垃圾填埋场防渗衬垫特性的离心模型试验与数值分析研究

垃圾填埋场中垃圾体和防渗土工膜的受力变形特性是普遍关心的问题,在现场试验尚无法获得满意的监测结果时,利用离心模型试验和有限元数值分析进行探讨性研究也是可以尝试的途径。通过离心模型试验研究和有限元计算,模拟了垃圾填埋场中填埋垃圾大变形条件下土工防渗膜的变形性状,在模型比率80的条件下,可以找到相应的模型材料来模拟实际工程中的土工膜;选用的防渗膜模拟材料和木屑土能较好地模拟垃圾填埋场中材料;邓肯-张模型和Goodman接触面模型能模拟垃圾土和土工膜以及界面的工作状态;土工膜中最大拉应力靠近坡肩,可达到极限抗拉强度的1/1.5倍;考虑到HDPE膜的抗拉安全,最大设计坡长应加以控制。     

土工膜穿刺性能的试验研究

垃圾填埋场底部和坡面都设置了防渗系统,阻止渗滤液流入地下,采用几种不同端部角度的贯入棒进行土工膜穿刺性能试验,研究了基础强度、土工膜种类和无纺布铺设与否对土工膜耐穿刺性能的影响。     

Design and placement considerations for clay and composite clay/geomembrane landfill final covers

The performance of clay and clay geosynthetic combinations for landfill barrier layers has not always proved predictable and the integration of geosynthetic materials into conventional landfill designs presents some interesting problems which were previously unforeseen.

This paper looks at identifying and mapping the approach to some specific considerations for clay and geomembrane/clay barriers. These considerations include: long-term performance of clay barriers, short-term and long-term stability of clay barriers, clay/geomembrane interface behavior, and the phenomena of moisture build-up beneath exposed membrane liners.     

应变硬化垃圾堆体抗局部沉陷研究

通过三种不同材料堆体的局部沉陷模型试验发现局部沉陷条件下应变硬化材料可能产生"自支撑"现象。利用模型试验和退化情况下的解析解验证了数值分析模型模拟应变硬化材料堆体局部沉陷问题的有效性。在此基础上比较了采用不同垃圾应力应变模型的分析结果,考虑堆体材料应变硬化的复合指数模型和线弹性模型计算得到的沉陷区土压力明显小于与之对应的摩尔-库伦模型计算结果,采用传统摩尔-库伦模型计算得到的沉陷区衬垫系统挠曲变形和应变值偏大,因而针对砂土材料的Giroud(1990)Trapdoor土拱效应理论应用于垃圾堆体局部沉陷分析时存在一定的局限性。进一步分析了各种参数对衬垫系统表面土压力和变形的影响,发现沉陷区衬垫系统最大挠度和最大应变随垃圾堆体高度的增加而增加,随垃圾堆体模量和加筋体刚度的增加而减小。最后提出应变硬化垃圾堆体在局部沉陷条件下衬垫系统土工膜的应变计算和加筋层的设计方法,对于垃圾填埋场衬垫系统抗局部沉陷设计具有一定的指导意义。     

Tension in geomembranes on landfill slopes under static and earthquake loading—Centrifuge study

Geomembranes are some of the most commonly used geosynthetics in landfill liner systems. Geomembranes may experience harsh environmental conditions such as extreme temperatures or earthquake loading. Earthquake loading can be an extreme loading case for landfills located in seismic regions. This study, based on dynamic centrifuge testing, investigates the effects of simulated earthquake loading on the tension experienced by the geomembrane on a landfill slope. The landfill modelled in the dynamic centrifuge tests was a 7 m high municipal solid waste (MSW) landfill with a single geomembrane-clay liner system (45° side slope and 10 m slope length). Results show that moderate earthquake loading (base acceleration between 0.1 and 0.3 g) can result in a permanent increase in geomembrane tension of 5–25%.     

Prefabricated bentonite clay liners

The development and use of prefabricated bentonite clay liners is a relatively recent development, even for a technology as young as geosynthetics. There are four currently available commercial products, each of which consists of essentially dry bentonite clay agglomerates (with or without a dry, but water soluble, adhesive) placed on a geotextile or geomembrane carrier layer. Often a covering geotextile is used above the clay, and for two of the products, the entire ‘sandwich’ is needled throughout.

