June 25th, 2007 by admin
We will occasionally post capping design information on this blog. We hope that you will find these posts interesting.
To guarantee a landfill cap which will drain adequately and for effective gas collection, the landfill cap should incorporate a drainage layer above and preferably also, a gas collection layer below the cap’s low permeability lining system.
The geosyntheic “Pozidrain” may [...]
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June 24th, 2007 by admin
A question for landfill construction quality assurance engineers which arises regularly is whether they should use Triaxial Compression Testing or Direct Shear Testing.
Well although triaxial compression testing is the most frequently used small scale direct shear testing does have certain advanatges and can be appropriate under certian circumstances.
There is an interesting dicussion of this issue at the Engineering-Tips [...]
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June 21st, 2007 by admin
We have been asked where the necessary skills can be obtained for Landfill Construction Quality Assurance work.
The core skill needed for Landfill CQA is an good appreciation of soils mechanics, as most of the CQA work relates to civil engineering earthworks, so a good grounding comes from the Soils Mechanics tought within any practically based Civil Engineering [...]
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