Methods to estimate pressures and strains in pond geomembrane bubbles
August 1, 2020
By Richard Thiel, Hesham Eldesouky and Richard Brachman This article provides an update, validation and improved approach for predicting the shape, pressure and strains that can occur in an exposed geomembrane bubble (aka “whale”) created by gas trapped below the geomembrane in a pond (Figure 1). The October/November 2017 issue of Geosynthetics magazine presented an …