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7. Glossary
Assembly: all the processes used to join panels (i.e. strips and/or sheets) to form a watertight seal.
Bentonite: a variety of clay with very low permeability.
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).
Geogrid: grid-shaped geosynthetic...
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Bibliography
Websites
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CFG – French Geosynthetics Committee
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IGS – International Geosynthetics Society
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Events
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International Congress on Geosynthetics
Organized under the aegis of the International Geosynthetics Society (IGS), the congress is held every four years: Paris (1977), Las Vegas (1982), Vienna (1986), The Hague (1990), Singapore (1994), Atlanta (1998), Nice (2002), Yokohama (2006), Guaruja/Sao Paulo (2010), Berlin (2014), Seoul (2018).
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