THEMES

The condition in which soil particles block the voids at the surface of a geotextile, thereby reducing the hydraulic conductivity of the geotextile.

The movement by mechanical action or hydraulic flow of soil particles into the voids of a fabric and retention therein, thereby reducing the hydraulic conductivity of a geotextile.

Geosynthetic improvement of the ability to resist lateral movement of the aggregate.

The direction of a geosynthetic which is perpendicular to the plane of its manufactured direction.  Referred to in hydraulic situations.

The direction perpendicular to the long, machine, or manufactured direction (synonyms: woven geotextiles, weft direction

In textiles, the direction in a machine-made fabric parallel to the direction of movement the fabric followed in the manufacturing process (synonym: lengthwise,

The increase in length produced in the gage length of the test specimen by a tensile load.

The elongation corresponding to the maximum load.

For geosynthetics, the increase in length of a specimen expressed as a percentage of the original gage length (i.e., engineering strain).