The use of stress–deformation analyses to evaluate the characteristics of possible static liquefaction events is rapidly becoming the norm for tailings dams exposed to such risk. Ideally, those analyses should be based on ...

An analysis of the conditions that led to the failure of the Aznalcóllar dam is made in the paper. Pore water pressures prevailing in the foundation clay at the time of the failure have been established on the basis of ...

This paper illustrates how pressuremeter testing may add value to geotechnical characterization of tailing storage facilities (TSF). This is done with reference to results obtained in a campaign on jarosa, a lime-stabilized ...

Las crecientes demandas energéticas están promoviendo nuevas estrategias comerciales en la explotación de las infraestructuras hidráulicas que se materializan aumentando el protagonismo de los saltos reversibles en la ...

Arguably, critical state soil mechanics (CSSM) is now the preeminent methodology for understanding static liquefaction of mine tailings, having been used in the mining industry by the expert panels retained to investigate ...

Dam behaviour is difficult to predict with high accuracy. Numerical models for structural calculation solve the equations of continuum mechanics, but are subject to considerable uncertainty as to the characterisation of ...

The presence of potentially liquefiable deposits in tailing dams represents a serious hazard, as is now increasingly clear that liquefaction triggering may occur in unanticipated ways. For legacy dams in which this hazard ...