For landfill liner systems, the major use of these materials appears to be as the lower component of a composite primary liner. This use is particularly interesting in the light of response action plans (RAPs) which are being required by many regulating agencies. For landfill closure systems, these materials can readily form the lower component of a composite cap system. Of interest here is their possible capacity to follow subsidence of the landfill and their ability to deform in an out-of-plane manner.

With the newness and potential of prefabricated bentonite clay liners, however, comes a number of questions. This paper attempts to present these questions and the currently available answers regarding the various products. In concludes by giving a number of suggestions and cautions for field placement based on the authors' experiences to date.     

HDPE土工膜端部张拉力的大规模实测数据分析

 垃圾填埋场边土工膜主要受到温度应力和垃圾压缩引起的张拉力的作用，为评价垃圾填埋场防渗系统中高密度聚乙烯(HDPE)土工膜的温度应力和垃圾填埋压缩引起的端部张拉力，以短纤维无纺布、HDPE土工膜组成防渗系统，进行大规模现场试验。试验结果表明：伴随环境温度的下降，HDPE土工膜中产生温度应力，当填埋高度较小时作用在HDPE土工膜端部的张拉力主要为温度应力；随着填埋高度的增加，压缩引起的HDPE土工膜端部张拉力增大。用有限元算法对压缩引起的端部张拉力进行分析，并采用温度与HDPE土工膜张拉力的关系对温度应力进行分析。计算结果与实测结果的对比情况表明，考虑填埋压缩引起的张拉力的应力松弛后计算结果更加接近实测结果。     

我国四类衬垫系统防污性能的比较分析

对我国填埋场采用的四类衬垫进行了防污性能的比较分析。评价参数包括渗漏率、污染物击穿时间及衬垫系统底部浓度值。除了2m压实黏土衬垫(CCL)外,其余3种均为包含土工膜(GM)的复合衬垫。分析模型采用了污染物通过有缺陷膜复合衬垫的一维运移解析解。以镉离子(Cd2+)为渗滤液中重金属离子的代表;以苯为其中挥发性有机污染物的代表。研究表明土工复合膨润土垫(GCL)复合衬垫的渗漏率最小,2m黏土最大,两者的差别可在3～5个数量级。GCL复合衬垫对重金属离子具有较好的防污性能,尤其是在高水头及复合衬垫接触较差的情形。厚度较大的2m黏土对挥发性有机污染物的防污性能较好,其击穿时间要比GCL复合衬垫大2～3个数量级。随着水头的增大,CCL复合衬垫的防污性能逐渐地优于2m黏土。在10m水头作用下,CCL复合衬垫底部的100年浓度可比2m黏土小近一个量级。单层膜衬垫的防污性能较差,不适合作为填埋场的衬垫系统。控制填埋场复合衬垫的施工质量和渗滤液水头尤为重要。     

HDPE土工膜在填埋场中的应用技术与施工工艺

本文分析了HDPE,即高密度级乙烯土工膜的特征,通过对比分析,结合国家对于填埋场中防渗材料的相关规定,深入介绍了HDPE土工膜在填埋场中的应用技术相关的施工注意事项。其中,HDPE 土工膜的选材及施工技术质量控制,对于保证防渗层使用可靠性具有极大的意义。     

垃圾填埋场土工合成材料界面摩擦特性的拉拔试验研究

土工合成材料与填料的界面特性是决定垃圾填埋场中衬垫系统与土工合成材料受力特性的重要因素。选择3种不同种类的土工合成材料,用砂土和黏土为填料,通过拉拔试验研究土工合成材料的界面特性。试验结果表明:界面的峰值剪切强度与峰值位移随着法向应力的增加而增加;土工合成材料与黏土之间的摩擦角较大;填料为砂土时,无纺布与填料间的摩擦角最大,EPDM次之,HDPE最小;当HDPE上下都铺无纺布时,界面的摩擦系数最小。     

兰州某垃圾填埋场场地岩土工程条件评价及防渗处理方案建议

通过对垃圾填埋场场地岩土工程条件的分析,对垃圾填埋场拟采用的防渗方案进行了比选,提出了粘土铺盖加HDPE（高密度聚乙稀）防渗膜的综合防渗方案,对同类工程防渗设计具有参考意义。     

Landfill side slope lining system performance: A comparison of field measurements and numerical modelling analyses

