An Engineering Craft: Stability Modelling of Tailings Storage Facilities

Rocscience is pleased to announce a training course in Muldersdrift, South Africa, on applying the company's software suite to modelling and solving tailings dam stability challenges. This three-day training course is designed for all experience levels and will be taught by world-class specialists.

The course aims to facilitate a proactive approach to the stability analysis of tailings storage facilities (TSFs) that better anticipates and mitigates stability risks over their lifespan. It will help professionals to maximize the insights they can glean from incomplete information and improve their understanding of material behaviours and site investigations. The course desires to help the tailings community to recognize any weaknesses in the engineering and performance of TSFs long before these flaws evolve into failures.

The course will provide insights into drained and undrained behaviours of tailings, embankment materials and foundation soils. It will give essential know-how on soil mechanics, tailings properties and behaviour, geotechnical engineering, and impact/ influence of groundwater pressures. It will focus on loose silty sandy tailings and soils and weak slimes (contractive materials) that can liquefy under static and dynamic loads with extreme consequences.

This three-day course will help participants achieve these goals by learning the following state-of-the-art software: Slide2 and RS2 (and introduction to Slide3 and RS3). These programs incorporate current best-practice geotechnical knowledge and modelling technologies to model TSF behaviours and performance. It will review limit equilibrium and finite element advances for modelling TSF behaviours under different loading conditions and at various stages of development.

The course is intended for professionals (Engineers of Record, Owners, Consultants, Regulators, and Responsible Tailings Facility Engineers) who seek to understand tailings dams' stability performance better and broaden their knowledge of recent TSF modelling advancements. Other mine specialists, such as Mill Superintendents and Metallurgical Engineers, who need a basic working knowledge of TSF stability assessment, may also attend.

• Course Date: November 14-16, 2022
• Venue: Misty Hills Country Hotel, Conference Centre & Spa, 69 Drift Boulevard, Muldersdrift (Johannesburg) 2198, South Africa.
• Languages: The course will be conducted in English
• Registration Fees:
  • Early Bird - USD $700 (until October 25th, 2022)
  • Regular - USD $900

Offer: Registrants who have Rocscience Maintenance+ plans get a 10% discount on the course fee.

Fore more details and to register, visit the event page.