An equivalent analytical model based on time moments is proposed to estimate the properties of landfill composite liners. The service performance of landfill liners composed of a geomembrane layer (GMBL), a geosynthetic clay layer (GCL), and an attenuation layer (AL) and a GMBL, compacted clay layer (CCL), and AL were equivalently analyzed. The equivalent analysis and quantitative correlation of contaminants at the bottom of the GMBL/GCL/AL and GMBL/CCL/AL systems were considered according to the relative concentration (CN), instantaneous flux (JI) and accumulative flux (JA). The relative concentration (CN) was found to be the most conservative equivalent index. The thickness equivalent relation of the AL for the different composite liners was consequently obtained using the pure diffusion equivalent model and the advection–diffusion equivalent model. It was found that the pure diffusion thickness equivalent relationship was a simplified linear correlation and independent of time. The quadratic polynomial equivalent equations of AL thickness for different service times were obtained by the group method of data handling. The results showed that GCL-based composite liner had a better environmental protection performance than the CCL-based composite liner. When the thickness of the GMBL/CCL/AL composite liner was fixed, the corresponding equivalent thickness of AL in the GMBL/GCL/AL composite liner decreased with an increase in the leachate head and the wrinkle length for the same value of CN.
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H. Xie;
H. Xie
1Professor, Center for Balance Architecture, Zhejiang University, Hanghzou, China, E-mail: xiehaijian@zju.edu.cn
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W. Xu;
W. Xu
2Postgraduate, College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, E-mail: 22112095@zju.edu.cn
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L. Wang;
L. Wang
3Postgraduate, Center for Balance Architecture, Zhejiang University, Hanghzou, China, E-mail: leonwang0416@zju.edu.cn
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H. Yan;
H. Yan
4Research Fellow, College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, E-mail: yanhuaxiang@zju.edu.cn (corresponding author)
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J. Wu
J. Wu
5Research Fellow, Center for Balance Architecture, Zhejiang University, Hanghzou, China, E-mail: wujiawei@zju.edu.cn
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Received:
July 12 2023
Accepted:
October 30 2023
Online ISSN: 1751-7613
Print ISSN: 1072-6349
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Geosynthetics International (2024) 31 (6): 1022–1035.
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Received:
July 12 2023
Accepted:
October 30 2023
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Xie H, Xu W, Wang L, Yan H, Wu J (2024), "Equivalent analytical models for assessment of landfill composite liners". Geosynthetics International, Vol. 31 No. 6 pp. 1022–1035, doi: https://doi.org/10.1680/jgein.23.00117
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