Table 1.

Review of recent K0 assumptions in TSF failure panel reports

Failure panelReferenceK0 for CPT interpretation (where needed)
FundãoMorgenstern et al. (2016) 0.5a
CadiaJefferies et al. (2019) 0.7
FeijãoRobertson et al. (2019) 0.5
a

Used for Plewes method interpretation, with results presented in CPT appendix. However, this was not, apparently, used in developing the characteristic state estimate of Ψ for the tailings (Reid, 2019)

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