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3D contaminant migration model with consolidation dependent transport coefficients

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Soil consolidation would induce variations of its transport coefficients such as hydraulic conductivity and diffusion coefficient. This paper presents a study of the influence of barrier consolidation on transport coefficients, and a 3D transport model based on mixture theory is proposed for describing the liners that involve circular defects in the geomembrane. The elastoplastic ALPHA model is revised by using the spatially mobilized plane (SMP) criterion for simulating the deformation of the soils. Then, the 3D model coupling the nonlinear consolidation and contaminant advection-diffusion is solved using the finite element software ABAQUS. The results show that the importance of reducing the defect size in the geomembrane and the liner porosity to control the contaminant concentration increase.

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    Lu Huang, Cheng-Gang Zhao, Yan Liu & Guo-Qing Cai

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The project was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (50778013) and the National Basic Research Program (973) of China (2010CB732100).

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Huang, L., Zhao, CG., Liu, Y. et al. 3D contaminant migration model with consolidation dependent transport coefficients. Acta Mech Sin 28, 151–163 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10409-012-0023-9

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