城市固体垃圾应力-应变-时间关系试验研究

通过室内蠕变试验,研究了城市固体垃圾（MSW）的蠕变变形规律。采用分级加载方式对初始孔隙比为2~4和初始有机物含量在15%~75%的MSW试样进行压缩降解试验。研究发现,应力-应变-时间曲线斜率随着初始孔隙比和初始有机物含量的增加逐渐减小,即材料压缩模量逐渐减小。采用指数模型拟合城市固体垃圾的应力-应变等时曲线,并取得了很好的拟合效果,模型参数简单易求,可反映城市固体垃圾压缩性的大小及其压缩机制。通过对指数模型求导,得到城市固体垃圾的切线压缩模量,切线压缩模量随初始孔隙比和易降解有机物含量的增加呈指数型衰减,初始孔隙比在2~3之间时,初始压缩模量衰减较快,也就是说,在该范围内,初始孔隙比对城市固体垃圾变形影响较大。     

好氧降解对垃圾土沉降影响试验及沉降模型

好氧降解作用对垃圾土沉降变形特性的定量评价是预测和评估好氧降解稳定化的重要基础。以武汉市典型生活垃圾组成配比人工制作的垃圾土为样本,开展了不同通风条件下垃圾土沉降特性试验,分析了好氧通风频率对沉降变形的影响。试验结果表明：厌氧条件沉降速率趋于稳定后,好氧通风可显著提高垃圾土的沉降速率;上、中、下3层垃圾在高通风频率下垃圾土沉降比低通风频率下沉降效率分别提高了145%、150%、100%;建立了厌氧-好氧联合型沉降模型,通过与试验监测得到的沉降值对比,初步验证了模型的可靠性。研究结果为好氧通风过程中垃圾土沉降稳定性评估提供了理论依据。     

考虑有机物降解的变形试验和计算方法研究

垃圾土变形中有机物降解是一个非常重要的因素,又是很复杂的过程。进行了温度与湿度小范围波动、无压力、持水率条件下有机物降解的质量跟踪试验和垃圾土柱沉降试验,且在质量跟踪试验中还进行了淋滤液产生量的同步测定,分析了有机物降解的质量变化、质量变化速率的规律,初步明确了有机物降解的规律性结论。在质量跟踪试验的基础上,初步提出了有机物降解随时间变化规律的数学表达和3个基本计算参数的确定方法,计算结果与试验结果比较接近。用质量跟踪试验的研究结果对垃圾土柱试验进行了计算模拟,分别计算和分析了次压缩和有机物降解沉降随时间变化的过程。计算结果表明,在总的长期沉降中有机物降解引起的沉降比次压缩影响要大,考虑有机物降解和次压缩的计算结果与试验结果吻合较好。     

垃圾土一维压缩修正公式及有机物降解验证试验研究

针对垃圾填埋场沉降计算问题,考虑垃圾土中有机物降解及对降解过程中重度变化,在张振营压缩量计算方法的基础上推导了垃圾土一维压缩计算的修正公式;通过垃圾土有机物降解试验和计算分析,研究了有机物的降解规律;以相同配比的垃圾土进行了垃圾土柱的沉降和计算参数试验,对推导的垃圾土一维压缩计算修正公式进行了验证。研究表明,修正的计算公式能考虑更多的影响因素,有机物的降解规律可以用Richards生物生长规律来模拟,修正的计算公式能够合理地计算出垃圾土沉降的过程。     

三峡库区马家沟滑坡滑体粗粒土蠕变试验研究

为进行滑坡建模和数值模拟的需要,针对三峡库区马家沟滑坡滑体粗粒土开展了三轴蠕变试验,研究了不同围压、不同应力水平下滑体土的蠕变变形规律。试验表明,滑体粗粒土具有明显的非线性蠕变特征,蠕变过程可分为减速蠕变和匀速蠕变2个阶段;围压和应力水平对蠕变速率和蠕变阶段划分有重要影响。采用应力-应变关系为指数函数,应变-时间为幂函数的Singh-Mitchell（简称S-M）蠕变模型描述粗粒土的蠕变特性,与试验数据对比表明,S-M蠕变模型与试验结果具有较好的一致性,能很好地描述该粗粒土的蠕变特性。     

城市固体废弃物（MSW）的沉降参数研究

通过室内配制的 4种不同成份比例的垃圾土固结试验 ,对不同成份垃圾土的沉降参数的变化规律及垃圾土的变形机理和过程进行了研究。通过垃圾土的室内沉降试验 ,对垃圾土沉降量的计算值与实测值进行了比较分析。     

考虑降解效应的城市固体废弃物非线性本构模型

基于城市固体废弃物(MSW)的降解及土力学特征,在应力降解模型、等向压缩特性和邓肯-张模型的理论基础上,建立了一个能够描述MSW应力和降解耦合作用的全量非线性本构模型。给出了不同应力状态下单元体体积和轴向变形随时间变化的数学表达,同时给出了所有参数的确定方法。采用该模型对不同龄期和不同围压条件下填埋场现场试样的三轴CD应力-应变曲线以及室内长期一维降解压缩试验进行了模拟。结果表明,模型概念合理、参数明确,能够较全面地描述不同降解龄期垃圾的本构关系,可用于分析填埋场的长期变形。     

