Research Article
Laboratory Evaluation of Interactions in the Degradation of a Polypropylene Geotextile in Marine Environments
Table 3
Tensile properties of the geotextile before and after the single exposure degradation tests.
| | Degradation test | T (kN·m−1) | (%) | (%) | RF |
| | Reference (unexposed) | 26.64 (±1.41) | 71.6 (±3.2) | — | — | | Immersion in seawater | 26.20 (±2.50) | 72.4 (±7.7) | 98.3 | 1.02 | | Immersion in H2O | 26.82 (±2.67) | 71.5 (±5.6) | 100.7 | 1.00 | | Immersion in NaCl | 25.66 (±0.86) | 75.3 (±7.3) | 96.3 | 1.04 | | Thermooxidation | 24.67 (±1.88) | 53.3 (±4.5) | 92.6 | 1.08 | | Artificial weathering | 12.42 (±1.85) | 34.4 (±2.3) | 46.6 | 2.14 |
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The 95% confidence intervals are given in parentheses.
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