October 2018 Vol. 7

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GNA – Global Geosynthetics Industry News


CITIC Pacific Mining’s (CPM) Sino Iron project at Cape Preston Seeking Geomembrane Installers & Civil/Construction Personnel
https://www.seek.com.au/job/37483390

Physical Performance of a Bituminous Geomembrane for use as a Basal Liner in Heap Leach Pads
http://www.titanenviro.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/BGM_Clinton_GeoOttawaFINAL_v9.pdf

Strata Tutorial Locking Mechanism for StrataWeb® Geocells (Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVa1DZKAsQU

AE Group Civil & Mining Awarded $2 Million Tender to construct a new 820,000m3 Landfill Cell for Waste Disposal at the Bunya Waste Management facility
http://1015fm.com.au/2018/10/a-new-multi-million-landfill-for-bunya/

Solid Waste Group Sues US-EPA Over Landfill Disposal of Coal Combustion Residuals
https://scholar.google.com.au/scholar_case?case=6686095545362042540&q=geomembrane&hl=en&scisbd=2&as_sdt=2006

Tennessee Clean Water Network Sues Power Company Over leaking of Coal Combustion Residuals into Groundwater
https://scholar.google.com.au/scholar_case?case=8142750863015288114&q=geosynthetic&hl=en&scisbd=2&as_sdt=2006

Hydraulic Conductivity of Bentonite-Polymer Geosynthetic Clay Liners to Coal Combustion Product Leachates (New Paper)
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-13-2224-2_82

The Study of the Interlock of Ballast in Triaxial Geogrids (Full Paper)
https://www.matec-conferences.org/articles/matecconf/pdf/2018/70/matecconf_vetomacxiv2018_12001.pdf

WatershedGeo Publishes List of its Geotechnical and Geosynthetic Testing Partners
http://watershedgeo.com/research-and-testing-partners/

Equivalent Design and Evaluation of the Liner System for a Hazardous Waste Landfill Vertical Expansion (New Paper)
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-13-2224-2_35

A Review of Experimental and Prediction Methods for Assessing the Freezing Characteristic Curve of GCLs (New Paper)
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-13-2224-2_76

Containing Bauxite Liquor Using Bentonite-Polymer Composite Geosynthetic Clay Liners (New Paper)
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-13-2224-2_83

Using Fluid Loss to Evaluate the Hydraulic Conductivity of Geosynthetic Clay Liners Under Mining Leachates (New Paper)
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-13-2224-2_84

Mechanical Damage of Geosynthetics Used in the Base Liner System of Landfills Caused by Different Aggregates (New Paper)
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-13-2224-2_86

Applications of Geomembrane Cutoff Walls in Remediation of Contaminated Sites (New Paper)
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-13-2224-2_41

Effect of Consolidation on VOC Transport Through a GM/GCL Composite Liner System (New Paper)
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-13-2224-2_74

Resilience of Australian Polymer-Modified Powdered Sodium Bentonite Geosynthetic Clay Liners to Downslope Bentonite Erosion (New Paper)
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-13-2224-2_78

Novel Application of Geosynthetics in Seismic Protection of Buildings Considering Soil-Foundation-Structure Interaction (New Paper)
https://opus.lib.uts.edu.au/handle/10453/128018

Behavior of Geogrid Reinforced and Unreinforced Non-connected Pile Raft Foundation (New Paper)
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40999-018-0362-4


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