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Geosynthetic Clay Liners for Waste Containment Facilities book cover

1st Edition

Geosynthetic Clay Liners for Waste Containment Facilities

By Abdelmalek Bouazza, Jr. Bowders Copyright 2010
254 Pages
by CRC Press

254 Pages 166 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

Increasingly stringent regulation of pollution and waste production worldwide drives the need to isolate contaminants that pose a threat to human and environmental health by using engineered barrier systems involving the use of low permeable materials. Over the past two decades, geosynthetic clay liners have gained widespread acceptance for use in such barrier systems. They are often used as a... Read more

1. Background and Overview of Geosynthetic Clay Liners  2. Durability and Lifetime of the Geotextile Fibres of Geosynthetic Clay Liners  3. Mineralogy and Engineering Properties of Bentonite  4. Hydraulic Conductivity of Geosynthetic Clay Liners  5. Contaminant Transport Through GCL-based Liner Systems  6. Chemico-osmosis and Solute Transport Through Geosynthetic Clay Liners  7. Gas Permeability of Geosynthetic Clay Liners  8. Internal and Interface Shear Strength of Geosynthetic Clay Liners  9. Slope Stability with Geosynthetic Clay Liners  10. Hydrologic Performance of Final Covers Containing  11. Oxygen Diffusion Through Geosynthetic Clay Liners  12. Field Observations of GCL Behaviour

Biography

Abdelmalek Bouazza, John J. Bowders Jr.

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