Behaviour long-term

This chapter deals with ageing processes of HDPE geomembranes, with their durability and the resulting service lives. Implicitly, statements on material resistance and functional reserves are always implied. Explicit statements about resistances of HDPE geomembranes to individual influences (chemical resistance, resistance to thermo-oxidative degradation, resistance to stress crack, resistance to weathering, biological resistance) have been made in Chap. 3 in connection with the respective resistance test methods. A concise summary of durability and resistance of plastics and rubber is published by (Dolezel 1978). 

For lining tunnels, canals, reservoirs or dikes, long service lives must be envisaged and an economically justifiable repair is only possible in exceptional cases. Therefore, plastic geomembrane with approved long service 

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However, there are long-term geotechnical applications, like landfill lining, where the above assumption is certainly not valid and, hence, the ageing behaviour of the geosynthetic products has to be investigated explicitly. 

Long-term behaviour, i.e. the relationships between action and degradation due to ageing for a certain construction product can be assessed using three methods  

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Streicher , however, considered this approach to be unsound and pointed out that the short duration of the potentiostatic studies carried out by France and Greene cannot be used to predict long-term behaviour in service. The prolonged dialogue between these workers was well summarised in the review article by Cowan and Tedmon who concluded that these particular potentiostatic tests cannot be regarded as accelerated tests for service environments and that predicting future industrial service for periods longer than the test is not advisable. 

Sontag W. 1984. Long-term behaviour of 239Pu, 241Am and 233U in different bones of one-year-old rats Macrodistribution and macrodosimetry. Hum Toxicol 3 469-483. 

For an isolated system based on the microcanonical ensemble with phase points equally distributed in a narrow energy range, all systems exhibit the same long-term behaviour and spend the same fraction wt of time in different elementary regions. For a total number N of systems at time t,... 

Ewing, R.C. (2001). Nuclear waste form glasses the evaluation of very long-term behaviour. Materials Technology 16 30-36. 

Electron microscope examination shows that freshly cleaved rock surfaces undergo extensive modifications when they are exposed to water. We need to know about such changes in order to correctly relate laboratory results to long term behaviour. 

Finally, hollandite is the only non-actinide host phase considered here, and is the only Cs host phase that has been extensively studied. Results summarized herein indicate that hollandite has excellent aqueous durability, crystal chemical flexibility, well-known processing parameters, and more than adequate waste loadings. Although natural analogues exist for hollandite, they have not been examined in the context of nuclear waste disposal, thus we have no details on the long-term behaviour of this important Cs host phase. 

Trocellier, P. 2000. Immobilisation of radionuclides in single-phase crystalline waste forms a review on their intrinsic properties and long term behaviour. Ann. Chim. Sci. Mat., 25, 321-337. 

This short chapter does not address all the issues related to predicting the long-term behaviour of materials. Our goal is simply to evoke a few key concepts relevant to the use of natural analogues. 

The present chapter deals exclusively with the scientific issues of point (2). It is based on the results of an extensive study under the authority of the Swiss Agency for Environment, Forests and Landscape (SAEFL/BUWAL Perret et al. 2000,2002). The in-depth survey was performed on 23 HT materials originating from 16 different advanced thermal treatment facilities developed by 10 different companies in Switzerland, Germany, France, and Italy, and operated under realistic conditions (e.g., from wastes representative of average MSW). On the basis of the results, two options are tested to assess the long-term behaviour of HT materials ... 

PoInssot, C., Toulhoat, P. et al. 2001. Synthesis on the Long Term Behaviour of the Spent Nuclear Fuel. Volume I. Direction des Technologies de l Information. CEA Rapport CEA-R-5958 (E). 

Anthony, E. J., Bulewicz, E. M., Dudek, K. Kozak, A. 2002. The long term behaviour of CFBC ash-watersystems. Waste Management, 22,99-111. Bauer, C. F. Natlsch, D. F. S. 1981. Identification and quantification of carbonate compounds in coal fly ash. Environmental Science and Technology, 15, 783-788. 

