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Data are reported from oven aging in air for more than 13 years (!) and from water immersion tests for 6 years at 80 °C on various high-density polyethylene geomembranes (GM) used in landfill lining. The mechanical properties and oxidative induction times (OIT) of the samples were monitored during the long-term testing. Aging behavior in hot air is different from that in hot water. During oven aging a slow, exponential decrease of OIT is observed. Even after 13.6 years there is no indication of an oxidative degradation of the mechanical properties. During immersion in water a strong reduction in OIT occurs within the first year, after which time the curve levels off. Oxidation starts when very low OIT-values are reached after about 5 years at which time the mechanical strength rapidly falls to values below the yield point. We conclude from these data that the service life of HDPE GM's is essentially determined by the slow loss of stabilizers due to migration. The oxidation starts only after the depletion of antioxidants and then quickly leads to brittleness of the sample. However, no complete oxidative deterioration has been observed to date. We estimate by the van't Hoff rule that under normal ambient conditions many centuries will have to pass before the functional mechanical properties of state-of-the-art stabilized HDPE bulk material will be reduced below acceptable limits by oxidative degradation.
Data are reported from oven aging in circulating air and water immersion tests at 80°C on various polyolefin (polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP)) needle-punched nonwoven geotextiles (GTnws) and the results of these long-term tests are compared with the oxidative resistance of high-density PE geomembranes (HDPE GMs) described in a preceding paper (Polym. Degr. Stability 79(1) (2003) 161). Polyolefin fibers used in geotextiles are typically less stabilized, have a very high surface-to-volume ratio and an oriented morphology compared with HDPE GMs. Therefore, significant differences in the oxidation behavior of these products are expected which may affect their durability. Two general results can be obtained from our measurements: Firstly, while the lifetime of the HDPE GM is essentially determined by the slow loss of stabilizers, for all GTnws a rapid reduction in the oxidative induction time (OIT) and, as we conclude, in the amount of stabilizer was observed during water immersion and air aging. Secondly, the mechanical property degradation of the GTnws depended strongly on the oxidation conditions: the induction period prior to the degradation was much longer for immersion in water than for oven aging in circulating air. After antioxidant depletion, an induction time of the oxidation reaction, which depends on the draw ratio of the stretched fibers and the oxygen supply, might substantially contribute to the induction period of the mechanical property degradation of GTnws. For one PP GTnw product, a sudden reduction in the mechanical strength occurred after onset of degradation which continued rapidly until complete deterioration. For other PP samples as well as for all PE GTnws the reduction in mechanical strength proceeded slowly. Best fits were obtained by modeling the degradation process of the PE GTnws by a second-order kinetic. Using an activation energy of 60 kJ/mol (Geotextiles, Geomembranes and Related Products, Balkema, Rotterdam, 1990; Conference Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Geosynthetics, Industrial Fabrics Association International (IFAI), Atlanta, USA, 1998, pp. 683690; Clay Geosynthetic Barriers, Balkema, Lisse, The Netherlands, 2002, pp. 8796), lower limits of the half-live of the degradation at worst case field conditions were obtained in the range 3083 years. Some decades have to be added for the overall induction time. However, under field conditions with limited oxygen supply, the expected service lifetime might be at least half an order of magnitude longer.
Composite liners (a geomembrane in intimate contact with a mineral liner) are frequently used to line landfills and contaminated sites. It is therefore very important to characterise the behaviour of these systems even under extreme conditions.
An investigation was undertaken to determine the influence of a mixture of concentrated organic contaminants on composite liner materials taken from test cells that had been dismantled after a 12-year permeation test.
The organic hydrocarbons had permeated the HDPE-geomembrane and had then migrated or had been adsorbed within the mineral liners, depending on their properties. The obtained concentration profiles of the contaminant mixture components indicate that the various mineral layer materials have selective retardation abilities which correspond to the different parameters of the organic compounds as well as of the mineral layer.
In addition, contaminant transport in the composite liners tested was modelled and the results of the model analysis compared with measurement data. An example (acetone) illustrates the calculated spatial and temporal contaminant concentration.
