Photographic Library

A photographic library is being developed at geosynthetica.net as a means to help engineers understand the nature and cause(s) of geosynthetic materials/product performance concerns. It will represent the performance of geosynthetics since the early 1980s so it should be noted that a number of the early materials problems have been resolved and occur only infrequently these days. In fact, the predominant cause of failures these days is not the quality of the geosynthetic product itself, rather, it is the design of geosynthetic containing systems applications to which the specified geosynthetics are not suited – a lack of knowledge by the design engineer of the performance characteristics of the different geosynthetic material products. We welcome additional examples from around the world (liners, caps, walls, slopes, berms/bunds, floating covers, erosion control, roads, dams, etc.). Please send a photograph and a very brief explanation of the cause of failure to Geosynthetica.