分散性土蠕变特性试验研究

采用三轴蠕变仪对宁木特水利枢纽工程黏土心墙的分散性土进行三轴固结排水试验,研究分散性土在不同初始条件下的蠕变变形规律,并获取蠕变模型及蠕变参数。试验结果表明,分散性土具有明显的非线性蠕变特征,蠕变过程可以分为瞬时弹塑性变形、衰减蠕变变形和稳定蠕变变形3个阶段;含水率、围压和偏应力水平对分散性土蠕变速率和蠕变量有显著的影响;应力-应变等时曲线具有明显的非线性特征。采用Singh-Mitchell蠕变模型和Mesri蠕变模型描述分散性土的蠕变特性,与试验数据对比表明,Mesri蠕变模型能够比较准确而方便地描述分散性土的蠕变特性,且模型具有参数少、适用性较强的特点。     

饱和砂性土非线性蠕变模型试验研究

采用单向压缩试验研究了常州不同含水层饱和砂性土的蠕变特性。试验结果表明,饱和砂性土的变形既与应力有关,也与时间有关。在一定应力作用下,其变形随时间的增加而增加,经过一段时间后才能达到稳定,应变与应力、时间都呈非线性关系。对试验结果的统计分析表明：用幂函数可以很好地拟合饱和砂性土的应力-应变-时间关系。这一结论有助于更深入地研究长期抽水作用下的地面沉降问题。     

城市垃圾填埋场有机物降解沉降模型的研究

研究城市垃圾填埋场的有机物降解沉降是非常重要的,有机物的降解沉降是填埋场的主要沉降,并且降解沉降将持续很长一段时间,较大的沉降能够导致防渗系统的渗漏并损坏覆盖系统。由于垃圾的非均匀性,其土工特性随地域及时间而改变,所以,计算垃圾填埋场的降解沉降是比较困难的。在试验及理论推导的基础上,提出了一种有机物的降解沉降模型,该模型参数较少,利用该模型预测了天子岭垃圾填埋场的库容及有机物的降解沉降。     

Permeability of Municipal Solid Waste in Bioreactor Landfill with Degradation

Bioreactor landfills are operated for rapid stabilization of waste, increased landfill gas generation for cost-effective energy recovery, gain in landfill space, enhanced leachate treatment, and reduced post closure maintenance period. The fundamental process of waste stabilization in bioreactor landfill is recirculation of generated leachate back into the landfills. This creates a favorable environment for rapid microbial decomposition of the biodegradable solid waste. In order to better estimate the generated leachate and design of leachate recirculation system, clear understanding of the permeability of the Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) with degradation and the factors influencing the permeability is necessary. The objective of the paper is to determine the changes in hydraulic properties of MSW in bioreactor landfill with time and decomposition. Four small-scale bioreactor landfills were built in laboratory and samples were prepared to represent each phase of decomposition. Then, the changes in hydraulic properties of MSW in bioreactor landfill with time and decomposition were determined. A series of constant head permeability tests were performed on the samples generated in laboratory scale bioreactor landfills to determine variation of permeability of MSW with degradation. The test results indicated that the permeability of MSW in bioreactor landfills decreases with decomposition. Based on the test results, the permeability of MSW at the first phase of degradation was estimated as 0.0088 cm/s at density 700 kg/m³. However, with degradation, permeability decreased to 0.0013 cm/s at the same density, for MSW at Phase IV.     

三轴应力状态下盐岩强度分析探讨

通过分析盐岩在三轴应力状态下的变形,说明了较高围压下盐岩的大变形特性,提出了三轴应力状态下,利用轴向荷载除以试件初始横截面面积得到应力-应变关系存在的问题,据此对工程应变和对数应变进行了分析和对比,阐明了这两种应变的适用条件,并开展了不同围压下的试验测试和对试验结果对比分析。研究揭示了应利用对数应变分析盐岩的大变形特性和对变形后的应力进行修正,得到了盐岩的工程应变和对数应变均可表示为围压的线性函数,围压为20 MPa时的轴向压缩变形量是5 MPa时的3.09倍。围压越高,对数应变修正得到的最大轴向应力与不修正的差值越大,用对数应变修正后的轴向应力低于不修正的结果,围压达到20 MPa时,前者仅为后者的63.85%。     

Dynamic Properties of Municipal Solid Waste in Bioreactor Landfills with Degradation

