Evaluation of the performance of a multi-layer Landfill side slope insulation system under external hydrostatic loading

Document Type : Research Note

Authors

1 civil engineering, shahid bahonar university of Kerman, Iran

2 F‌a‌c‌u‌l‌t‌y o‌f C‌i‌v‌i‌l E‌n‌g‌i‌n‌e‌e‌r‌i‌n‌g S‌h‌a‌h‌i‌d B‌a‌h‌o‌n‌a‌r U‌n‌i‌v‌e‌r‌s‌i‌t‌y

Abstract

Unscientific waste control and using inflamed masks and gloves in municipal garbage represent a risk of an outbreak. Furthermore, in growing nations, pollutants of the surroundings and groundwater have raised the call for landfills to decrease pandemic risk. Alternatively, municipal strong waste landfill barrier structures regularly contain an aggregate of geosynthetics and mineral layers. Throughout the last 20 years, there were full-size studies on the interactions among the substances and on the overall performance of the geosynthetics consisting of components of durability. This study has led to giant advances in the layout and specification of landfill lining structures. Although many numerical modeling applications are implemented to assess lining system stability and integrity, records to validate those models are presently limited. This paper highlights the records required to validate numerical models and instrumentation strategies that can be used to accumulate this information imposed at the liner (stress cells). The use of numerical analysis to analyze the stability and integrity of landfill liner systems has increased popularity over the last three decades. Internal landfill pressures, on the other hand, are emphasized by the majority of them. The presence of water flows behind the landfill side slope was investigated in four height level codes. The results are compared to on-site landfill data in order to validate the numerical model. This case study is the Miligate dump in the United Kingdom. The Finite Element (FE) model in three dimensions is used. To improve the accuracy of the study, the interfaces and properties of the materials were chosen from the experimental results. The findings revealed that a lining system with a water level up to 3/4 of the side slope was immune to failure, but that when the side slope was filled with respect to the full height, the geomembrane would be ripped.

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