Materials used in the

construction of landfills and

contaminated land and for
leachate and gas collection
David Shercliff BSc CEng MICE CMIWM
GEOfabrics Ltd
www.geofabrics.com

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 Functions of geotextile
G E O S Y N T H E T IC S

G e o t e x t ile s G e o m e m b ra n e s
- p e r m e a b le - i m p e r m e a b le

 Separation
 Filtration
 Transmission
 Reinforcement
 Protection
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 Non wovens
 Heat bonded continuous
filament THE
MANUFACTURING
 Needle punched continuous PROCESS USED AT
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filament
 Needle punched staple fibre

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 Modern needle punching plant

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 Grids, meshes and nets
Nets

Uni axial grids

Bi axial grids

COMPOSITES

Cuspates

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 6m wide
composites
laminator

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 Applications of
geosynthetics in
landfills
 Separators
 Protectors

 Liners

- 10 years of
development from dilute
and disperse to
engineered liners - now
over 50 documents
including the European
EISU Landfill Directive 1999
 Good practice - Cylinder test

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 Site specific test
- Cylinder test

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 Early
composite
drainage
systems

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 Transmissivity test

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 THE FUTURE ?
Hi-resistance basal drainage composite

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 Geocomposite Cell
with stone layer reduced to 150mm from
500mm

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 Side slope composite for leachate
drainage and membrane protection

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 Landfill capping

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 Landfill capping and gas collection

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 Barrier - containment

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 Hi-visibility separator  Low Pore Size-
filtration
 High
Permeability-
 Excellent
damage
resistance-if
exposed in the
future

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 Under the
Millenium Dome
in London

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Protection efficiency 100,000 hours of
testing
 interface friction values
 long term compression creep values
 long term leachate immersion tests
 flow characteristics under soil loading
 Model specifications
 Case studies and reference lists
The Inclined Plane test
(ISO 12957 part II)

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 THANK YOU
FOR YOUR
ATTENTION

Geosynthetics help save soil

without costing the earth…….
David A Shercliff
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