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Overburden effects on waste compaction and leachate generation in municipal landfills
capacity, and precipitation in determining the leachate
compaction associated with these force, and the elements are
constructed by Beck (1994). Both the leachate production and
deflected accordingly. The model is designed to be
Empirical relationships are then used to calculate a level of
incorporated with a previously constructed gas generation and
It incorporates the effects of gas generation, field
leachate model is based on a mass balance on water, expressed
leachate through the landfill. The compaction routine
movement simulation, known as GasPro, which was developed by
municipal solid waste landfills. In addition, it estimates
overburden pressure on the formation of leachate within
produced within each element. The model then migrates this
sensitive to the sequence in which the waste material was
Stallard (1990) and an automatic gridding and filling scheme
the compaction and subsequent settlement that the waste will
the waste compaction portions of the model were found to be
This thesis presents a model to predict the effects of
undergo due to the force of material placed above it. The
utilizes Elastic Theory analysis to determine the forces
which exist within the landfill due to overburden pressure.
within finite elements constructed throughout the landfill.