... on the slope and base was minimal near summer solstice and increased significantly earlier and later in the year (except when covered in snow). There was significant variability in GMB and interface temperature depending on the contact conditions between the GMB and GCL. The interface temperatures at wrinkles...

...M.J. Chappel; R.K. Rowe; R.W.I. Brachman; W.A. Take ABSTRACT: The length of the longest wrinkles formed in black, exposed high-density polyethylene (HDPE) geomembranes are compared for nine different field cases for a range of different conditions (base or slope; GCL, CCL (geosynthetic clay liner...

... networks of wrinkles (sometimes referred to as waves). These wrinkle networks may be significant in terms of increasing leakage through this barrier system if there is a hole at or near the wrinkle. In this paper, a novel method to quantify geomembrane wrinkles in the field is reported using low-altitude...

..., geomembrane strain concentrations, geomembrane stress cracking pattern, geomembrane wrinkles, and geosynthetic resistance to differential settlement. The selected examples are such that the important behavioral aspect is not the behavior of the structure in which the geosynthetic is incorporated...

...T. Pelte; P. Pierson; J.P. Gourc Wrinkles frequently appear in geomembranes exposed to solar radiation. In 1992, Giroud and Morel established a model to predict the wrinkle geometry according to the temperature and thermal characteristics of the geomembrane. The aim of this paper is to throw some...