Predicted performance of clay-barrier landfill covers in arid and semi-arid environments

Waste Management

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 572-583

  Sadek, S ^a   Ghanimeh, S ^a   El Fadel, M ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLAY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDRAULICS; INFILTRATION; MUNICIPAL ENGINEERING; SOLID WASTES;

LANDFILL COVERS; LANDFILLED WASTE; SEMI-ARID ENVIRONMENTS;

LAND FILL;

CLAY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDRAULICS; INFILTRATION; LAND FILL; MUNICIPAL ENGINEERING; SOLID WASTES;

ARID ENVIRONMENT; CLAY; CONTAINMENT BARRIER; LANDFILL CAPPING; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; NUMERICAL METHOD; SEMIARID REGION;

ARTICLE; CLAY; DESERT; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; LANDFILL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PERFORMANCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION;

ALUMINUM SILICATES; DESERT CLIMATE; DESICCATION; FORECASTING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFUSE DISPOSAL; SEASONS; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 33846254548     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2006.06.008     Document Type: Article

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