High performance textiles for geotechnical engineering geotextiles and related materials

High performance textiles for geotechnical engineering geotextiles and related materials 

Key words geosynthetics, geotextiles, geocomposites, structures, properties, functions, multifunctionality, applications. 

Collectively, these synthetic polymer-based materials are given the generic term geosynthetics, meaning artificial ground and may be defined as  

Most non-textile geosynthetics are used with geotextiles, and therefore it is more informative to consider the functions, structures and properties of all the material types. This should aid the reader s understanding of the role played by geotextiles, whether employed with the other materials or as their substitutes in the various geotechnical applications described later as examples. 

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