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CONFERENCE:                       Geo-Frontiers 2011 

TECHNICAL TRACK #6:         Geoenvironmental Engineering

TECHNICAL SESSION (a):  Advances in Sustainable Barrier Materials and Systems

Description of the Topic

Sustainable materials are recently developed to replace or enhance the performance of hydraulic barriers. The objective in developing innovative barriers is to produce a barrier that is more efficient and/or less costly than existing systems.

The industry and construction sector face today an increasing problem of how to dispose of its voluminous residues. Several types of alternative materials, such as clay mixed with polymers or ashes or dredged soil, have been recently proposed to replace or amend conventional barrier materials.

Some of the residues used are constituted of large amounts of:

  - organic molecules, polymers (by-products of food industry),
  - ashes and slag (generated from incineration and melting),
  - excavated and dredged soil (from maintenance, construction and remedial works),
  - phosphogypsum (by-product of processing phosphate),
  - sludges (from chemical, paper and glass industry),
  - etc.

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
deadline for abstract submission is 15 March 2010
please submit your abstract directly at the website http://www.geofrontiers11.com/

for any question about this Session please mail to       gemmina.diemidio@ugent.be
for any question about the Conference please mail to  bjconnett@ifai.com  

Gemmina Di Emidio
Laboratory of Geotechnics
Ghent University, Belgium
Tel. +32 9 264 57 20