Landfill capping · 2026
Leakage through waste covers with small geomembrane wrinkles
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Research overview
Two full-scale cover sections and a calibrated three-dimensional seepage model quantify leakage through a hole in a 0.15 mm flexible vapour-barrier geomembrane with and without small crossed wrinkles. A single 115 mm storm dominated the monitored leakage, and wrinkles increased water storage above the hole; the thin test membrane, cover soil, slope, hole and wrinkle geometry limit transfer to typical 1–2 mm HDPE or LLDPE covers, and part of the interrupted record was reconstructed numerically.
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- Authors
- Felix Y. H. Fan, R. Kerry Rowe, Richard W. I. Brachman, J. Van Gulck
- Publication year
- 2026
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.geotexmem.2026.03.002
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- Full text at the original publisher or institutional repository.
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- CC BY-NC 4.0 ↗
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