Bentonite swelling pressure in NaCl solutions - Experimentally determined data and model calculations

Advances in Understanding Engineered Clay Barriers - Proceedings of the International Symposium on Large Scale Field Tests in Granite

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 241-256

  Karnland, O ^a   Muurinen, A ^b   Karlsson, F ^c  

^a CLAY TECHNOLOGY AB   (Sweden)

^b VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^c SWEDISH NUCLEAR FUEL AND WASTE MANAGEMENT CO   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKFILL MATERIAL; BENTONITE CLAY; BUFFER MATERIALS; DIRECT MEASUREMENT; DONNAN EQUILIBRIUM; DRY DENSITY; EXTERNAL SOLUTIONS; GAS CONSTANTS; HIGH SWELLING; IN-SITU; LOW PERMEABILITY; MODEL APPROACH; MODEL CALCULATIONS; MODEL DATA; NACL CONCENTRATION; NACL SOLUTION; NUCLEAR WASTE REPOSITORIES; PARTIAL SPECIFIC VOLUMES; PORE WATERS; PURE WATER; SALINE CONDITIONS; SALT SOLUTION; SEALING EFFECT; SODIUM CHLORIDE SOLUTION; SPENT NUCLEAR FUELS; SWELLING CAPACITIES; SWELLING PRESSURES; SWELLING TEST; THERMODYNAMIC MODEL; WATER ACTIVITY; WATER SOLUTIONS; WYOMING;

BENTONITE; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GRANITE; ION EXCHANGE; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

SWELLING;

EID: 84855206823     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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