional Mechanical Properties (Breaking News)
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsnano.8b04734

Novel Strengthening of HDPE with Carbon Nanotubes [PDF]
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20550324.2018.1558798?scroll=top&needAccess=true

Technical Paper: Validation of Geocomposite Electrokinetic Stabilisation of M5 Motoroway (Breaking News)
https://www.geplus.co.uk/technical-papers/technical-paper-validation-of-electrokinetic-stabilisation-of-m5-junction-7/10038579.article

Hunter Water (NSW) Installing 17 Mega Geotextile Sand Containers to Construct A$2.24 million Sea Wall
https://www.dredgingtoday.com/2019/01/14/work-starts-on-stocktons-new-seawall/

Environmentally Friendly Shore Protection Using Geosynthetic Tubes
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8604794

Design and Reality of Landfill Anti-seepage System Considering Chemical Erosion
https://www.cetjournal.it/index.php/cet/article/view/CET1871113

Calculating Strain and Stress in Geomembranes at Gravel Indentations
https://qspace.library.queensu.ca/handle/1974/25915

Liner Company Announces 2019 Scholarship Program to Promote Science and Engineering
https://www.prweb.com/releases/western_environmental_liner_announces_2019_scholarship_program_to_promote_stem_education/
prweb15994633.htm

Landfill Expansion May Put Drinking Water at Risk
http://www.trussvilletribune.com/2019/01/15/birmingham-landfill-expansion-may-put-trussville-drinking-water-at-risk-cause-flooding-downtown/

Performance of Geosynthetic-reinforced Flexible Pavements in Full-Scale Field Trials
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0266114418301262

Discrete Element Modelling of Geogrids with Square and Triangular Apertures
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rui_Rui4/publication/…/Discrete-element-modelling-of-geogrids-with-square-and-triangular-apertures.pdf

Quantification of Geometrical and Morphological Characteristics of Desiccation Crack and Shrinkage Behaviour of Composite Clay Liner
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Debbrata_Datta2/publication/…/Quantification-of-Geometrical-and-Morphological-Characteristics-of-Desiccation-Crack-and-Shrinkage-Behavior-of-Composite-Clay-Liner.pdf

Numerical Investigation of Wraparound Geotextile Reinforcement Technique for Strengthening Foundation Soil
https://ascelibrary.org/doi/abs/10.1061/%28ASCE%29GM.1943-5622.0001361

Seismic Stability of 3D Soil Slope Reinforced by Geosynthetics
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0267726118303063

New African Geomembrane Company Launches Range of PVC Liners
https://www.africapvc.com/


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