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Landfill capping stability: tapered solution with seepage

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posted on 2013-07-11, 13:46 authored by Bo Zhang, Gary Fowmes, D. Russell V. Jones
The capping system is one of the major structural elements in modern landfills. When using artificial sealing materials (e.g. a geomembrane) as the capping liner, the stability of the cover soils and integrity of the geosynthethics need to be assessed. Traditional design methods only consider uniform cover soil thickness with different degrees of saturation and seepage build-up (i.e. parallel submergency ratio). This paper proposes an analytical method which includes the seepage build-up in the stability analysis for the capping slope with a tapered cover soil profile, that is when cover soils become thicker from top to bottom. Both the parallel (modified) and horizontal seepage force build-up patterns have been considered and analysed. The proposed analytical methods are applied to a design case in which uniform thickness cover soils are considered. The results are comparable to those of the traditional methods and therefore they are verified. Parametric analyses have confirmed the tapered profile can effectively improve the capping slope stability and indicated that the interface shear strength (between the cover soil and the underlying geosynthetic) and cover soil shear strength have the most significant effects on the capping slope stability.

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  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

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ZHANG, B., FOWMES, G. and JONES, D.R.V., 2012. Landfill capping stability: tapered solution with seepage. Proceedings of Institution of Civil Engineers: Waste and Resource Management, 165 (3), pp.141-149.

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© ICE Publishing Ltd.

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  • VoR (Version of Record)

Publication date

2012

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This article was published in the Proceedings of the ICE - Waste and Resource Management [© ICE Publishing]. Permission is granted by ICE Publishing to print one copy for personal use. Any other use of these PDF files is subject to reprint fees. The definitive version is also available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1680/warm.11.00007

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1747-6526

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1747-6534

Language

  • en

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