STRESS CRACKING OF POLYETHYLENE GEOMEMBRANES: FIELD EXPERIENCE. DURABILITY AND AGING OF GEOSYNTHETICS. PAPERS PRESENTED AT A SEMINAR HELD AT THE GEOSYNTHETIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE, DREXEL UNIVERSITY, PHILADELPHIA, DECEMBER 8-9 1988

The characteristics and typical appearance of stress cracking, including environmental stress cracking and brittle cracking due to ultraviolet radiation in polyethylene liners of surface impoundments, are presented and discussed. Cracking predominantly occurs in lining systems that are overstressed due to restrained thermal contraction during low-temperature cycles, due to residual stresses, and due to notch geometries acting as local stress concentrators. Therefore, cracking occurs primarily at seams. Stress cracking per se is not a fundamental problem in polyethylene geomembranes, although it is acknowledged that geomembrane manufactured from some resins and some seam geometries may be more susceptible to stress cracking than others.(a) for the covering abstract of the seminar see IRRD 824467.

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• Authors:
  • Peggs, I D
  • Carlson, D S
• Publication Date: 1989

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 195-211
• Serial:
  • Publication of: Commission of the European Communities
  • Publisher: Commission of the European Communities

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aging (Materials); Cracking; Deterioration; Durability; Ethylene resins; Freeze thaw durability; Geotextiles; Oxidation; Stresses; Temperature; Ultraviolet radiation; Weathering
• Uncontrolled Terms: Polyethylene
• Subject Areas: Geotechnology;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00498072
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• ISBN: 1-85166-363-0
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 30 1990 12:00AM