Document Type
Thesis - University Access Only
Award Date
1994
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Department / School
Civil Engineering
First Advisor
Vernon R. Schaefer
Abstract
Over the past few decades increased public attention and concern has been focused on waste disposal. Historical practices included disposal in un-engineered dumps, which threatened human health and the environment and sparked an evolution in disposal facility engineering beginning in the 1950's and continuing to the present. As regulations were passed to protect the environment, disposal facilities transformed from dumps to engineered landfills. Increasingly, compacted clay has been used as a liner to separate waste from natural ground. Wet-dry cycling, resulting in crack formation in compacted clay, is commonly experienced during liner construction and throughout the lifetime of a disposal facility cover. Laboratory tests show that wet-dry cycling leads to increases in hydraulic conductivity of as much as two orders of magnitude. Moreover, hydraulic conductivity of samples compacted at optimum moisture content increase significantly more due to wet-dry cycling than samples compacted three percent wet of optimum moisture content.
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Clay soils -- Permeability -- Testing
Clay soils -- Drying
Sanitary landfills -- Linings
Format
application/pdf
Publisher
South Dakota State University
Recommended Citation
Duncan, Donald Joseph II, "The Effects of Permeameter Size and Wet-Dry Cycling on the Hydraulic Conductivity of Compacted Clay" (1994). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 84.
https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/etd2/84
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