... 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...

... to rockfill dam structures. New features of rockfill behaviour were observed during this experimental programme. These are described in the paper. Moreover, the previously proposed constitutive model has been reformulated in order to extend its capabilities to cover these new features. Figure 1...

...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...