The application of suction on a saturated soil specimen consolidated in an oedometer may cause the lateral shrinkage. This study tries to simulate such situation using triaxial testing apparatus and to quantify the lateral deformation due to drying and shearing. ...

<p>The behavior of heat-tacked GCL seams under cyclic wetting and drying is examined. It is shown that the transverse shrinkage behavior of heat-tacked seams was similar to that observed in previous shrinkage tests performed on unseamed GCL. It is shown that ...

<p>The shrinkage of fabric-supported reinforced geosynthetic clay liner (GCL) panels covered by a geomembrane and left exposed with no overlying soil was openly documented as a potential problem in 2005. Laboratory and field testing has been conducted in an ...

<p>A potential industry-wide concern for GCL shrinkage was identified by Thiel and Richardson (2005) at the January 2005 Geo-Frontiers conference in Austin, Texas, based on observed problems at several sites worldwide. All of the known problems were for installations ...

<p>Shrinkage of GCL panels in composite liners left exposed to solar radiation (i.e with no cover soil/ ballast) has resulted in significant separation between initially overlapped panels in a number of field cases reported in the literature. Separations between ...