SHEAR STRENGTH OF MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE FOR STABILITY ANALYSIS

In this research work, investigate the shear strength properties of the municipal solid waste retrieved from a landfill in the Pandya Khari site in Ujjain city, Madhya Pradesh using laboratory testing program Direct Shear Test. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of waste composition and decomposition on the shear strength of municipal solid waste. Shear strength of municipal solid waste is a function of many factors such as waste type, composition, compaction, daily cover, moisture content, age, decomposition, overburden pressure. The municipal solid waste is a heterogeneous mixture of various kinds of solid waste which are not transported with water as sewage, and may include biodegradable (putrescible) food waste called garbage, and the non–putrescible solid wastes like paper, glass, rags, metal, items etc. called rubbish.The final findings indicated that shear strength of the solid waste material collected for the Ujjain city, MP depends on moisture content, dry unit weight of material, composition of solid material (cardboard, polythene, stone etc.), and rate of loading, age and compactness of material.