SESSION 3A: PROPERTIES AND TESTING

The following papers were presented at this session of the conference: Permeability of Polymeric Membrane Lining Materials (Haxo, HE and Miedema, JA); Impermeability: The Myth and a Rational Approach (Giroud, JP); Permeabilities of Commercially Available Polymeric Liners for Hazardous Landfill Leachate Organic Constituents (Gugust, H and Tatzky, R); Water Repellency Requirements for Geomembranes (Lawson, CR and Ingles, OG); The Behaviour of Geomembranes in Relation to the Soil (Fayoux, D and Loudiere, D); Report on Two-Dimensional Strain Stress Behaviour of Geomembranes With and Without Friction (Steffen, H); Frictional Characteristics of a Geomembrane (Saxena, SK and Wong, YT); Experimental Friction Evaluation of Slippage Between Geomembranes, Geotextiles and Soils (Martin, JP and Whitty, JE); Work-to-Rupture: Using the Stress-Strain Relationship to Optimize SCRIM Reinforcement of FML Burke, RM); Evaluation of Geomembrane Seams Exposed to Selected Environmental Conditions (Frobel, RK and Curran, MA); Application of Mass Spectrometry to the Study of Geomembranes (Leiker, TJ and Frobel, RK); Compression Creep of Geotextiles used as Protective Geomembrane Underliners (Newkirk, DD). For the covering abstract of the conference see TRIS 394682. (TRRL)