Coal has remained the primary component of China’s energy structure, and high-intensity extraction has continued in the central and western coal-producing regions of China. In contrast to the abundant coal resources, water resources have become...
Dam stability is one of the most essential geotechnical engineering challenges. Studying the structural behavior of dams during their useful life is an essential component of their safety. Terrestrial surveying network approaches are typically expens...
It is of great significance to study the cracking risk, the overall stability, and the reinforcement measures of arch dams for ensuring long-term safety. In this study, the cracking types and factors of arch dams are summarized. By employing a nonlin...
In this paper, the research progress made in the methods used for assessing the internal stability of landslide dam soils was reviewed. Influence factors such as the gradation of soil and the stress state in the soil in different analysis methods wer...
Along the middle reaches of the Dnieper River in central Ukraine, braided riverbeds with many islands have developed in alluvial valleys. In the 1970s, six dams were commissioned, and respective monitoring infrastructure was installed. Riverbanks and...
Effective methods for extending the storage capacity of tailings for a mining company include expanding and increasing the height of the tailings dam. However, this change could lead to an uplift in the phreatic line and a decrease in the slope stabi...
The presented article provides a comprehensive study on the stability analysis of earth-fill dams under rapid drawdown and transient flow conditions used to prepare stability analysis charts by conducting coupled finite-element numerical and analytic...
Tailings dams are special constructions that are part of a complex of works related to the installations for preparing mining masses. These constructions play a role in the mechanical treatment of wastewater and the safe storage of sterile material r...
The Tiga Dam, a primary hydraulic structure in northern Nigeria, is subjected to intense hydrological stress during the rainy season, posing potential risks to its structural integrity. This study investigates the geotechnical properties and stabilit...
There is a proposed dam at Weito in Ethiopia’s Southern Nations Nationalities and People Regional State. This embankment-type dam primarily serves irrigation purposes. Weito’s proposed dam’s slope stability is the primary focus of t...
Ensuring the long-term, efficient, and safe operation of reservoir dams relies on the slope stability of embankment dams. Periodic fluctuations of the reservoir water level due to reservoir scheduling operations make the slope of the reservoir bank v...
Anthropogenic activities related to mining generate both progress and a vast amount of waste that is responsible for environmental degradation. The Jiu Valley is one of the areas of Romania where mining has affected large areas of land, used to build...
Fractured seepage is an important factor affecting the interface stability of rock mass. It is closely related to fracture properties and hydraulic conditions. In this study, the law of seepage in a single fracture surface based on modified cubic law...
This study assesses the risks of glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) from moraine sediment dams around Gurudongmar Lake in the Northern Sikkim Himalayas at an elevation of 17,800 feet. It focuses on three moraine sediment dams, analysing the implica...
Tailings ponds are recognized as significant sources of potential man-made debris flow and major environmental disasters. Recent frequent tailings dam failures and growing trends in fine tailings outputs underscore the critical need for innovative mo...
Slope instability issues could cause severe damage and endanger the population, especially when dams are concerned. Over the past years, more and more refined numerical approaches have been proposed to evaluate the slope stability. However, a criteri...
Landslide dams, especially stable landslide dams, have been recognised as important contributors to regional geomorphological evolution. The eastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau provides good conditions for the formation of stable landslide dams. To i...
Granite formations provide suitable geological conditions for building gravity dams. However, the presence of intruding granite creates a fractured zone. The interaction of this fractured zone with structural planes and faults can create geological c...
Instability of tailings dams may result in loss of life and property and serious environmental pollution. The position of the tailings dam’s phreatic line varies due to continuously changing factors such as rainfall infiltration and discharge o...
A hardfill dam can reduce the natural damage caused by the development of quarries and recycle submerged resources. However, the particle size distribution of the aggregate can result in large variations in the mix design, resulting in a wide range o...
Tailings dams are unique structures due to the materials they store and the methods applied in their construction, often resulting in complex three-dimensional (3D) problems. Most current slope-stability analyses neglect the 3D effects without signif...
Anti-sliding stability safety is a critical issue that must be given sufficient and widespread attention during the entire lifecycle of gravity dams. The calculated anti-sliding stability safety factor (ASS-SF) is usually compared with the allowable...
The purpose of establishing a tailings dam is to safely store tailings to protect the natural environment from damage. Accidents at tailings dams are frequent, however, with serious consequences of not only threats to life and property but also the p...
Tailings dam failures are often caused by seepage, posing severe threats to mine safety and downstream ecological environments. Conventional tailings stacking methods are prone to drainage blockage and slope instability under long-term seepage condit...
Significant interest has been focused on recovery rates, recovery options, and recovery utilization when tailings impoundments are re-mined. However, the stability of the tailings dams during the recovery process is also a severe issue. Based on engi...
