Evaluation of the geotechnical properties of MSW in two Brazilian landfills

Waste Management

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2579-2591

  Machado, Sandro Lemos ^a   Karimpour Fard, Mehran ^b   Shariatmadari, Nader ^b   Carvalho, Miriam Fatima ^c   Nascimento, Julio C F do ^d  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

^b IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^c Universidade Catolica de Salvador   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPOSAL FACILITIES; GAS COLLECTION SYSTEMS; GEOTECHNICAL; GEOTECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS; GEOTECHNICAL PROPERTIES; LANDFILL SLOPE; LANDFILL STRUCTURE; LEACHATES; LOCAL COMMUNITY; LOCAL CONDITIONS; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; ORGANIC CONTENT; OVERALL STABILITIES; STABILITY EVALUATION; STRENGTH PARAMETERS; WASTE DISPOSAL FACILITIES; WASTE MECHANICS;

LEACHATE TREATMENT; LEACHING; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; SHEAR STRENGTH; SOLID WASTES;

REFUSE DISPOSAL;

GEOTECHNICAL PROPERTY; LANDFILL; LEACHATE; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; PHYSICAL PROPERTY; STABILITY ANALYSIS; WASTE DISPOSAL;

ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; BRAZIL; DENSITY GRADIENT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LANDFILL; LANDFILL LEACHATE; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; PARTICLE SIZE; PERMEABILITY; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; SHEAR STRENGTH; SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTENT;

BRAZIL; CITIES; GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PARTICLE SIZE; PERMEABILITY; REFUSE DISPOSAL; WASTE PRODUCTS;

BRAZIL;

EID: 77957673650     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2010.07.019     Document Type: Article

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