Bioreactor landfills are operated to enhance refuse decomposition, gas production, and waste stabilization. The major aspect of bioreactor landfill operation is the recirculation of collected leachate back through the refuse mass. Due to the presence of additional leachate and accelerated decomposition, the characteristics of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) in bioreactor landfills are expected to change. About 50% of the continental United States comes under the designated seismic impact zone. The federal regulations have focused increase attention on seismic design of solid waste fills, and have mandated that the solid waste landfills located in the seismic impact zones should be designed to resist the earthquake. Accordingly, assessment of dynamic properties of landfills is one of the major geotechnical tasks in landfill engineering. In order to understand the changes in dynamic properties of bioreactor waste mass with time and decomposition, four small scale bioreactor landfills were simulated in laboratory and samples were prepared to represent each phase of decomposition. The state of decomposition was quantified by methane yield, pH, and volatile organic content (VOC). A number of Resonant Column (RC) tests were performed to evaluate the dynamic properties (stiffness and damping) of MSW. The test results indicated that the normalized shear modulus reduction and damping curves are significantly affected by the degree of decomposition. The shear modulus increased from 2.11 MPa in Phase I to 12.56 MPa in Phase IV. The increase was attributed to the breakdown of fibrous nature of solid waste particles as it degrades. Therefore, considering MSW properties to be uniform throughout the bioreactor landfill is not a reasonable assumption and the shear modulus reduction curves should be evaluated based on the degree of MSW decomposition, rather than the sample composition itself.     

Leachate recirculation in bioreactor landfills considering the effect of MSW settlement on hydraulic properties

During leachate recirculation, a bioreactor landfill will experience more rapid and complete settlement, which is mainly attributed to the weight of municipal solid waste (MSW) and its biodegradation. The settlement of MSW may cause the decrease of void ratio of MSW, which will influence the permeability of MSW and the leachate quantity that can be held in bioreactor landfills. In this study, a new one-dimensional model of leachate recirculation using infiltration pond is developed. The new method is not only capable of describing leachate flow considering the effect of MSW settlement, but also accounting separately leachate flow in saturated and unsaturated zones. Moreover, the effects of operating parameters are evaluated with a parametric study. The analyzing results show that the influence depth of leachate recirculation considering the effect of MSW settlement is smaller than the value without considering the effect. The influence depth and leachate recirculation volume increase with the increase of infiltration pond pressure head and MSW void ratio. This indicates that the field compaction of MSW has a great influence on the leachate recirculation.     

A coupled model for prediction of settlement and gas flow in MSW landfills

Prediction of long‐term settlement and control of gas pollution to the environment are two principle concerns during the management of municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills. The behavior of settlement and gas flow in MSW landfills is complicated due to the combined effect of mechanical deformation of the solid skeleton and continuous biodegradation of the waste. A one‐dimensional settlement and gas flow model is presented in this paper, which is capable of predicting time evolution of settlement as well as temporal and spatial distribution of gas pressure within multi‐layered landfills under a variety of operating scenarios. The analytical solution to the novel model is evaluated with numerical simulation and field measurements. The resulting efficiency and accuracy highlight the capability of the proposed model to reproduce the settlement behavior and gas flow in MSW landfills. The influences of operating conditions and waste properties on settlement and gas pressure are examined for typical MSW landfills. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Shear strength of municipal solid waste for stability analyses

This paper investigates the shear strength of municipal solid waste (MSW) using the back analysis of failed waste slopes as well as field and laboratory test results. Shear strength of MSW is a function of many factors such as waste type, composition, compaction, daily cover, moisture conditions, age, decomposition, overburden pressure, etc. These factors together with non-standardized sampling methods, insufficient sample size to be representative of in situ conditions, and limited shear displacement or axial strain imposed during the laboratory shear testing have created considerable scatter in reported results. Based on the data presented herein, large shear displacements are required to mobilize the peak shear strength of MSW which can lead to displacement incompatibility between MSW and the underlying material(s) such as geosynthetic interfaces and foundation soils. The data presented herein are used to develop displacement compatible shear strength parameters for MSW. Recommendations are presented for modeling the displacement and stress dependent strength envelope in stability analyses.     

中国南海钙质砂蠕变-应力-时间四参数数学模型

钙质砂是一种海洋生物沉积形成的具有特殊结构和力学性质的岩土材料,是我国南海岛礁吹填工程的物源材料。为进一步了解其蠕变特性,采用三轴流变仪对取自中国南海某岛礁的钙质砂进行不同围压条件下的长期蠕变试验研究。试验结果表明,在小于其破坏强度的恒定应力作用下,饱和钙质砂发生衰减蠕变,随时间增加,变形不断增加,但变形速率不断减小,直至变形稳定,所受应力越大则达到变形稳定所需时间越长,且蠕变变形量与所受偏应力正相关、与有效围压反相关。应力-应变与应变-时间均为非线性关系。试验研究发现,可采用幂函数对钙质砂蠕变应变-时间进行数学描述,基于试验结果,提出了一种蠕变应变与时间、偏应力和有效围压相关的四参数新的蠕变模型,可以对钙质砂的蠕变过程进行较好的数学描述;与经典的Mesri蠕变模型相比,所提出的数学蠕变模型不需要开展常规三轴压缩试验确定破坏时的峰值偏应力,减少了试验工作,具有一定的优势。