March 2022 Vol. 5

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INDUSTRY NEWS

BontexGeo Acquires Spanish Geotextile Fabrics Producer
https://www.nonwovens-industry.com/contents/view_breaking-news/2022-03-23/bontexgeo-acquires-spanish-geotextile-fabrics-producer/

Renewing a Potable Water Reservoir with CSPE and Advanced Tensioned Floating Cover Technology
https://cloud.excelplas.com/s/QNwicmJdbtD35FD#pdfviewer

An Effective Method to “See” Inside a Capped Landfill and Through the Geomembrane
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0956053X22001349

Tektoseal® Active – Large-Area Geocomposite Pollutant Barriers for Many Applications – VIDEO
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RmpHs9xW1Fw

Landfill Leachate Pond Liner Suffers Animal Damage
https://www.paysonroundup.com/government/gila_county/supervisors-accept-146-380-bid-on-landfill-pond-repair/article_ee124993-c9d2-55a1-bbba-1f47902a7595.html

Tensar Release New Video: Design and Build with Confidence
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a8Km1vv7lFA

NSW Government Publishes Risk Assessment Flowchart for Tailings Dams
https://www.resourcesregulator.nsw.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/tailings-bowtie-2-post-closure-failure.pdf

TenCate Makes Top 10 of Dutch Companies in Mining
http://cocreatesa.nl/news/meet-the-10-dutch-players-in-mining/

GEOMEMBRANES

Durability and Degradation of PVC-P Membranes—Example of Dynamic Fatigue Testing
https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4360/14/7/1312/pdf

Study on Leakage Through Geomembrane Defects Overlain by Saturated Tailings and Underlain by Highly Permeable Subgrade
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0266114422000383

GEOTEXTILE TUBE DEWATERING

Consolidation of Sludge Dewatered in Geotextile Tubes under Combined Fill and Vacuum Preloading
https://ascelibrary.org/doi/abs/10.1061/(ASCE)GT.1943-5606.0002791

Coastway Geotube® Strengthening Project
http://cocreatesa.nl/news/meet-the-10-dutch-players-in-mining/

GCLs

Pore-Scale Modelling of Polymer Clogging in Bentonite-Polymer Composite Geosynthetic Clay Liners
https://ascelibrary.org/doi/abs/10.1061/9780784484012.060

GEOGRIDS

Comparison of Pull-out Behaviour of Polyester Geogrid and Polyester Strip Soil Reinforcement
https://ascelibrary.org/doi/abs/10.1061/9780784484012.049?download=true

Empirical Modelling of Shear Behaviour of Oil Contaminated Sand – Geogrid Interface: Soil and Sediment Contamination
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15320383.2022.2051426

Mechanical and Environmental Characteristics of Geogrid-Reinforced Waste Foundry Sand Beds
https://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/doi/abs/10.1680/jgrim.21.00022?journalCode=jgrim

A 3D-FE Model for the Rutting Prediction in Geogrid Reinforced Flexible Pavements
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/14/6/3695/pdf

NEW PATENTS

HDPE-Graphene Monitoring Device for Monitoring Internal Deformation of Railway Subgrade
https://www.freepatentsonline.com/20220089201.pdf

Nicolon Patents New Geotextile with Comparable Tensile Strength in both Warp and Weft Directions
https://www.freepatentsonline.com/WO2022060766A1.pdf

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