A general approach of main influencing factors in the geosynthetic clay liners performance

Abstract

Geosynthetic Clay Liners (GCL) are an alternative to Compacted Clay Liners (CCL). Manufactured products present more benefits than those that uses just natural materials. However, a deficient management of GCLs could make this product improperly to use. Becoming indeed, an inconvenient issue where applied. Therefore, some main points should be considered when GCLs were used. Thus, main benefits, important research results, life cycle dependency and performance improvement, were discussed here. Finally, a brief comparison between GCLs and CCLs was carried out.