ASTM D5884 Tearing Strength Internally Reinforced Geomembranes Test Machine

ASTM D5884 / D5884M – 04A(2015): Standard Test Method for Determining Tearing Strength of Internally Reinforced Geomembranes

This test method covers a uniform procedure for determining the tear strength of flexible geomembranes internally reinforced with a textile, using the tongue tear method.

Since tear resistance may be affected to a large degree by mechanical fibering of the membrane under stress, as well as by stress distribution, strain rate, and size of specimen, the results obtained in a tear resistance test can only be regarded as a measure of the resistance under the conditions of that particular test and not necessarily as having any direct relation to service value.