1995 Volume 10 Pages 29-36
The installation of seepage control systems using liners made of impermeable materials has been made obligatory at final disposal yards for waste. Sheets made of synthetic rubber and similar materials have conventionally been used for this purpose, but a problem has been presented in recent years by the leakage of contaminated water through perforations and defective joints in the sheets. In this study, a large permeability test device were used to examine the cutoff performance of self-repairing geomembrane which is newly developed as a cutoff material for waste disposal yards, we report on character of the self-repair performance of this geomembrane.
