7. Glossary

Assembly: all the processes used to join panels (i.e. strips and/or sheets) to form a watertight seal.

Composite waterproofing: waterproofing consisting of a geomembrane and a low-permeability mineral layer (clay or bentonite geocomposite).

Geocomposite: geosynthetic made up of an assembly of several components, at least one of which is a geosynthetic.

Bentonite geocomposite: a geosynthetic composed of a layer of bentonite combined with one or more geotextiles (or sometimes a geomembrane).

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