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Tailings are the byproduct of the mining industry. The minerals mined by these mining industries are only about 3 to 5% pure, so the rest, 97 to 95%, become the tailings. It is being said that the increasing population has increased the demand for minerals for various uses. This demand produces a massive volume of tailings that, when disposed of inadequately, causes several failures and has cost lives in some cases. Therefore, a proper study of the design and safety of these structures is needed. This study aims to understand the stability variation of different tailings construction methods with different seismic loads. In this paper, the seismic slope stability of tailings dam is done by varying the slope angle of each dyke and material properties for three methods of construction – upstream, centerline, and downstream method of construction under different seismic loading. The numerical study is done in GeoStudio software.
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Aswathi, T.S., Jakka, R.S. (2022). Parametric Study of Seismic Slope Stability of Tailings Dam. In: Wang, L., Zhang, JM., Wang, R. (eds) Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Performance Based Design in Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering (Beijing 2022). PBD-IV 2022. Geotechnical, Geological and Earthquake Engineering, vol 52. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11898-2_175
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