...Bahador Yazdanpour; Mehran Karimpour-Fard; Mohsen Sabermahani; Sandro Lemos Machado ABSTRACT The mechanical response of municipal solid waste (MSW) under different types of loading and testing conditions has been explored by many researchers. However, the effect of temperature on MSW...

...B. P. Naveen; P. V. Sivapullaiah; T. G. Sitharam To predict the rate of settlement of municipal solid waste specimens (MSW), it is essential to estimate the value of the coefficient of consolidation ( Cv ) using laboratory consolidation test results. Literature suggests that the various empirical...

... diameter DSS device as well as test data generated for two materials with oversized particles, specifically pea gravel and municipal solid waste, are presented. The device has the capability to execute shear wave velocity measurements using both bender elements and accelerometers, as well as monotonic...

...Xunchang Fei; Dimitrios Zekkos; Lutgarde Raskin Municipal solid waste (MSW) is biodegradable in landfills under anaerobic conditions. The biodegradation of MSW consists of physical and biochemical processes that affect the geotechnical characteristics of the waste. Laboratory landfill simulators...

...) are identified. Specimens are reconstituted at varying fibrous waste orientations using a custom-made specimen preparation split mold. Tests on soil-waste mixtures with waste fibrous constituents, i.e., paperboard, plastic and wood, commonly encountered in municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills are performed...

... in the hydraulic and hydrologic responses of actual caps overlying the municipal solid waste (MSW) versus the corresponding lysimeters. While the lysimeter pans were installed in the middle of each of the three test sections to measure percolation, the instrumented area of the test section was expanded upslope...

...N Indrasenan Thusyanthan; SP Gopal Madabhushi; S Singh This paper presents the use of the model waste developed in the companion paper, “Centrifuge modeling of solid waste landfill systems—Part 1: Development of a model municipal solid waste,” in centrifuge testing. Two centrifuge tests were...

...N Indrasenan Thusyanthan; SP Gopal Madabhushi; S Singh This paper presents the development of a model waste that has physical properties similar to those reported by investigators for municipal solid waste (MSW). The model waste was developed using a mixture of peat, E-grade kaolin clay...

...P Simonini; M De Ronch The difficulty in laboratory testing of highly heterogeneous municipal solid waste (MSW) may suggest an investigation of the influence of different stress/strain/drainage conditions, and use of an analogical equivalent medium such as assemblies of expanded polystyrene (EPS...

...SA Pelkey; AJ Valsangkar; A Landva A limited amount of data exist on the shear strength properties of municipal solid waste. Similar to the soil strength parameters, the data on wastes are reported in terms of a cohesion intercept and an angle of internal friction. Most often the strength...