Geosynthetics - Testing Coastal Protection (Ch1)

Sand Filled Geocontainers

The first of three chapters looking at a Water Research Laboratories (UNSW) project testing the performance of sand filled containers in coastal protection. This chapter focuses on the history and use of sand filled containers in Australia. Part of the Geosynthetics at Work series produced by Australia's International Fibre Centre.

We acknowledge that the terms "geobag", "geotube" and "geocontainer" are the registered trademarks of TenCate Geosynthetics.  The terms were used in the lectures by the Australian speakers as Geofabrics are a distributor of TenCate Geosynthetics products in Australia.

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Education

Tags:

• geosynthetics
• geofabrics
• coastal erosion
• elcorock
• UNSW
• Water Research Laboratories
• IFC