... behaviour of opencast mining backfills; (b) the performance of rockfill dams; (c) the effectiveness of ground treatment; and (d) the condition assessment of embankment dams. In each of these areas the lecture focuses on the results of long-term field monitoring at a number of sites, from which some general...

...L. A. Oldecop; E. E. Alonso 02 05 2002 18 11 2002 © 2003 Thomas Telford Ltd 2003 constitutive model oedometer rockfill suction A conceptual mechanism of rockfill deformation was postulated by Oldecop & Alonso (2001) on the basis of the observed rockfill...

...M. Kikusawa Seismic conditions considerably affect the stability of a rockfill dam in current design method. Thus in the present study pseudostatic analyses are conducted for a typical dam with a central impervious wall by means of a limit equilibrium method and an upperbound limit analysis (Rigid...