Research Article
Laboratory Evaluation of Interactions in the Degradation of a Polypropylene Geotextile in Marine Environments
Table 4
Tensile properties of the geotextile after the multiple exposure degradation tests.
| | Degradation test | T (kN·m−1) | (%) | (%) | RF |
| | Seawater + TO | 18.56 (±2.35) | 39.1 (±5.5) | 69.7 | 1.44 | | H2O + TO | 25.01 (±2.27) | 54.2 (±4.6) | 93.9 | 1.07 | | NaCl + TO | 15.51 (±2.58) | 34.2 (±8.1) | 58.2 | 1.72 | | Seawater + QUV | 6.26 (±2.68) | 24.0 (±3.7) | 23.5 | 4.26 | | H2O + QUV | 12.31 (±1.43) | 34.5 (±2.1) | 46.2 | 2.16 | | NaCl + QUV | 10.12 (±2.32) | 30.4 (±4.1) | 38.0 | 2.63 | | QUV + TO | 12.30 (±1.19) | 31.9 (±2.6) | 46.2 | 2.17 | | Seawater + QUV + TO | 5.39 (±1.60) | 21.2 (±4.1) | 20.2 | 4.94 |
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The 95% confidence intervals are given in parentheses.
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