...Shi Shu, PhD; Jianyong Shi, PhD; Zuqiang Yao, MSc; Tao Zhang, PhD Heat and gas generation from the degradation of municipal solid waste affects landfill slope stability. Currently, the differences between heat and gas generation are understood, and landfill slope stability analyses considering...

...Xuede Qian, PhD; Robert M. Koerner, PhD, PE, NAE A two-part wedge method for the translational failure analysis of landfills was used to find an effective method to determine the critical interface having the minimum factor of safety for landfills with multilayer geosynthetics. The critical...

...T. Thyagaraj, PhD; Sudhakar M. Rao, PhD Depending on the relative chemical concentrations of clay pore water and landfill leachate, three osmotic flow scenarios may be anticipated to dissipate the osmotic suction gradient: outward osmotic flow, inward osmotic flow and no (osmotic) flow. This study...

... geotextiles, membranes & geogrids groundwater landfill In 1978, hundreds of people were moved from homes around Love Canal in Niagara Falls, NY (Rowe, 2012). This, and other high-profile cases of contamination due to the disposal of toxic chlorinated solvents in unlined pits, alerted the public...

...Francesco Castelli, PhD; Valentina Lentini, PhD; Michele Maugeri, PhD As documented after some recent earthquakes, landfills can be damaged by seismic loading. Thus, to analyse their stability, site-specific dynamic soil properties must be evaluated, and representative dynamic properties...

...Maria-Lurdes Lopes, PhD, Eng; Cristina Cunha Gomes, PhD, Eng Most monitoring programs implemented in sanitary landfills are based on the principles of geotechnical instrumentation and monitoring of earthworks, such as earth dams, which require custom equipment and installation methods. From 2001...

... landfill The current way of describing diffusion transport through landfill liners is a simple diffusion model coupled to a linear adsorption. The 1D contaminant transport in soils in the absence of advective flow can be expressed using the following form of Fick’s second law: 1 n R d...

... on Radioactive Waste Management)   2006   Managing our radioactive waste safely, CoRWM’s recommendations to government   CoRWM doc 700 Heimovaara   TJ , Cossu   R , Sloot   HA   2007   State of the art and perspectives for sustainable landfilling   Proceedings...

.... To equalise pressure, a mass of gas travels from a region of higher pressure to a lower one. In the context of landfills, the primary driving force for gas migration, especially through cover systems, is a pressure differential due to natural fluctuations in atmospheric pressure (Vangpaisal and Bouazza, 2004...

... leachate in landfill sites, the movement of sea water into the groundwater when the latter is lower due to various reasons and frequent contact of soil along the coast with sea water. Forty-one soil samples were prepared in this study by mixing different proportions of various clay minerals...

...L.G. Santhosh, MTech; G.L. Sivakumar Babu, ME, PhD One of the most convenient ways to communicate the risk of groundwater contamination in the vicinity of a landfill is through the use of probability of failure or reliability of the containment system of the landfill. The reliability...

...Dimitrios Zekkos, PhD; Vasileios S. Vlachakis, MSc; George A. Athanasopoulos, PhD A case history of a waste slope failure at a municipal solid waste (MSW) landfill in southern Greece is presented. The failure occurred on December 29, 2010, and involved the displacement of approximately 12 000...

... Symposium on Coupled Phenomena in Environmental Geotechnics, Turin, Italy, July 2013. 08 05 2013 06 08 2013 ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2014 geomembranes landfill mining & quarrying Liners have been an essential component of modern municipal solid waste (MSW...