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Geotextiles

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Filter fabric

Definition

Permeable fabrics which, when used in association with soil, have the ability to separate, filter, reinforce, protect, or drain. The term “filter fabric” is more expressive, but it has fallen into comparative disuse. Geotextiles are really fabric materials used in a “geo,” that is an Earth-related, engineering context.

The Classification of Geotextiles

There are two principal geotextile or structure types: woven and nonwoven. Other manufacturing techniques, for example knitting and stitch bonding, are occasionally used in the manufacture of specialty products (The Bombay Textile Research Association 2012) (Fig. 1).

Geotextiles, Fig. 1
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Types of geotextiles

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  1. Department of Water Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran

    Saeid Eslamian, Majedeh Sayahi & Sayedeh Zahra Hosseini-Teshnizi

  2. Department of Civil Engineering, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran

    Kaveh Ostad-Ali-Askari & Sayed Alireza Zareei

  3. Civil Engineering Department, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran

    Niloofar Salemi

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Correspondence to Kaveh Ostad-Ali-Askari .

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  1. Sidney, BC, Canada

    Peter T. Bobrowsky

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    Brian Marker

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Eslamian, S., Sayahi, M., Ostad-Ali-Askari, K., Hosseini-Teshnizi, S.Z., Zareei, S.A., Salemi, N. (2018). Geotextiles. In: Bobrowsky, P.T., Marker, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Engineering Geology. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73568-9_140

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