A Prediction Method for Swelling Deformation of Bentonite …
Compacted bentonite-sand mixtures have been proposed as suitable buffer/backfill materials for construction of the artificial barrier in HLW (Ye et al. 2015), because of the low hydraulic conductivity, high swelling property, and good self-sealing capacities of bentonite. Many studies about the swelling behaviors of bentonite and its sand mixtures in salt solution are …