Evaluation of the sliding stability of concrete dams requires the use of numerical tools not only able to simulate the coupled hydromechanical behavior but also able to adequately represent the foundation discontinuities and the specific features of...
In this study, the thermal stabilization of a water resource together with an energy production optimization in the power plant of the dam–reservoir coupled system is conducted. This coupled dam system is designed to consist of a primary (W ...
As a globally renowned alpine gorge region and seismically active zone, the eastern margin of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau (QTP) is highly prone to landslide dam formation. Considering unstable landslide dams often pose catastrophic risks to downs...
To overcome the limitations of rigid body limit equilibrium methods in earth rock dam slope stability analysis, this study develops a system reliability framework using the finite element strength reduction method (FEM-SRM). An elastoplastic finite e...
As one of the largest artificial geotechnical structures on earth, the tailings dams are classified as one of the high-risk sources in China’s industry. How to improve the stability and safety of tailings dams remains a challenge for mine opera...
Fluctuations in reservoir water levels have a significant impact on the seepage and slope stability of earth dams. The varying rate of the water level and soil–water characteristic curve (SWCC) hysteresis are the main factors affecting the seep...
The increasing number of extreme climate events has impacted the operation of reservoirs, resulting in drastic changes in flow releases from reservoirs. Consequently, downstream riverbanks have experienced more rapid and frequent changes of the river...
Suffusion is a primary cause of failure in hydraulic structures, including earth dams; however, the mechanisms underlying suffusion-induced failure and the stability changes remain poorly understood. This study derives and implements a sequentially c...
For the construction of dam substations in coastal or mountainous areas, inclined soft soil foundations are very common. The unique engineering characteristics of inclined soft soil foundations can bring great difficulties to the construction of dam...
In this research, we address the problem of evaluating physical stability (PS) to close tailings dams (TD) from medium-sized Chilean mining using artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms. The PS can be analyzed through the study of critical variables...
Tailings from metalliferous ore processing are stored in tailing-storage facilities. Fresh tailings contain high content of water, and this may contribute to the instability of the facilities. One way of depositing tailings into the facilities is to...
Accurately grasping the stability characteristics of high earth-rockfill dam slopes is the key to the seismic safety evaluation of dams. In this research, the development and application of the common methods for slope stability analysis are reviewed...
Instability in red mud dam bodies is not uncommon. In order to study the stability evolution mechanism during the process of red mud landfill and the deformation characteristics under earthquake action when the landfill site is closed, the deformatio...
This study investigates the local and global stability of the Luzzone Dam. Two finite element models were built; one with foundation rock, the other without. The purpose of this was to demonstrate a potential gulf between rigid connection modelling,...
We used a global positioning system (GPS), levelling, and Sentinel-1 data to evaluate the stability of the Darbandikhan dam in northeast Iraq after the 2017 Mw 7.3 Sarpol-e Zahab earthquake. GPS and levelling datasets collected in March and November...
The construction of a cut-off wall is a common reinforcement method for earth rock dams. At present, compared with the in-depth study on homogeneous earth dams, more and more attention is being paid to the stability and deformation of earth dams stre...
Although the failure of a concrete dam is a complex and highly dynamic process, the current safety assessments of concrete gravity and buttress dams rely on a simplified 2D stability analysis, which neglects the load redistribution due to 3D monolith...
A possibility of using bottom sediments from dam reservoirs in earth structures was considered. Sediments from the Rzeszow reservoir (Poland) were used as research material, which, according to geotechnical standards, were classified as low permeable...
Rainfall infiltration and groundwater fluctuations induced by cyclonic rainfall are the main causes of slope failure. Slope stability monitoring is key to preventing and controlling rock slope failure. Aiming at the monitoring theory and technical pr...
The mechanical response of geomembranes in hydraulic structures is strongly influenced by temperature variations, which alter both material stiffness and interface shear strength behavior. This study develops a non-linear, temperature-dependent tensi...
Reliable assessments of dam stability require the continuous acquisition and interpretation of deformation data, as monitoring technologies provide essential information for evaluating structural behavior. Surface displacement measurements are partic...
This study assessed the water supply stability for Boryeong multipurpose dam by applying future dry climate change scenarios and Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT). CMCC-CM, INM-CM4, and IPSL-CM5A-MR RCP 4.5 and 8.5 scenarios were selected as the...
Climate change with extreme hydrological conditions, such as drought and flood, bring new challenges to seepage behavior and the stability of earthfill dams. Taking a drought-stricken earthfill dam of China as an example, the influence of drought-flo...
Mine tailings are the byproduct of mining activities, which need to be disposed of once the minerals in the ore are extracted. They can be disposed of in either dry or wet forms. The latter is most common, with the tailings being disposed of in the f...
The importance of dams is rapidly increasing due to the impact of climate change on increasing hydrological process variability and on water planning and management need. This study tackles a review for the concrete arch-dams’ design process, f...
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