Upstream tailings dams may experience slope stability problems when the rate of raising is too fast. Tailings consolidate slowly due to low hydraulic conductivity. The excess pore pressures can build up due to accelerated rate of raising. The cumulative increase ...

An independent analysis must be performed in order to obain the pore water pressures for a slope stability analysis. These pore water pressure conditions may result from eth effects of construction or they may result from the natural groundwater condition. ...

The application of the consolidation equation is based on Taylor's approximate solution alone. The existence of the exact solution emerged from the analysis of the logical structure of d’Alambert's, Fourier' and Laplace's differential equations. This led to ...