The composite liners investigated exhibit a very good sealing capacity against the concentrated organic contaminants used.
Durch die hydrolytische Alterung ändert sich die Zugfestigkeit eines Polyester-Bewehrungsgitters im Laufe der Zeit. Nach den Empfehlungen für den Entwurf und die Berechnung von Erdkörpern mit Bewehrung aus Geokunststoffen (EBGEO) der DGGT wird dieser Effekt durch einen Abminderungsfaktor bei der Bemessung berücksichtigt. Es ist zwar im Prinzip festgelegt, wie man bei der Bestimmung eines solchen Faktors für eine chemisch bedingte Materialveränderung vorgehen soll (ISO/TR 20432), es bleiben jedoch große Freiheiten bei der Umsetzung. Die Fragen, die sich daraus bei Bewehrungsgittern aus Polyester ergeben, werden diskutiert. Es werden Bausteine eines einheitlichen Verfahrens vorgeschlagen, das sich nicht nur auf den Festigkeitsverlust, sondern auch auf die molekulare Veränderung konzentriert.
Mit Dichtungskontrollsystemen (DKS) werden Konvektionssperren in Oberflächenabdichtungssystemen von Deponien kontrolliert. Die Funktionsfähigkeit eines eingebauten DKS muss in jedem Projekt zuvor überprüft werden. Diese projektspezifische Funktionsprüfung des DKS selbst wird am Beispiel der Verwendung mit einer Kunststoffdichtungsbahn (KDB) diskutiert. Der grundsätzliche Aufbau, die zugrunde liegenden Messprinzipien und das Ziel der Prüfung werden vorgestellt. Die Anforderungen an die nach der Deponieverordnung (DepV) zugelassenen Systeme hinsichtlich Betrieb, Leitungsfähigkeit und Konstruktion werden beschrieben. Dabei wird auf die Vorgaben der Richtlinie, die einer Zulassung zugrunde liegt, eingegangen. Das mögliche Vorgehen bei der projektspezifischen Kontrollprüfung im Hinblick auf Aspekte wie Vorgehensweise, Zeitpunkt und Randbedingungen sowie äußere Einflussfaktoren werden diskutiert.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Leak detection systems (LDS) are used to control tight barriers in landfill cover systems. However, the efficiency of the installed LDS itself has to be verified in every landfill construction project. As an example the efficiency test for LDS used in connection with geomembranes is discussed in detail. The basic principles, the measuring techniques and objectives of the efficiency testing are described. The requirements for a certification of LDS under the terms of the new German landfill ordinance with regard to operation, capability and design are listed. The conditions necessary for a certification of LDS are introduced. Possible project related efficiency testing procedures with respect to the scope, time of convenience, general conditions as well as external influencing factors are discussed.
Hydrolytic degradation and functional stability of a segmented shape memory poly(ester urethane)
(2009)
In order to understand the effects of water and hydrolytic ageing on semi-crystalline poly(ester urethane) and its shape memory functionality, water immersion experiments at elevated temperature have been performed on a model substance and various parameters were monitored: change of the melting/crystallisation temperatures, substantial increase in crystallinity, temperature dependence of the water diffusion coefficient and solubility, hydrogen-bonding index and phase mixing by peak deconvolution of the FT-IR carbonyl region and day-to-day tensile and thermo-mechanical cyclic tensile tests. A rising fraction of freezable water agglomerates in the polymer was found for specimens cooled from the immersion temperature. The degradation process could be divided into three phases: an induction phase, a phase of continuous degradation and a phase of accelerated degradation. Shape recovery remains fairly constant during phase one and decreases slowly during phase two. The increase in crystallinity in phase two is accompanied by an increase in shape fixing ability.
In two hydrolytic degradation studies the tensile (mechanical) and functional (thermo-mechanical) properties of a hydrolysis-stabilized shape memory poly(ester urethane) and its non-stabilized analog were investigated. Hydrolytic degradation was enforced by specimen immersion in de-ionized water at 80 °C. Significant differences in the fundamental shape memory parameters were monitored as function of aging time for the stabilized and non-stabilized polymer. This included the ability to recover strain (shape recoverability) and stress (stress recoverability) on heating after shape programming. Hydrolysis-related mechanical and functional changes were correlated with morphological ones, detected by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The shape memory poly(ester urethane), which was protected by a carbodiimide-based hydrolysis stabilizer, revealed significantly improved resistance towards hydrolysis with respect to various mechanical and shape memory parameters.
