EFFECTIVENESS OF PEEL AND SHEAR TESTS IN EVALUATING HDPE GEOMEMBRANE SEAMS. Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • Field prepared seams in geomembranes must not leak. Nevertheless, many installations are made without quality control programs and those quality control programs which do exist do not address the potential behavior of membrane seams over extended periods. The significance of the data produced by mechanical shear and peel tests is discussed together with considerations of modified tests to generate more appropriate data. Individual test acceptance criteria are considered in the development of a basic set of criteria for the acceptance of multi-specimen sample cut-outs.

author list (cited authors)

  • Peggs, I. D., & Little, D.

complete list of authors

  • Peggs, ID||Little, D

publication date

  • December 1985