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Geotextile quality issues

April 1, 2024

…project, which is a geotextile filter below riprap on a slope within a tidal basin. Can you suggest how we can reconcile this issue? A: I hope you have good…

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Webinar – Improving Infrastructure Resilience Against Extreme Weather Events – May 7

March 6, 2024

…In this webinar, we will discuss how to incorporate GEOWEB® geocells into projects to create climate-resistant infrastructure in load support, slope stabilization, channel protection, and retaining wall applications. The discussion will…

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Solmax supplies geosynthetics for Anchorage regional landfill-expansion project

February 28, 2024

…double-sided textured GSE® HD liner and a 16 ounce (450 g) cushion geotextile with a HDPE Leachate Collection Piping System. Challenge For this project, a site-specific slope-stability analysis was performed…

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Registration open for DFI’s 49th Annual Conference on Deep Foundations

February 22, 2024

…concurrent technical tracks. One track will cover traditional topics on deep foundations, ground improvement, ground treatment, excavation support, slope stabilization, tunneling rehabilitation, and related technologies and applications. The other is a…

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Safeguarding for shallow slope sliding: A sustainable slope stabilization project

February 21, 2024

…An entertainment park was built on the top of Ba Deo Mountain in Hạ Long, a city on Vietnam’s northern coast. The slope below was covered by a…

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FGI Webinar – The Geosynthetics Discipline and Its Interaction with Geotechnical Engineering – March 5

February 19, 2024

…of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. He developed many of the design methods currently used for geosynthetics applications (leakage evaluation, filter criteria, liner system design, slope stability, unpaved roads,…

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Backfilling geomembranes

February 7, 2024

…compaction effort to break them down are likely unsuitable. Clean or screened sand is the ideal backfill material. However, the local availability of fill materials and slope stability requirements will…

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Improving the performance of geosynthetic reinforced SRW by design

February 1, 2024

…wall.  Using weak geosynthetic reinforcements embedded within the broken backslope.  In essence, the slope above the wall will become a low-cost reinforced slope that again facilitates good compaction of the…

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Global/Slope Stability Analysis

February 1, 2024

…Q: My question stems from the fact that (in my area) there still seems to be confusion over when a global/slope stability analysis is required and who is…

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Ply-Adhesion Values For Triplanar Geocomposites

February 1, 2024

…exist with steep slope, please consult R. Thiel’s 2023 keynote address from the 12th ICG in Rome, Italy, for a more complete answer:  Thiel, R. (2013). “Selection of long-term shear…

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