Guidelines for Evaluating Water in Pit Slope Stability

2014 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Slope Stability ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Open Pit ◽  
Rock Slopes ◽  
Hydrogeological Model ◽  
Essential Information ◽  
Road Map ◽  
Csiro Publishing ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Slope Design

Guidelines for Evaluating Water in Pit Slope Stability is a comprehensive account of the hydrogeological procedures that should be followed when performing open pit slope stability design studies. Created as an outcome of the Large Open Pit (LOP) project, an international research and technology transfer project on the stability of rock slopes in open pit mines, this book expands on the hydrogeological model chapter in the LOP project's previous book Guidelines for Open Pit Slope Design (Read & Stacey, 2009; CSIRO PUBLISHING). The book comprises six sections which outline the latest technology and best practice procedures for hydrogeological investigations. The sections cover: the framework used to assess the effect of water in slope stability; how water pressures are measured and tested in the field; how a conceptual hydrogeological model is prepared; how water pressures are modelled numerically; how slope depressurisation systems are implemented; and how the performance of a slope depressurisation program is monitored and reconciled with the design. Guidelines for Evaluating Water in Pit Slope Stability offers slope design practitioners a road map that will help them decide how to investigate and treat water pressures in pit slopes. It provides guidance and essential information for mining and civil engineers, geotechnical engineers, engineering geologists and hydrogeologists involved in the investigation, design and construction of stable rock slopes.

Guidelines for Open Pit Slope Design

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Read ◽  
Peter Stacey
Keyword(s):  
Slope Stability ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Rock Slope ◽  
Rock Slope Stability ◽  
Open Pit ◽  
Financial Return ◽  
Open Pit Mines ◽  
Management Procedures ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Slope Design

Guidelines for Open Pit Slope Design is a comprehensive account of the open pit slope design process. Created as an outcome of the Large Open Pit (LOP) project, an international research and technology transfer project on rock slope stability in open pit mines, this book provides an up-to-date compendium of knowledge of the slope design processes that should be followed and the tools that are available to aid slope design practitioners. This book links innovative mining geomechanics research into the strength of closely jointed rock masses with the most recent advances in numerical modelling, creating more effective ways for predicting rock slope stability and reliability in open pit mines. It sets out the key elements of slope design, the required levels of effort and the acceptance criteria that are needed to satisfy best practice with respect to pit slope investigation, design, implementation and performance monitoring. Guidelines for Open Pit Slope Design comprises 14 chapters that directly follow the life of mine sequence from project commencement through to closure. It includes: information on gathering all of the field data that is required to create a 3D model of the geotechnical conditions at a mine site; how data is collated and used to design the walls of the open pit; how the design is implemented; up-to-date procedures for wall control and performance assessment, including limits blasting, scaling, slope support and slope monitoring; and how formal risk management procedures can be applied to each stage of the process. This book will assist in meeting stakeholder requirements for pit slopes that are stable, in regards to safety, ore recovery and financial return, for the required life of the mine.

scholarly journals Stability Assessment and Optimization Design of Lakeside Open-Pit Slope considering Fluid-Solid Coupling Effect

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Wenchen Fan ◽  
Ping Cao ◽  
Ke Zhang ◽  
Kaihui Li ◽  
Chong Chen
Keyword(s):  
Slope Stability ◽  
Water Level ◽  
Lake Water ◽  
Optimization Design ◽  
Great Influence ◽  
Water Levels ◽  
Open Pit ◽  
Stability Of Slopes ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Slope Design

Chengmenshan copper mine, located at Jiujiang city in the Jiangxi Province, is a rarely lakeside open-pit mine in China. Since the open-pit is very close to Sai Lake, the seasonally changed water level and the distance between lake and slope have great influence to the stability of open-pit slope. Based on the drill data and geological sections, a numerical model of the slope is built. With the fluid-mechanical interaction associated, the stability of the slopes is numerically analyzed, in which different lake water levels and lake-slope distances are taken into consideration. The comparative analysis shows that a larger lake-slope distance can promise better slope stability and weaken the sensitivity of slope stability to water. The stability of slopes with different heights is analyzed to find that the stability weakens and the sensitivity is enhanced with the height increasing. To the most serious situation, the slope height and the lake water level being 238 m and 17.2 m, respectively, theFsvalue equals 1.18945 which is extremely closed to the allowable safety factor of 1.20 for slope design. According to the minimumFsfor slope design, the minimum distance between lake and open-pit slope is found to be 60 m.

Application of GM (1, N) Model on Slope Stability Analysis in Open Pit Mine

2011 ◽  
Vol 84-85 ◽  
pp. 729-732 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Guo ◽  
De Qing Gan ◽  
Yu Zhang ◽  
Wei Hang Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Stability Analysis ◽  
Slope Stability ◽  
Slope Stability Analysis ◽  
Open Pit Mine ◽  
Open Pit ◽  
Model Based ◽  
Strip Mine ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Major Factors

The paper analyzed major factors that influence the stability of open-pit slope and established the GM (1, N) model based on the program of Xingshan strip mine, which provided an effective method for evaluating the slope stability.

scholarly journals Failure of Rock Slopes With Intermittent Joints: Failure Process and Stability Calculation Models

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zihan Zhou ◽  
Yanjun Shen ◽  
Zhonghui Chen
Keyword(s):  
Inclination Angle ◽  
Failure Process ◽  
Open Pit ◽  
Rock Slopes ◽  
Type B ◽  
Stability Calculation ◽  
Open Pit Mines ◽  
Type C ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Joint Inclination

