Membrane Behavior of Soil-Bentonite膨润土的膜行为 泥浆槽防渗墙.pdfVIP

Soil Sediment Contamination, 17:316–322, 2008 Copyright © Taylor Francis Group, LLC ISSN: 1532-0383 print / 1549-7887 online DOI: 10.1080/15320380802143880 Membrane Behavior of Soil-Bentonite Slurry-Trench Cutoff Walls JEFFREY C. EVANS,1 CHARLES D. SHACKELFORD,2 SANG-SIK YEO,3 AND JOHN HENNING4 1Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, USA 2Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA 3Geosyntec Consultants, San Diego, CA, USA 4Dawood Engineering, Canonsburg, PA, USA Investigations of membrane behavior in bentonite-based soil-bentonite (SB) backfills used in vertical cutoff walls for waste containment and site remediation have yielded encouraging results. Laboratory investigations using model soil-bentonite materials as well as samples obtained during slurry wall construction have been tested for membrane behavior. The results indicate that two model backfills, a natural clay with 89% fines and a mixture of clean sand with 5% by weight of dry sodium bentonite, act as semi- permeable membranes. The chemico-osmotic efficiency coefficients, ω, for the natural clay range from 0.018 to 0.024, whereas ω for the sand-bentonite backfill range from 0.118 to 0.166. The two SB backfills recovered from the field also exhibited membrane behavior, with ω ranging from 0.0119 to 0.0140 for a backfill recovered from a cutoff wall in New Jersey and from 0.0019 to 0.0172 for a backfill recovered from a cutoff wall in Delaware. Although the range of ω values for the field SB backfills was lower than that for the model SB backfills, modeling revealed that the measured membrane behavior for the field SB backfills w