... compressibility has yet to be investigated. Temperature enhancement is well-known in landfill engineering, mainly when the bioreactor philosophy is employed. The generated heat gradients affect the solid particles and fluid phases. As a result, the mechanical response of MSW will be different compared...

.... If a load of 400 kPa were to be applied onto the TDA mass to simulate approximately 35 m to 40 m of overlying material (waste and routinely applied cover materials) in an application such as a landfill, the test apparatus must be capable of delivering over 150 kN of applied load. Furthermore...

...Ramil G. Mijares; Milind V. Khire; Terry Johnson This paper presents the design, construction, and monitoring of two uncompacted and one compacted clay field-scale test sections that were built and instrumented at a landfill near Detroit (Michigan). This was accomplished to capture the differences...

...Joseph Scalia, IV; Craig H. Benson Hydraulic conductivity tests were performed on geosynthetic clay liners (GCLs) exhumed from composite barriers (i.e., geomembrane over GCL) in four landfill covers using three dilute permeant waters: type II deionized water (DW), 0.01 M CaCl 2 (so called “standard...

...Sreeram Jonnalagadda; Dinesh Kumar; Pradeep Jain; Nitin Gawande; Timothy G. Townsend; Debra R. Reinhart Instruments that can monitor the in situ moisture content of landfilled waste would be of great benefit to landfill operators, especially those operating their facilities as bioreactor landills...

...KR Reddy; RE Saichek This paper presents the results of a field and laboratory study performed to assess damage to the geomembrane liner caused by using shredded scrap tires as a leachate drainage layer material in landfills. The field testing was performed to assess the damage that occurred...

...MA Gabr; SN Valero A geotechnical testing program was conducted to evaluate the engineering properties of aged solid waste samples retrieved from a landfill that began accepting waste as early as 1940. The conducted tests included water content, specific gravity, Atterberg limits, grain-size...

...CH Benson; PJ Bosscher; DT Lane; RJ Pliska Three test sections were constructed and instrumented to assess the hydrologic behavior of earthen final covers at two municipal solid waste landfills. A traditional design using a “resistive barrier” was used for two of the test sections, whereas...

.... soils compaction hydraulic conductivity compacted soil compatibility municipal waste combustion leachate pore volume landfill electrical conductivity double-ring permeameter monofill References Albrecht , K. A. and Cartwright , K. , 1989 , “ Infiltration and Hydraulic...