Miller Weldmaster unveils new Resolution Center

June 2, 2015  |  News

Miller Weldmaster (MW) announced in a June 1 press release the opening of its new Resolution Center. The center is designed for customers to have access to technical service and support for their MW machines after point of sale. Navarre, Ohio-based MW has made rotary hot-air, hot-wedge, and impulse …
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Gaining a better understanding of the porometer test (ASTM D6767)

June 1, 2015  |  News

By Bruce Lacina and Melissa Medlin 1. Introduction The ASTM international standard test method for pore size characteristics of geotextiles by capillary flow test provides a wealth of information about the physical makeup of the structure and pore spaces in a geotextile sample. This test is often re…
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Overlapping standardized test methods

June 1, 2015  |  News

GSI News By Bob & George Koerner It is generally recognized that generic test methods for all geosynthetic products are essential to manufacturing, design, permitting, specifying, and acceptance organizations to provide for a successful project at reasonable cost. Even further, it is desirable t…
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2014 International Achievement Awards: Fort Pierce City Marina

June 1, 2015  |  News

EDITOR’S NOTE Complete information regarding the parties and all Maccaferri solutions and products involved in the award-winning reconstruction of the Fort Pierce City Marina were not included in the original article. –R.B. In rebuilding the Fort Pierce City Marina, the storm protection breakwat…
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Stormwater detention pond

June 1, 2015  |  News, Q&A: GMA Techline

Geomembrane testing? Root penetration? Welding HDPE with LLDPE? Woven geopipe? Questions and answers from the GMA Techline We are designing a campus that has a pond for stormwater detention, as well as an architectural/aesthetic pond that is about an acre in area, 6 feet deep, sideslopes 4H:1V, and …
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Woven Geopipe?

June 1, 2015  |  News, Q&A: GMA Techline

Geomembrane testing? Root penetration? Welding HDPE with LLDPE? Woven geopipe? Questions and answers from the GMA Techline We hope you can give us contacts for some fabricators who could supply geosynthetic pipe or equal. We want to make woven pipe for water—sizes from 3 to 30 feet and pressures 1…
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Welding on the slope

June 1, 2015  |  News, Q&A: GMA Techline

Geomembrane testing? Root penetration? Welding HDPE with LLDPE? Woven geopipe? Questions and answers from the GMA Techline I have a colleague who is insisting that we build a pond’s embankment extension by welding new geomembrane to an old one on the “slight” slope (really somewhere 1:4 ratio)…
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Suction component to resist uplift?

June 1, 2015  |  News, Q&A: GMA Techline

Geomembrane testing? Root penetration? Welding HDPE with LLDPE? Woven geopipe? Questions and answers from the GMA Techline What about a reservoir geomembrane liner over a secondary hot-mix asphalt (HMA) liner with adequate anchorage below the crest (fill embankment) and at the bottom (minimum water …
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Spring Lobby Day 2015

June 1, 2015  |  News

GMA News By Jonathan Curry The Geosynthetic Materials Association (GMA) hosted the first of its two 2015 Lobby Days, April 20–21, in Washington, D.C. It was an exciting opportunity for our members and industry leaders to continue to educate the 114th United States Congress on the important role th…
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