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Why 30 mil PVC is Equivalent to 60 mil HDPE


Eliminating costly tests for PVC geomembranes by using new ASTM D 7177 air channel test for field seams

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


Air Channel Test ASTM D 7177 Eliminates Water Balance Test of PVC Geomembrane Lined Surface Impoundment

F.P.Rohe & D.S.Rohe


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


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...
Volume 5 - Issue 8                             ~ ASTM D 7177...
Volume 6 - Issue 4                   ~ ASTM Recognition...
Volume 6 - Issue 5                 ~ Air Channel Testing...
Volume 8 - Issue 4  ~ASTM D7408 for PVC Seams...


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  


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


Checking in with PGI ~ GFR Article


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


Reduction of Tests for PVC Seams - GFR Article

 

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