Geotextile containment for hydraulic and environmental engineering

摘要

Historically, geotextile containment has been used to encapsulate sandy soils topermit their use as flexible, erosion-resistant, mass-gravity structures in hydraulic and marineapplications. More recently, geotextile containment has been used as a means of disposing of, anddewatering, various waste streams and contaminated sediments. The paper reviews the three maingeotextile containment units in use – geotextile tubes, geotextile containers and geotextile bags –and analyses their use in a wide range of hydraulic and environmental applications. Specialattention is given to the use of geotextile containment for the isolation, dewatering, and disposal ofspecific waste streams and contaminated sediments. Note: This paper is an updated version of theGiroud Lecture presented by C. R. Lawson at the 8th International Conference on Geosyntheticsheld in Yokohama, Japan, in 2006.