Kelly, John A.2023-06-072023-06-071998https://unbscholar.lib.unb.ca/handle/1882/34270Clay liners are used as "impermeable boundaries" to prevent the migration of leachate, due to their very low hydraulic conductivities. Clay (like all soils) however, is weak in tension; due to this fact clay liners are prone to tensile cracking when non-uniform loads act on them. These cracks dramatically increase the hydraulic conductivity, recent work has focused on reinforcing fibers being added to the clay to increase it's tensile strength. I preformed falling head tests on clays with 0, 0.25, 0.5 % reinforcing fibres at the optimum moisture content to determine if increased fibre content created a preferred path for fluid flow increasing the hydraulic conductivity.electronicen-CAhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ecsenior reportValsangkar, A.Bischoff, P.Geological Engineering