Estimation of geotechnical properties of municipal solid waste by field method

Abstract

As biodegradation proceeds, municipal solid wastes (MSW) acquire pronounced soil-like properties and upon completion of the process can be used as the foundation. The solid waste massif is an inhomogeneous soil-like mass which requires non-destructive and minimally invasive methods of research. The cone penetration testing of MSW by piezocone (CPTU) in combination with the multichannel analysis of surface waves (MASW) provide extensive data about physico-mechanical properties of wastes, which are usually unavailable in traditional approaches and which can be directly used in geotechnical stability calculations of the waste massif.