Abstract Rock slopes with intermittent joints in open-pit mines are complex geological bodies composed of intact rock and discontinuous structural planes, and their stability analysis are necessary for mine disaster prevention. In this study, a series of base friction tests were performed to determine the failure process and displacement field evolution of rock slopes with intermittent joints using the speckle technique of a noncontact measurement system. Next, stability calculation models of the slopes were established from the energy perspective using the plastic limit analysis theory, and the effects of the joint inclination angle and coalescence coefficient of rock bridges on the slope stability were evaluated. The four main conclusions are as follows. (1) The failure of rock slopes with intermittent joints shows the feature of collapse-lower traction-upper push. (2) Based on the failure modes of rock bridges in slopes, the failure of rock slopes with intermittent joints could be divided into three types: tensile coalescence (Type A), shear coalescence (Type B), and tensile–shear coalescence (Type C). (3) Among the three slope types, the stability of the Type A slope is significantly influenced by rock cohesion, whereas that the Type B slope is significantly influenced by joint cohesion. The stability of the Type C slope is significantly influenced by the joint inclination angle and joint friction angle. (4) The local-stable slope is unstable while the first through-tensile crack in the zone of the potential sliding body higher than the critical instability height appeared. This study guides the stability evaluation and instability prediction of jointed rock slopes in open-pit mines.

scholarly journals Study on shaping slope stability of dump in eastern grassland open-pit mine

2020 ◽  
Vol 194 ◽  
pp. 04043
Author(s):  
Guo Xiaoli ◽  
Yan Jiancheng ◽  
Li Xueliang ◽  
Wen Xin ◽  
Li Xingli
Keyword(s):  
Slope Stability ◽  
Slope Angle ◽  
Mining Area ◽  
Open Pit Mine ◽  
Open Pit ◽  
Open Pit Mining ◽  
Dump Slope ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Step Type ◽  
Mine Dump

The dumps in the open-pit mining area in the eastern grassland are prone to landslides due to the fragile ecological environment, so it is inevitable to reshape the dump slopes. In order to explore a more scientific method for slope shaping of open-pit mine dump, slope stability analysis were used to compare effect of three types of slope-type (wave-shaped, slope-shaped and step-shaped slope shaping method)in outside dumping site of Baori Hiller open-pit mine. The results show that the slope stability is negatively correlated with the slope angle, and the stability of different shaping slopes is realized as wave-shaped slope (F=2.711)> Slope-shaped slope(F=2.513)>Step-shaped slope(F=1.047), in which the wave type and slope type are all within the safe range, but the step type slope is unstable; in consideration of cost, stability and erosion resistance, it is better to set the slope angle of the dump to 15°.The wave-shaped shaping method of the natural dumping of the excavation field outside the Baori Hiller open-pit mine has the best effect and is worth promoting.

scholarly journals AN EVALUATION OF ROCK SLOPE STABILITY USING LIMIT EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSES

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Faridha Aprilia ◽  
I Gde Budi Indrawan
Keyword(s):  
Slope Stability ◽  
Rock Slope ◽  
Limit Equilibrium ◽  
Rock Slope Stability ◽  
Rock Slopes ◽  
Plane Failure ◽  
General Limit ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Equilibrium Analyses ◽  
Limit Equilibrium Analyses

The stability of rock slopes is controlled by several factors, such as the intact rock strength, discontinuity characteristics, groundwater condition, and slope geometry. Limit equilibrium (LE) analyses have been commonly used in geotechnical practice to evaluate the stability of rock slopes. A number of methods of LE analyses, ranging from simple to sophisticated methods, have been developed. This paper presents stability analyses of rock slopes at the Batu Hijau open mine in Sumbawa Barat using various methods of LE analyses. The LE analyses were conducted at three cross sections of the northern wall of the open mine using the Bishop Simplified, Janbu Simplified, Janbu Generalised, and General Limit Equilibrium (GLE) methods in Slide slope stability package. In addition, a Plane Failure (PF) analysis was performed manually. Shear strength data of the discontinuity planes used in the LE analyses were obtained from back analyses of previous rock slope failures. The LE analysis results showed that the rock slopes were likely to have shallow non-circular critical failure surfaces. The factor of safety (Fs) values obtained from the Bishop Simplified, Janbu Simplified, Janbu Generalised, and GLE methods were found to be similar, while the Fs values obtained from the PF method were higher than those obtained from the more rigorous methods. Keywords: Batu Hijau mine, Bishop Simplified, Janbu Simplified, Janbu Generalised, limit equilibrium analyses, general limit equilibrium, rock slope stability, plane failure.

Analysis of the Relative Position of the Slope and Underground Mining Area and its Influence Properties

2013 ◽  
Vol 634-638 ◽  
pp. 3277-3281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shi Guo Sun ◽  
Hong Yang ◽  
Chun Sheng Li ◽  
Bao Lin Zhang ◽  
Jia Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Slope Stability ◽  
Underground Mining ◽  
Mining Area ◽  
Open Pit ◽  
Stability Factor ◽  
Mining Depth ◽  
Extracellular Region ◽  
Geological Conditions ◽  
Slope Rock ◽  
The Stability

The stability state of slope rock mass is relating to each other’s relative location during the transformation from open-pit to underground mining, it’s the most disadvantageous influence on the slope stability when the underground mining area is located in the toe of slope, and it’s the best influence as in the slope extracellular region. Slope stability factor changes with the geometric dimensions of underground mining increased, but not in direct proportion. Under the condition of constant geometric dimensions of mining area, the influence on slope stability is changing with the mining depth increased. Thus indicating that the influence on slope stability by underground mining has its spatial property, and to determine the specific influence value requires a combination of many factors, such as the relationship of relative spatial position, the geometric dimensions of mining area, engineering geological conditions and so on.

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