The shape memory functionality of a segmented poly(ester urethane) and its hydrolytically aged specimens has been studied by cyclic thermo-mechanical measurements with an imposed strain of 100%. The shape memory effect was triggered by a melting transition in the soft segment phase. Aging was enforced by immersion in hot de-ionized water. In the course of the immersion the tensile properties (secant moduli, stress and strain at yield and break) were impaired by hydrolysis. Advanced specimen embrittlement finally led to rupture during the first thermo-mechanical cycle. This happened after 68 days of aging at 55 °C and correspondingly after 8 days at 80 °C. The residual strain after the first cycle, which was about 25%, increased significantly with aging time. Therefore, the total strain recoverability became ever smaller: aged specimens needed conditioning by at least two cycles for a full development of shape recoverability. Likewise the recovery force decreased continuously. Despite these degradation effects, it was observed that the shape fixity and the cycle-related shape recovery of appropriately conditioned specimens (number of cycles N > 2) remained on a constant high level (at round 100% and between 90% and 100%, respectively) throughout the whole aging period. These observations are discussed within the framework of a simplified model of the behavior of crystallizable shape memory polymers. The amorphous state of the polymer is described by the equation of the linear visco-elastic solid. As for the semi-crystalline state the material is assumed to react elastically with respect to deviations from the configuration, which was frozen up under constraint conditions. The curves of the dependence of the material behavior on aging time at 55 °C match perfectly those at 80 °C when the time axis is adjusted by a factor of 8.5, from which the apparent activation energy for hydrolytic aging in the amorphous state of 82 kJ mol-1 could be deduced.
Like all plastic products, geocomposite drains (GCD) are susceptible to creep and creep rupture. The GCD is slowly and continuously deformed under long lasting shear and pressure forces. The thickness is reduced and thereby the water flow capacity. If the in-plane deformation reaches a critical value in the course of time, shear failure might occur. Likewise, if the thickness reaches a critical value the structure of the drain core might collapse. These effects are shown using data provided by the manufacturers of four different GCD. Long-term water flow capacity and the acceptable limits of shear stress and normal stress (pressure) with respect to shear rupture and drain core stability as well as the lifetime with respect to these failure modes are determined using standard test methods. The design of long lasting geotechnical structures has to take into account these characteristics of the long-tem performance of GCD.
Geogrids, which are installed to prevent sliding failure on long and steep slopes, have to be safely anchored. The design and calculation of the anchorage is based on simple design rules. Basically, it is assumed that the pull-out resistance is proportional to the soil shear strength, the vertical load and the anchoring length and that the soil-reinforcement coefficient of proportionality as determined in pull-out tests is typically in the range between 0.5 and 1. Based on an extended version of a model for the soil-geogrid interaction, which was described by Ziegler and Timmers (2004) and Sieira et al. (2009), the physical assumptions and limitations of these rules are discussed. For those geogrids, for which the passive thrust mobilization of earth pressure by the displacement of the transversal or bearing force grid elements substantially contributes to the pull-out resistance, the mechanical strength of the junction between longitudinal and transversal elements is of crucial importance. The relation between mechanical properties of the junction, the flexibility of the longitudinal grid elements, the surface friction and the finally achieved pull-out resistance is exemplarily shown by a model calculation. It is included, that due to aging and creep the short-term junction strength may be significantly lower than the long-term strength. There is a certain critical pull-out resistance and an associated critical anchorage length. Both are determined by the strength of the junction embedded into the soil and are independent from the actually installed anchorage length. For a safe design it is not allowed to go beyond that limit. This requirement restricts the range of application of the common design rules. It follows that not only the long-term strength of the longitudinal elements has to be considered and quantified by reduction factors but also the long-term strength of junctions. These limitations have to be observed to achieve a safe design of the anchorage. Preliminary design rules are discussed.