JOURNAL ARTICLES

Roosevelt Manor sits in the heart of Camden, New Jersey’s Centerville neighborhood across the Delaware River from Philadelphia. Built in the early 1950’s via authorization of President Harry Truman and under the direction of the Camden Housing Authority, Roosevelt Manor broke new ground as an integrated public housing development. Unfortunately, Camden, like many other urban cities, struggled over the last half of the century. Just over 50 years after opening its doors the four acre development was demolished and with HopeVI funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Roosevelt Manor was rebuilt.

This paper provides answers to design questions for geomembrane including design strength, maximum slope angle ad strength parameters.

The 10-year results of an ongoing study on the long-term performance of a PVC geomembrane in Northern Minnesota are presented.

This paper presents an experimental study to develop a design procedure for the puncture behavior of PVC geomembranes. After comparison, it was concluded that PVC geomembranes have higher puncture resistance than polyethylene geomembranes despite the PVC membranes being thinner.

This paper presents a design procedure for the puncture protection of PVC geomembranes. Additionally, a new modification factor for critical cone height, MFCCH, was developed to reflect the puncture resistance of flexible PVC geomembranes.