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Drs. R.J. Bathurst (Editor) and J.P. Giroud (Chairman of the Editorial Board) of Geosynthetics International, an official journal of the International Geosynthetics Society (IGS), have announced the award for 2010’s best paper: “Geosynthetic capillary barriers: current state of knowledge.”
(The article has been made free-to-all courtesy of Thomas Telford Ltd.)
Authored by J.G. Zornberg, A. Bouazza and J.S. McCartney, the article appeared in Geosynthetics International Volume 17, No. 5, pp 273-300. The paper provides a theoretical background, laboratory data and full-scale measurements towards understanding the interaction between soils and geosynthetics under unsaturated conditions. In the abstract, the authors highlight how "Experimental data are provided illustrating that geosynthetic capillary barriers are superior to soil-only capillary barriers. Based on this observation, it is emphasized that no capillary barrier should be designed without consideration of the enhanced performance offered by the inclusion of nonwoven geotextiles under the fine-grained soil component of the cover.”
The editor and editorial board have also announced a runner-up (honorable mention): “Time histories of tensile force in geogrid arranged in two full-scale high walls” by W. Kongkitkul, F. Tatsuoka, D. Hirakawa, T. Sugimoto, S. Kawahata, M. Ito. The article appeared in Volume 17, No. 1, pp 12-33.
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