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Compressibility characteristics of municipal solid waste in meethotamulla waste fill site

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dc.contributor.advisor Kulathilake SAS
dc.contributor.author Galhena GDWN
dc.date.accessioned 2021
dc.date.available 2021
dc.date.issued 2021
dc.identifier.citation Galhena, G.D.W.N. (2021). Compressibility characteristics of municipal solid waste in meethotamulla waste fill site [Master's theses, University of Moratuwa]. Institutional Repository University of Moratuwa. http://dl.lib.uom.lk/handle/123/18822
dc.identifier.uri http://dl.lib.uom.lk/handle/123/18822
dc.description.abstract Municipal solid waste (MSW) is defined as solid waste generated from community, commercial and agricultural operations and it includes wastes from households, offices, stores, industries and other non-manufacturing activities. Management of municipal solid waste is a major problem all over the world. Recently, Municipal Solid Waste Management became a growing concern in Sri Lanka with the catastrophic landfill failures occurred at Meethotamulla. The need to ensure the stability of existing landfills which are mostly uncontrolled through appropriate engineering designs is a major task at present. MSW forms the largest portion of the landfill and its strength and stiffness (compressibility) characteristics controls all aspects of landfill designs. In this research compressibility characteristics of MSW at different stages of decomposition were evaluated under both saturated and unsaturated conditions. Considering the highly heterogeneous state of MSW, larger samples were tested using a Rowe Cell of diameter 150mm with loading, unloading and reloading increments. Characteristics such as; Coefficient of volume compressibility, coefficient of consolidation, coefficient of secondary consolidation, compression index, recompression index were determined to assess the applicability of conventional Terzaghi consolidation theory in modelling the MSW behavior. Results were compared with the behavior of residual soil and organic soils. The test results revealed that MSW experienced high primary and secondary consolidation settlements. These could be significantly reduced by preloading. The coefficient of consolidation values were quite high. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.subject MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE (MSW) - Sri Lanka - Meethotamulla en_US
dc.subject CONSOLIDATION CHARACTERISTICS en_US
dc.subject ROWE CELL en_US
dc.subject FOUNDATION ENGINEERING & EARTH RETAINING SYSTEMS - Dissertation en_US
dc.subject CIVIL ENGINEERING - Dissertation en_US
dc.title Compressibility characteristics of municipal solid waste in meethotamulla waste fill site en_US
dc.type Thesis-Abstract en_US
dc.identifier.faculty Engineering en_US
dc.identifier.degree M.Eng. in Foundation Engineering and Earth Retaining Systems en_US
dc.identifier.department Department of Civil Engineering en_US
dc.date.accept 2021
dc.identifier.accno TH4520 en_US


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