Unsaturated consolidation theory for the prediction of long-term municipal solid waste landfill settlement

Waste Management and Research

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 80-91

  Liu, Chia Nan ^a   Chen, Rong Her ^b   Chen, Kuo Sheng ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHI NAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Biodegradation process; Long term landfill settlement; Mechanical settlement; Unsaturated consolidation theory; Wmr 819 1

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION; CONSOLIDATION; DECOMPOSITION; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SOLID WASTES;

LANDFILL SETTLEMENT; MECHANICAL SETTLEMENT; UNSATURATED CONSOLIDATION THEORY;

LAND FILL;

BIODEGRADATION; CONSOLIDATION; DECOMPOSITION; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; LAND FILL; SOLID WASTES;

BIODEGRADATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; DECOMPOSITION; GAS; LANDFILL; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT; THEORY;

AIR MOVEMENTS; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GASES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PRESSURE; REFUSE DISPOSAL;

EID: 33646228418     PISSN: 0734242X     EISSN: 10963669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0734242X06062579     Document Type: Article

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