Location
Arlington, Virginia
Date
13 Aug 2008, 1:30 pm - 2:15 pm
Abstract
Documented case histories are perhaps even more essential to the practice of landfill engineering than to other aspects of geotechnical practice. Case histories are particularly important to landfill engineering because of difficulties in sampling and testing representative materials and the non-homogeneous nature of many landfills. Case histories play an essential role in the evaluation of static and dynamic properties of waste, in identifying potential performance problems and failure mechanisms, and in demonstrating that laboratory interface shear testing can be relied upon to predict field behavior of liner and cover systems. Case histories have proven to be essential in establishing appropriate values for municipal solid waste unit weight and shear strength as well as its stiffness and hysteretic damping under cyclic loads. A case history helped establish the importance of interface shear strength to the stability of lined landfills and two recent case histories have identified landfill gas-pore water pressure interaction as a potential failure mechanism in wet landfills. Case histories also play an important role in facilitating the post-closure development of landfill sites, a sustainable development practice, by demonstrating that closed landfill sites can be put to beneficial reuse while protecting human health, protecting and in many cases enhancing the environment, and providing social benefits.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
6th Conference of the International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering
Publisher
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 2008 Missouri University of Science and Technology, 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
Kavazanjian, Edward Jr., "The Indispensable Role of Case Histories in Landfill Engineering" (2008). International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering. 6.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icchge/6icchge/session12/6
The Indispensable Role of Case Histories in Landfill Engineering
Arlington, Virginia
Documented case histories are perhaps even more essential to the practice of landfill engineering than to other aspects of geotechnical practice. Case histories are particularly important to landfill engineering because of difficulties in sampling and testing representative materials and the non-homogeneous nature of many landfills. Case histories play an essential role in the evaluation of static and dynamic properties of waste, in identifying potential performance problems and failure mechanisms, and in demonstrating that laboratory interface shear testing can be relied upon to predict field behavior of liner and cover systems. Case histories have proven to be essential in establishing appropriate values for municipal solid waste unit weight and shear strength as well as its stiffness and hysteretic damping under cyclic loads. A case history helped establish the importance of interface shear strength to the stability of lined landfills and two recent case histories have identified landfill gas-pore water pressure interaction as a potential failure mechanism in wet landfills. Case histories also play an important role in facilitating the post-closure development of landfill sites, a sustainable development practice, by demonstrating that closed landfill sites can be put to beneficial reuse while protecting human health, protecting and in many cases enhancing the environment, and providing social benefits.
