Application of Geosynthetics in Waste Containment
Long-Term Performance of Geosynthetics in Engineering Barrier Systems
- 1st Edition - November 27, 2025
- Latest edition
- Editors: Haijian Xie, Huaxiang Yan, Qiao Wang
- Language: English
Application of Geosynthetics in Waste Containment: Long-Term Performance of Geosynthetics in Engineering Barrier Systems explains the transport mechanism and influencing factor… Read more
Description
Description
Subsequently, it focuses on material durability and introduces new materials which are crucial considerations in environmental applications. Furthermore, the book provides detailed explanations of the application of geosynthetic materials in waste containment, drainage and filtration layers, cover systems, bottom liners, and vertical cut-off walls within engineering barriers.
Key features
Key features
- Detailed discussion on the application, comparison, combination, equivalence, and selection of various types of geosynthetics, such as geomembranes, geotextiles, and geosynthetic clay liners
- Offers corresponding techniques to improve the performance of geosynthetics by the utilization of different amended materials
- Case studies are presented using field data relating to engineering barrier systems and the latest techniques for predicting their performance
Readership
Readership
Table of contents
Table of contents
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Classification of geosynthetics
1.3 Current applications of geosynthetics in environmental protection
1.4 Recent development trends of geosynthetics in environmental protection
2. Application of geosynthetics in cover systems
2.1 Introduction
2.2 The structural forms of cover systems
2.3 Gas transport mechanism of gas in intact geosynthetic clay liners
2.4 Gas permeability of geosynthetic clay liner overlap
2.5 Gas transport in geomembranes
2.6 Gas transport in composite cover systems
3. Application of geosynthetics in bottom liners
3.1 Introduction
3.2 The development history of bottom liner system
3.3 Transport mechanism of contaminant in composite liner
3.4 Chemical compatibility of geosynthetic clay liners
3.5 Numerical model for contaminant transport in geosynthetic clay liner
3.6 Model for contaminant transport in composite liners
3.7 Equivalent analytical models for assessment of landfill composite liners
3.8 Numerical model for solution transport in BPC-geosynthetic clay liners
3.9 Full-service life design method for composite liners
4. Application of geosynthetics in cut-off walls
4.1 Introduction
4.2 The structural forms of cut-off walls and the role of geosynthetics
4.3 Permeability of cut-off walls
4.4 Adsorption characteristics and service performance of bentonite-modified vertical barrier walls
4.5 Leakage of composite cut-off walls with geomembranes
4.6 Contaminant transport in a cut-off wall-aquifer- aquitard triple domain system
4.7 Water infiltration and contaminant transport in composite barrier system
5. Geosynthetics behavior for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance containment
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance sources and environmental impacts
5.3 Adsorption and diffusion of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance in geosynthetics
5.4 Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance emissions from cover systems
5.5 Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance transport in composite cut-off wall
6. Case studies of geosynthetics applications in environmental protection
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Landfill liner system
6.3 Landfills cover system
6.4 Cut-off walls for contaminated sites
6.5 Expansion
6.6 Detection
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: November 27, 2025
- Language: English
About the editors
About the editors
HX
Haijian Xie
HY
Huaxiang Yan
Dr. Huaxiang Yan is a Senior Researcher in Engineering Geology at Fuzhou University, China. His research specialises in contaminant transport processes, environmental geotechnics, reactive flow modelling, and coupled thermal–hydraulic–mechanical–chemical processes in soils and porous media. He has authored more than 50 peer-reviewed journal papers and is recognised for his work on analytical and numerical modelling of contaminant migration, landfill barrier performance, and subsurface environmental systems. His research combines advanced mathematical modelling with environmental engineering applications to address emerging challenges in pollution control, waste containment, and contaminant fate and transport in complex geological environments.
QW
Qiao Wang
Dr. Qiao Wang is an associate professor in the School of Resources and Environmental Engineering at Hefei University of Technology, China. Her research focuses on environmental geotechnics, PFAS contamination, contaminant transport, landfill engineering, and geosynthetic barrier systems. She has led several nationally funded projects on the transport and fate of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in landfill cover systems and unsaturated soils. Her work integrates laboratory experimentation, molecular dynamics simulation, and transport modelling to investigate the behaviour of emerging contaminants in environmental barriers. Dr. Wang has published more than 50 peer-reviewed papers in the leading journals of environmental engineering and geotechnics.