Test Methods

 

Test Property Test Standard
Mechanical strength ASTM D 4595 (Tensile Properties of Geotextiles by the Wide Width Strip Method)
ASTM D 4632 (Grab Breaking Load and Elongation of Geotextiles)
ASTM D 4533 (Trapezoid Tearing Strength of Geotextiles)
ASTM D 3787 (Bursting Strength of Textiles Constant Rate of Traverse (CRT) Ball Burst Test)

ASTM D 3786 (Bursting Strength of Textile Fabrics Diaphragm Bursting Strength Tester Method)
ASTM D 4833 (Index Puncture Resistance of Geomembranes and Related Products)
ISO 10319 (Geotextiles Wide Width tensile test)
ISO 12236 (Geosynthetics Static Puncture test (CBR test))
Discharge capacity
under vertical position
ASTM D 6918 (Testing Vertical Strip Drains in the Crimped Condition)
EN 15237 (Execution of special geotechnical works vertical drainage)
Discharge capacity under horizontal position ASTM D 4716 (Determining the (In-Plane) Flow Rate Per Unit Width and Hydraulic Transmissivity of a Geosynthetic Using a Constant Head)
ISO 12958 (Geotextiles and geotextile related products Determination of water flow capacity in their plane)
Water permeability ASTM D 4491 (Water permeability of geotextiles by permittivity)
ISO 11058 (Geodtextiles and geotextile related products Determination of water permeability characteristics normal to the plane, without load)
Opening size ASTM D 4751 (Determining Apparent Opening Size of a Geotextile)
ISO 12956 (Geotextiles and geotextile related products Determination of the characteristics opening size)
Electronic scale ASTM D 5261 (Measuring Mass per Unit Area of Geotextiles)
ISO 9864 (Geotextiles Determination of mass per unit area)
Thickness gauge ASTM D 5199 (Measuring the Nominal Thickness of Geosynthetics)
ISO 9863-1 (Geosynthetics Determination of thickness at specified pressures)