Mechanical and Thermoanalytical Study of Polypropylene Geomats Exposed in the Field and the Laboratory
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2023-06-01
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Lins da Silva, Jefferson
Valentin, Clever Aparecido
Kobelnik, Marcelo
Pedroso, Gabriel Orquizas Mattielo [UNESP]
Aparício-Ardila, Maria Alejandra
Araújo Júnior, Luiz Paulo Vieira de
Luz, Marta Pereira da
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A Hydroelectric Power Plant (HPP) presents erosion problems on reservoir slopes and margins. Geomats are a biotechnical composite technology increasingly used to protect soils against erosion. Survivability or durability of geomats is essential for successful application. This work analyses the degradation of geomats exposed in the field for more than six years. These geomats were used as erosion-control treatment in a slope at HPP Simplício in Brazil. The degradation of the geomats in the laboratory was also analysed through exposure in a UV ageing chamber for 500 h and 1000 h. Degradation was quantitatively evaluated by testing the tensile strength of the geomat wires and thermal tests such as thermogravimetry (TG) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The results showed that the geomat wires exposed in the field had a greater decrease in resistance compared to the samples exposed in the laboratory. In the samples collected in the field, it could be observed that the degradation of the virgin sample occurred earlier than in the exposed samples, contrary to what was observed in the TG tests carried out with the samples exposed in the laboratory. The DSC analysis showed that the samples had similar behaviours for the melting peaks. This evaluation of the wires of the geomats was presented as an alternative to analysing the tensile strengths of discontinuous geosynthetic materials such as the geomats.
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erosion-control techniques, geomat, geosynthetics, slope
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Materials, v. 16, n. 11, 2023.