Use of geosynthetic materials in dam construction

Geosynthetic materials in the form of geomembranes, geotextiles, geonets, geomats, geocomposites, etc., are used widely in modern dam construction. The article describes structural elements of dams in which various types of geosynthetics are used and those functions which geosynthetics perform in these elements.Translated from Gidrotekhnicheskoe Stroitel'stvo, No. 10, pp. 50–54, October, 1992.