Low permeability engineered landfill barriers often consist of a combination of geosynthetics and mineral layers. Even though numerical modelling software is applied during the landfill design process, a lack of data about mechanical performance of landfill barriers is available to validate and calibrate those models. Instrumentation has been installed on a landfill site to monitor multilayer landfill lining system physical performance. The lining system comprises of a compacted clay layer overlaid by high density polyethylene geomembrane, geotextile and sand. Data recorded on the site includes: geosynthetic displacements (extensometers), strains (fibre optics, Demec strain gauges, extensometers) and stresses imposed on the liner (pressure cells). In addition, temperature readings were collected by a logger installed at the surface of the geomembrane, at the clay surface using pressure cell thermistors and air temperature using a thermometer. This paper presents readings collected throughout a period of three years and compares this measured performance with the corresponding numerical modelling of the lining system for stages during construction. Numerical modelling predictions of lining system behaviour during construction are comparable with the measurements when the geosynthetics are covered soon after placement, however, where the geosynthetics are left exposed to the sun for an extended period of time, in situ behaviour of the geosynthetics cannot be replicated by the numerical analysis. This study highlights the significant influence of the effect of temperature on geosynthetics displacements. A simple thermal analysis of the exposed geosynthetics is used to support the explanation for observed behaviour.     

Geomembrane strains from wrinkle deformations

Methods to compute geomembrane strains caused by the deformation of a geomembrane wrinkle when subject to vertical overburden stress are examined. Thin shell theory, small strain-displacement, and large strain-displacement methods are developed to compute geomembrane strains from wrinkle deformations. The implementation of each method is validated for three hypothetical trial cases against results obtained with finite element analysis. It was found that it is necessary to employ large strain-displacement theory and explicitly consider both vertical and horizontal components of wrinkle displacement to compute strain. Results are then presented from six physical experiments where the vertical and horizontal components of wrinkle displacement were measured under simulated landfill base liner conditions. For the particular conditions tested, it was found that without a thick sand protection layer on top of the geomembrane, the largest calculated tensile strain due to wrinkle deformations of 8% was much less than the tensile strain caused by overlying gravel particles, and thus local strains from gravel contacts would govern in the assessment of maximum geomembrane strain; whereas, with a thick sand protection, the maximum tensile strain was from wrinkle deformations, but the measured values were below a proposed long-term allowable strain of 3%.     

土工膜破坏原因分析及防治措施

为了防止雨水流入垃圾中形成的渗滤液等多种有害物质流入地下污染地下水以及周围环境,现代垃圾填埋场都设置了防渗系统.防渗系统一般由无纺布、防渗材料以及膨润土土工毯等组成,由于在热应力、拉应力以及穿刺等各种因素的作用下,可能导致防渗系统破坏而使有害物质流入地下.介绍了造成防渗系统破坏的原因及其防治措施.     

Shear strength of landfill liner interface in the case of varying normal stress

Landfills are sequentially filled by solid waste lifts, thus normal stress on the liner interface changes in different shear stages, which may affect selection of interface strength in landfill slope stability analysis. Shear tests were conducted at the liner interfaces of geomembrane/geotextile (GM/GT) and geomembrane/geocomposite/sand (GM/GC/Sand), and the normal stress changed in different shear stages. Values of friction angles on both the GM/GT and GM/GC/Sand interfaces obtained by direct and simple shear tests under increasing normal stress in the hardening, softening, and large-displacement stages were lower than those obtained by the traditional direct shear test. The reduction was greater for peak friction angles. Since the peak liner interface strength obtained by staged loading is lower than the peak interface strength by using the traditional shear test method, using the peak shear strength obtained from the traditional direct shear test for the base floor liner to conduct slope stability analysis may cause an un-conservative result. It is necessary to consider the effects of normal stress changes on the liner interface strength in landfill slope stability analysis.     

Investigation of geomembrane destructive field seam test failures: Landfill cover

A General Contractor (through their counsel) retained GeoSystems Consultants, Inc. and I-Corp International, Inc. (through their counsel) to investigate the merits of their subcontractor's (installer's) contention that a large number of seam failures associated with the installation of a textured high-density, polyethylene (HDPE-T) geomembrane on a latter phase (10 ha) of an ongoing closure of an eastern Pennsylvania landfill was caused by the presence of BTEX (benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylene) vapours off-gassing from the landfill. In addition, we were requested to review project field seam data and to examine field seam samples to determine the probable causes of the seam weld failures.     

