... ) and 10% high-density polyethylene ( HDPE ) resin. Times to antioxidant depletion and nominal tensile failure generally increased from BzSw10 to BzSw15 to BzS20 across all media. Among the solutions, pH 13.5 was the most aggressive, causing faster antioxidant depletion and onset of degradation, followed...

... and in-soil stiffness of three out of the four geogrids decreased during the 4-month ageing time with a faster degradation of the two PET geogrids. In contrast, one of the HDPE geogrids examined with thicker rib showed slower degradation compared to the PET counterparts. It is also shown that a geogrid might...

... with a previous study, there is a significant reduction in stress crack resistance (SCR) before there is clear evidence of oxidative degradation; this is attributed to the morphological changes due to disentanglement of entangled polymer chains. The effect of this apparent morphological change on SCR appeared...

...M. G. A. Guimarães; D. de Mattos Vidal; D. de Carvalho Urashima; C. A. C. Castro Maintaining satisfactory properties in geosynthetics exposed to factors that could lead to their degradation needs to be considered in projects employing these materials. Geosynthetics subjected to tensile creep...

... conditions, are numerically simulated based on a non-linear three-component rheology model: (a) the load–strain behaviour is always free from material degradation; (b) the load–strain behaviour exhibits simultaneous viscous effects and material degradation as in usual actual field cases; and (c...

... Thomas Telford Ltd 2006 Geosynthetics Weathering Degradation Geotextile Seawater Tensile strength Tear strength Puncture strength The weathering properties of the geotextiles were evaluated using grab tensile, strip tensile, trapezoidal tear, and puncture tests according to the ASTM D...