Alternative Title
Paper No. 10.12
Location
St. Louis, Missouri
Date
12 Mar 1998, 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Abstract
Settlement prediction of solid waste landfills is important for their post-closure operation. Estimation of settlement of refuse is complex because of the mechanism of settlement and heterogeneity of the refuse. Several methods are available to predict the settlement of solid waste landfills. Based on the analysis of published measured data of four landfills, a unique relationship was recently developed between reference compressibility and rate of compression to predict refuse settlement using Power Creep Law. A step-by-step procedure is proposed to predict refuse settlement by using the Power Creep Law at a site for which the data from laboratory or field tests are not available. Settlement-time relationships predicted using the proposed procedure are compared with actual recorded data from landfills. Predictions show good agreement with the measured settlements.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
4th Conference of the International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering
Publisher
University of Missouri--Rolla
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 1998 University of Missouri--Rolla, All rights reserved.
Creative Commons Licensing
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
File Type
text
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Kumar, Sanjeev, "Procedure to Predict Settlement of Solid Waste Landfills Using Power Creep Law" (1998). International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering. 8.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icchge/4icchge/4icchge-session10/8
Procedure to Predict Settlement of Solid Waste Landfills Using Power Creep Law
St. Louis, Missouri
Settlement prediction of solid waste landfills is important for their post-closure operation. Estimation of settlement of refuse is complex because of the mechanism of settlement and heterogeneity of the refuse. Several methods are available to predict the settlement of solid waste landfills. Based on the analysis of published measured data of four landfills, a unique relationship was recently developed between reference compressibility and rate of compression to predict refuse settlement using Power Creep Law. A step-by-step procedure is proposed to predict refuse settlement by using the Power Creep Law at a site for which the data from laboratory or field tests are not available. Settlement-time relationships predicted using the proposed procedure are compared with actual recorded data from landfills. Predictions show good agreement with the measured settlements.
