Relative abundance of monovalent and divalent cations and the impact of desiccation on geosynthetic clay liners

Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering

Volumn 135, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 349-358

  Benson, Craig H ^a   Meer, Stephen R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Sigma Environmental Services Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Clay liners; Geosynthetics; Hydraulic conductivity; Landfill

Indexed keywords

BENTONITE; GEOSYNTHETIC MATERIALS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; IONIC STRENGTH; IONIZATION OF LIQUIDS; LAND FILL; POSITIVE IONS; SOILS; WASTE DISPOSAL; WATER; WATER ANALYSIS;

CLAY LINERS; COVER SOILS; DIVALENT CATIONS; GEOSYNTHETIC CLAY LINERS; GEOSYNTHETICS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MOLARITY; MONOVALENT CATIONS; MULTIVALENT CATIONS; PORE WATERS; RATE OF CHANGES; RELATIVE ABUNDANCES; SQUARE ROOTS; SWELL INDICES; SWELLING CAPACITIES; TEST SOLUTIONS; WET-DRY CYCLES; WET-DRY CYCLING;

CLAY MINERALS;

CATION; CATION EXCHANGE CAPACITY; CLAY LINER; DESICCATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GEOSYNTHETICS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; LABORATORY METHOD; LANDFILL; SWELLING;

EID: 60649094109     PISSN: 10900241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1090-0241(2009)135:3(349)     Document Type: Article

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