Damage to geomembrane liners from tire derived aggregate

Tire derived aggregate (TDA) is currently being used as a cost-effective substitute for gravel in landfill leachate collection systems. TDA is composed of tires that have been shredded into pieces. However, the particles often contain a small portion of high risk protruding wires that may puncture a geomembrane placed below the TDA. The chance that these wires puncture is a function of the number of wires present in a sample, how the particles land, and the efficiency of the protection layer to prevent punctures. Using heavier nonwoven geotextile protection layers with larger size TDA and thicker geomembranes, the number of punctures may be expected to be fewer than 20 per hectare for the materials tested in this study. A second component to long term geomembrane performance is the presence of localised zones of high strain resulting from the point loading on the geomembrane. The strain resulting from TDA was found to be less than the strain which occurred from gravel using the same protection layers. It is concluded that, for different reasons, gravel and TDA both require effective protection layers of soil or heavy nonwoven geotextile to ensure long-term performance.     

Contaminant mitigating performance of Chinese standard municipal solid waste landfill liner systems

In 2004, Chinese Government prescribed standard municipal solid waste (MSW) landfill bottom liners. However, very limited research has been conducted to evaluate the performance of the standard MSW landfill bottom liners prescribed by the Chinese Government. In this paper, the performance of the two types of Chinese MSW landfill bottom liner systems was evaluated based on: (1) the maximum leachate head; (2) leakage rate; (3) peak concentration of the target contaminant in an aquifer which was underlain the assumed landfill, and (4) total mass per unit area of the target contaminant discharged into the aquifer. The performance of the German standard MSW landfill bottom liner system was evaluated and compared with that of Chinese ones. It is found that the calculated maximum leachate head for the Chinese landfill liner systems was much higher than that for the German one. The calculated leakage rate, peak concentration and the maximum total mass per unit area in the aquifer of the target contaminant show that the performance of the Chinese standard landfill liner Type 2 is practically the same as that of the German standard landfill liner with holed geomembrane wrinkles, while the Chinese standard liner Type 1 is less effective, with regarding the mitigation of the impact of landfills to the groundwater quality. It is concluded that the overall performance of the Chinese standard landfill liner systems is less strict than that of the German standard landfill liner system.     

Shear strength of geosynthetic composite systems for design of landfill liner and cover slopes

Torsional ring shear tests were performed on composite specimens that simulate the field alignment of municipal solid waste (MSW) landfill liner and cover system components. Simultaneous shearing was provided to each test specimen without forcing failure to occur through a pre-determined plane. Composite liner specimens consisted of a textured geomembrane (GM) underlain by a needle-punched geosynthetic clay liner (GCL) which in turn underlain by a compacted silty clay. Hydrated specimens were sheared at eleven different normal stress levels. Test results revealed that shear strength of the composite liner system can be controlled by different failure modes depending on the magnitude of normal stress and the comparative values of the GCL interface and internal shear strength. Failure following these modes may result in a bilinear or trilinear peak strength envelope and a corresponding stepped residual strength envelope. Composite cover specimens that comprised textured GM placed on unreinforced smooth GM-backed GCL resting on compacted sand were sheared at five different GCL hydration conditions and a normal stress that is usually imposed on MSW landfill cover geosynthetic components. Test results showed that increasing the GCL hydration moves the shearing plane from the GCL smooth GM backing/sand interface to that of the textured GM/hydrated bentonite. Effects of these interactive shear strength behaviors of composite liner and cover system components on the possibility of developing progressive failure in landfill slopes were discussed. Recommendations for designing landfill geosynthetic-lined slopes were subsequently given. Three-dimensional stability analysis of well-documented case history of failed composite system slope was presented to support the introduced results and recommendations.     

Geogrid reinforcement in landfill closures

This paper illustrates the use of geogrids in landfill closures from the perspective of both cover soil stability and subsidence-induced liner support. Both applications have as their objective the avoidance, or at least the minimization, of tensile stresses in the geomembrane. Case histories regarding each application are provided.

The important design consideration of long-term allowable strength of geogrids is also addressed. Factors such as geogrid creep, installation damage, chemical degradation, biological degradation and structural connections are discussed since all should be considered in arriving at a proper allowable design strength.