It is very important to the design and development of
natural isolating materials Which are used in the cover-up of solid waste landfill, clay soils or mixtures of these soils and some
additions used as an impermeable liner for construction of soli
d
waste landfill, The permeability coefficient of the materials used in the impermeable system is the most important factors to prevent water leakage into the body of landfill site and to prevent the Leachate of leak into groundwater and soil surrounding the landfillsites.
In this research has been the development and design
Oedometer cell to study volumetric distortions occurring in these
soils as a result of exposure of these soils to climatic conditions
during the implementation of impermeable layer or after
implementation due to rising temperatures in landfill because of
biological interactions taking place at these landfill.
It has been modified and the development of Oedometer
cell to become a thermal cell So that it can control the degree of
heat applied to the sample in the ring of device and then measure the volumetric changes in the sample, Oedometer cell has been linked to the permeability test system with variable head to measure the permeability of the testing sample, It was connected with the digital control , measuring and showing system for temperature and load and displacement.
In this study, the effect of temperature on volume strains in three
types of local clay soils was studied after adding different percentages of
sand for each soil (10%-20%-30%40%-50%) when temperatures change
from (20-60)° C to be used as liners i
n solid waste landfill sites . The
results of the study showed that the mixing of sand with the clay played a
key role in reducing the magnitude of volume strains between (24-27%)
of the value of strains.
This study investigated the effect of adding different
percentages of sand to several types of clay soils, Which used as
liners at solid waste landfill sites in order to find the best mixing
ratio (sand - clay).
