5. Glossary
Additives: products added to the basic waterproofing material (polymer or bitumen) to form the waterproofing compound.
Assembly: all processes used to join panels (i.e., strips and/or sheets) to form a waterproof seal.
Calendering: a method of producing geomembranes that involves passing a molten waterproof compound between parallel rotating cylinders.
Calender: machine comprising cylinders used for the production of geomembranes by calendering.
Blistering: localized swelling of the top layer of a multilayer geomembrane caused by the expansion of gas trapped between two layers of the geomembrane, particularly gas resulting from the vaporization...
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CFG – French Geosynthetics Committee
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IGS – International Geosynthetics Society
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International Conference on Geosynthetics
Organized under the auspices of the International Geosynthetics Society (IGS), this congress takes place 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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