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Professor William Powrie’s Rail Research with Geosynthetics Recognized by Queen Elizabeth Prize

Manufacturing Bio-tiles by Microbially Induced Calcium Carbonate (CaCO3) Precipitation (MICP) in/on Geotextiles

Saving Malaysian Island from Coastal Damage with Oysters and Geotextiles

Terram® Launches Advanced Pond Liner Protection Geotextile

GEOMEMBRANES

Cold Temperature Behaviour of Polyethylene Geomembranes

Degradation of Blended Polyolefin Geomembranes

High-Temperature Performance of PE‐RT Grades [pdf]

Radon Transport in a Geomembrane for Restoration of a Phosphogypsum Repository in Spain

Textured Aluminium Surrogate Geomembrane Role of particle size and element characteristics on shear response at sandy soil-textured surface interfaces

GEOTEXTILES

Permafrost Thawing Prevention with Cooling Geotextile

Platipus Anchors New Anchor Pegs for Anchoring Geotextile Matting to Ground

Burlap Geotextile BIODEGRADABLE SILT FENCE Patented by BluRock Investments, LLC

Novel Geotextile Shoreline Protection

Hydrodynamic Effects and Scour Protection of a Geotextile Mattress with a Floating Plate

Evaluation of the Accuracy of Three Design Methods for Reinforced Piled Embankments

Effects of Fines Content on the Wicking  Performance of Wicking-Nonwoven Geotextiles

GEOGRIDS

Assessment of Lime Dosage and Uniaxial Geogrid on the Strength and Durability of Lateritic Subgrade

Long-Term Performance of PET Geogrids with LLDPE Coating in Alkaline Conditions: Exhumation Findings Post Lime and Cement Stabilization

Numerical Analysis of the Working Performance of Ring Combination Geogrid Reinforced Retaining Wall

Performance of Fibre Admixed Geosynthetic Reinforcement in Layered Soil System

Non-Classical Operational Calculus in the Analysis of the Behaviour of Geosynthetics in Railway Engineering Structures

GEOCELLS

Integrating Supervised Machine Learning with Laboratory Data To Evaluate the Modulus Improvement Factor in Geocell-Reinforced Soils

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