Evaluation of dynamic compaction of low level waste burial trenches containing B-25 boxes [electronic resource].

Published: Washington, D.C. : United States. Dept. of Energy, 1994.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
Physical Description: 13 pages : digital, PDF file
Additional Creators: Westinghouse Savannah River Company, United States. Department of Energy, and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information

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The Savannah River Site, owned by the US Department of Energy, is preparing to close an additional 13.8 ha of burial grounds under the Resource Conservation Recovery Act. In preparation for this closure, the dynamic compaction facility was designed and constructed to address unresolved design issues. Among these issues is the evaluation of the ability for dynamic compaction to consolidate buried low level waste containers. A model burial trench containing simulated clean wastes was dynamically compacted, after which the materials were excavated and compaction quantified. The test determined that under existing success criteria, the bottom tier of stacked B-25 boxes were not being consolidated. A quasi-structural layer was formed midway through the stacked boxes, which absorbed the compactive energy. Resulting from these observations and the data collected, a new success criterion is recommended which depends on the relative displacement per drop. The test successfully demonstrated that dynamic compaction will consolidate buried metal boxes.

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E 1.99:wsrc-rp--94-737
E 1.99: conf-9409189--1
conf-9409189--1
wsrc-rp--94-737

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Published through SciTech Connect.
08/01/1994.
"wsrc-rp--94-737"
" conf-9409189--1"
"DE94016964"
1994 American Society of Civil Engineers national conference,Atlanta, GA (United States),9-14 Sep 1994.
McMullin, S.R.

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AC09-89SR18035

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