Summarising the data about the Si3N4/SiC composites, it can be stated that no significant increase in the mechanical properties at room temperature has been achieved which can not be realised in monolithic Si3N4 ceramics. However, at high temperatures substantially improved long term behaviour connected with a change in the oxidation mechanism can be realised. 

Herrmann M, Klemm H, Schubert C, Hermel W (1997) Long Term Behaviour of SiC/Si3N4-Nanocomposites at 1400-1500 °C. In Baxter J, Fordham LCR, Gabis V, Hellot Y, Lefebvre M, Le Doussal H, Sech AL (eds) Euro Ceramics V Key Eng Mat 132-136. Trans Tech Publications, Switzerland, p 1997... 

Herrmann M, Klemm H, Gobel B, Schubert C, Hermel W (1999) SiC/Si3N4 Nanocomposites with Excellent High Temperature Long-Term Behaviour. In Niihara, Sekino, Yasuda E, Sasa T (eds) The Science of Engineering Ceramics II, Key Eng Mat 161-163. Trans Tech Publications, Switzerland, p 377... 

K. Hecht, M. Poppei, Th. Schlegel, G. Hinz, R. TBnjes, P. GBtz and G. DBrner, Long-term behavioural effects of psychotrophic drugs administered during brain development in rats, in G. DBrner and M Kawakami (Eds.), Hormones and Brain Development, Elsevier/North-Holland Biomedical Press, 1978, pp. 277-283. 

Hotzl, H., Rosner, G. Winkler, R. (1989) Long term behaviour of Chernobyl fallout in air and precipitation. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 10, 157-71. 

Sarradin, P.M., Lapaquellerie, Y., Astruc, A., Latouche, C.A., Astruc, M., 1995. Long term behaviour and degradation kinetics of tributyltin in a marine sediment. Sci. Total Environ. 170, 59-70. 

Examples of reaction rates for different metals are given in Tables 9.5 and 9.6. Reaction rates that are extremely fast (>107s 1) or very slow (<10 8s 1) will not affect assumptions concerning solution equilibrium. However, caution is required in the application of chemical thermodynamics to reactions with intermediate rates (Sposito, 1986 1989). The importance of kinetics in solution speciation depends on the time frame of the experiment or application. Solution reactions that take days to come to equilibrium will tend to have a minor impact on conclusions or predictions concerning long-term behaviour (e.g. soil formation), but could have important implications for short-term situations, such as the growth of an annual pasture or storm water runoff. 

It is essential to the theme of this chapter that quality interpretation shapes visitors on-site experiences and helps promote sustainable behaviour. There is only limited evidence for this claim, and more work needs to be carried out more creatively in this area. In a number of individual studies learning and educational efforts as well as enjoyment have been demonstrated as mutual outcomes of interpretive efforts (Moscardo, 1998). Additionally, interpretation can clearly structure a visitor s time at a site, both in the activity itself and in the ways in which the material digested shapes further on-site activity. It is less clear that tourist-related on-site interpretation fosters long-term behavioural changes that serve the overall conservation of the planet. Nevertheless for select groups predisposed to certain kinds of tourism, existing attitudes, appear to be consolidated (Lee, 2002). 

Corrosion resistant material is a key issue for success of sulphuric thermochemical cycle. Silicon carbide, hastelloy, gold and Fe-Si alloys have a good corrosion rate less than 1 mm per year. However, long-term behaviour is different from that of short-term behaviour due to a protective layer (Kim, H.P., 2008). A long-term corrosion in realistic environment is required for selecting suitable material for large scale SI chemical plant. 

Nevertheless, nations with sufficient resources to pioneer the future must surely do so and the U S has long borne such responsibility. If there is doubt about the long term effects of chemicals in the environment then it is clearly prudent to restrict their use as far as possible Restrictions on use also seem to be the only way to verify experimentally some of the speculations about the long term behaviour of existing residues If the reduced use of OC in the U S and other advanced countries can compensate for the continuing need for them elsewhere, then, hopefully, the overall degree of environmental contamination can... 

The long-term behaviour of polymers is fundamentally different from the short time behaviour the first cannot be explained from the latter, if the ageing time is neglected. So the value of "accelerated tests" is dubious. Proposition 10 is illustrated by Fig. 13.48. 

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