An investigation into the use of blends of two bentonites for geosynthetic clay liners

Geotextiles and Geomembranes

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 436-445

  Andrejkovičová, Slávka ^a   Rocha, Fernando ^b   Janotka, Ivan ^c   Komadel, Peter ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUTE OF CONSTRUCTION AND ARCHITECTURE   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Coefficient of permeability; Enslin test; Geotechnical properties; Infrared spectroscopy; Water adsorption capacity; X ray diffraction

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; BENTONITE; CALCIUM; CLAY; GEOSYNTHETIC MATERIALS; IRON; SILICATE MINERALS;

COEFFICIENT OF PERMEABILITY; ENSLIN TEST; GEOSYNTHETIC CLAY LINERS; GEOTECHNICAL PARAMETERS; GEOTECHNICAL PROPERTIES; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; SLOVAKIA; SMECTITE; WATER ADSORPTION CAPACITY; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

CLAY MINERALS;

BENTONITE; CLAY LINER; GEOSYNTHETICS; PERMEABILITY; SEALING; SMECTITE; SOIL REINFORCEMENT;

ADSORPTION; CLAY LINER; PERMEABILITY;

EID: 50049085782     PISSN: 02661144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geotexmem.2008.01.001     Document Type: Article

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