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Eliminating costly tests for PVC geomembranes by using new ASTM D7177 air channel test for field seams

Dan Rohe - The First Pan American Geosynthetics Conference & Exhibition, Cancun, Mexico, March 2008

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Air Channel Test ASTM D7177 Eliminates Water Balance Test of PVC Geomembrane Lined Surface Impoundment

F.P.Rohe & D.S.Rohe

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Strength testing of thermal welded PVC geomembrane field seams using non-destructive air channel methods

F.P.Rohe & D.S.Rohe - 8th IGC, Yokohama, Japan

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EPI Thermal Welding Page

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EPI Air Channel Testing Page

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EPI Welding Temperature Page

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Why 30 mil PVC is Equivalent to 60 mil HDPE

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The Liner Letter - Issues on Thermal Welding
Volume 1 - Issue 2                              ~ Research...
Volume 2 - Issue 4        ~ EPI Thermal Welding...
Volume 2 - Issue 5          ~ Air Channel Testing...
Volume 2 - Issue 13 ~ Young's Landfill Closure
Volume 3 - Issue 1                  ~ PVC Innovation...
Volume 3 - Issue 3   ~ Crown Vantage Landfill...
Volume 3 - Issue 4              ~ Cement Kiln Dust...
Volume 5 - Issue 4  ~ Emerging Technologies...

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Air Channel Testing Landfill PVC Geomembrane Seams

This paper was published in the March 2005 issue of Geotechnical Fabrics Report & includes EPI's Case Study of the Crown Vantage Landfill without reference

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Air Channel Burst Testing of Thermal PVC Seams  

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Low Temperature Air Channel Testing of PVC...
        This paper provides formulas for air channel
        testing pressures

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Checking in with PGI ~ GFR Article

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Thermally Bonded PVC Seams "State of the Art"...

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Reduction of Tests for PVC Seams - GFR Article

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