Geosynthetics are a category of materials—textiles, grids, membranes, composites, and more—that are used in infrastructure projects like roads, retaining walls and landfills.

Civil Engineering Professor David Frost, the new president of the Geosynthetic Institute, said geosynthetic materials are an important technology for engineers working to design more resilient infrastructure to withstand the increasingly severe natural disasters of the future.

“Geosynthetics are a resilience maker,” Frost said. “Whether to enhance the strength, alter the hydraulic conductivity, limit the deformation or control various rate processes, geosynthetics inherently augment the engineering properties of natural geomaterials.”

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