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Contributions of Eric Blond to Industry Events (2020 and ongoing)
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May 17, 20242 min read
GeoAmericas'24 Panel on Reducing Embodied Carbon with Geosynthetic Drains
Panel organized by the Technical Committee on Hydraulics of the IGS Panelists Eric Blond, Eric Blond Consultant (Canada) Stephan...
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Eric
May 17, 20243 min read
GeoAmericas'24 Panel on Welding Thermoplastic Geomembranes in Arctic Conditions
Hosted on April 30 by ASTM D35, with the support of IAGI and the Technical Committee on Barriers of the IGS (TC-B) Panelists Eric Blond,...
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May 16, 20241 min read
Installation Requirements for Sealing Products under Nordic Conditions - Presentation at Queens University
The GeoEngineering Center at Queens University hosted me for a presentation on the report prepared for Sintef in 2023, as part of the...
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Eric
Nov 17, 20231 min read
Report - Installation of Sealing Products under Nordic Conditions (ROUGH Project)
Report prepared for SINTEF, proposing recommendations for installation of geomembranes / sealing products in Nordic conditions. This...
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Eric
Nov 9, 20231 min read
ICID Congress - IGS Side Event on Water Management and Storage with Geosynthetics
Organization of a Side Event at the ICID Congress held in Visakhapatnam, India Slides of the presentations available for download below.
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Eric
Nov 9, 20231 min read
XII ICG, Rome, September 2023
3 contributions: - "Factors affecting the long-term performance of biplanar geonetgeocomposites" - "Status of existing information on...
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Eric
Nov 9, 20231 min read
IGS Australia (ACIGS) - Webinar on the Design of Geotextile Filters
Webinar on the design of geotextile filters Slides available here:
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Eric
Nov 9, 20231 min read
IGS TCH / TCB Webinar, Service life of Geosynthetics in Hydraulic Applications
Joint webinar, organized with the Technical Committee on Barrier and the Technical Committee on Hydraulic Applications
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Eric
Nov 9, 20231 min read
'Educate the Educator' event in Romania, May 17 2023
Delivered the Lecture on "Filtration and Drainage with Geosynthetics", for the EtE Event organized by Ernest Olinic (with me on the...
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Eric
Nov 9, 20231 min read
Technical Note on Strain Hardening, May 12, 2023
In this note we are observing the effect of the specimen on the observation, hence question the relevance of the test performed without...
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Eric
Nov 9, 20231 min read
GeoAfrica Conference, Cairo - February 2023
- Special session organized with the Technical Committee on Hydraulics - Invitation of Dr Ragab, President of ICID, who made a...
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Eric
Nov 2, 20221 min read
GeoAsia 7 - Taipei, Taiwan
Two Special Sessions and a Keynote Lecture organized by the Technical Committee on Hydraulics Wednesday, November 2; 14:40 – 16:10 TC-H...
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Eric
Nov 2, 20222 min read
Special session on Geosynthetics at the ICID Conference, Adelaide, Australia
Organized with the collaboration of the ICID https://icid-ciid.org/home and Irrigation Australia https://www.irrigationaustralia.com.au/...
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Eric
Nov 1, 20221 min read
Meeting of ISO TC221 on Geosynthetics in Montreal, Quebec, organized on behalf of SCC
Eric Blond organized a meeting of committees WG2, WG3, WG6 and a plenary meeting of ISO TC221. These meetings were held over 3 days in...
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Eric
Nov 1, 20221 min read
Eric Blond elected on the IGS Council
Meet IGS Council members here: https://www.geosyntheticssociety.org/about-us/igs-council/ Role taking effect at the first meeting of the...
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Eric
Nov 1, 20221 min read
EuroGeo7 - Warsaw, Poland
Excellent Conference organized by the Polish Chapter of the IGS! www.eurogeo7.org 2 sessions sponsored by the Technical Committee on...
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Eric
Nov 1, 20221 min read
IGS TC-H Webinar: Geotextile Pore Opening Size Measurement using a Porometer or an Optical Test
Webinar hosted by the IGS, recordings are available on the IGS web page, see https://www.geosyntheticssociety.org/council-committees/tech...
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Eric
May 2, 20221 min read
Rencontres Géosynthétiques, 5 au 7 avril 2022, Saint-Malo, France
Eric Blond a présenté la publication "Caractérisation des propriétés de frottement des géomembranes texturées" (Characterization of shear...
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Eric
May 2, 20221 min read
ACIGS Webinar on double lining systems utilizing geomembranes
Eric Blond ACIGS Webinar on: "Double lining systems utilizing geomembranes and geosynthetic drains: why are they so much better?" In this...
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Eric
May 2, 20221 min read
Eric Blond nominated Chairman of ASTM D35.10 subcommittee on Geomembranes
ASTM D35 is the ASTM committee dedicated to Geosynthetics. ASTM D35 develops test methods, practices, guides and specifications...
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