Protecting baffle curtains within water retaining structures

摘要

Membranes used as baffles or curtain walls within reservoirs, contact tanks, or other water retaining structures, need to be positioned and/or protected to ensure that excessive hydrostic and hydrodynamic pressures or impacts from cascading or turbulent water are not exerted upon the material. While the membrane materials and fixings have adequate tensile strength and tear resistance, they are not specifically designed to structurally and dynamically accommodate high differential hydrostic pressure across any wall, or to resist sustained and indeterminate effects of cyclic or even one-off impacts from adjacent cascading or turbulent water.