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2023 / ATC Papers / Dams Engineering / Tailings Management

Assessment of Foundation Liquefaction for a Tailings Retaining Structure

In recent years, the world has observed the catastrophic impacts of tailings dam failures. Resulting impacts of these were many deaths and widespread environmental destruction. Liquefaction has been a major cause of tailings dam failure in the past and may occur in saturated soils under static or seismic loading conditions

Y. Tan, ATC Williams

B.Ghahreman-Nejad, ATC Williams

ANCOLD, Cairns. 2023

2018 / ATC Papers / Dams Engineering / Tailings Management / Water Management

Optimum embankment design for a tailings dam

B. Ghahreman-Nejad, ATC Williams, Australia

A. Fyans, ATC Williams, Australia

Optimum embankment design for a tailings dam, in Proceedings Mine Waste and Tailings Stewardship Conference 2018, pp 427-438

2015 / Conference / Non ATC Papers

SRTM data: When is it appropriate?

Design flow estimates require evaluation of catchment properties such as catchment area, catchment slope, and stream length. Detailed terrain data can be expensive to purchase, especially in regional Australia where terrain capture must be commissioned. It has become common practice to supplement terrain data with Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) data with a grid resolution of down to approximately 30 m.

A. Chapman – Kellogg Brown and Root Pty Ltd., Australia

E. Symons – Kellogg Brown and Root Pty Ltd., Australia

36th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium: The art and science of water, 1, 1, 2015, 899-906

2014 / Conference / Non ATC Papers / Report / Water Management

Interpolating and modelling rainfall events across very large catchments

Following several recent devastating flood events in Queensland, KBR was commissioned by Central Highlands Regional Council to undertake a floodplain management study and develop a management plan. This study involved the development of a large-scale hydrological model accounting for approximately 131,000 km² or just over 90% of the entire Fitzroy River basin to accurately represent the flooding conditions for two major flood events

R. Caird – Kellogg Brown & Root Pty

A. Chapman – Kellogg Brown & Root Pty

Visions to Realities – STORMWATER QUEENSLAND Conference, Noosa, 2014

2018 / Dams Engineering / Journal / Non ATC Papers / Water Management

Improved information for future decision-making

A Chapman, Kellogg Brown and Root Pty Ltd., Australia,

B Wilkinson, Central highlands Regional Council, Emerald, Australia,

Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium (HWRS 2018): Water and Communities. Melbourne: Engineers Australia, 2018: 158-169.

2013 / Journal / Non ATC Papers / Water Management

Sand Canal Beach Restoration in Urban Waterways

Erosion of the sand beaches at Newport Waterways has resulted in sand from the upper beach being deposited under pontoons and vessels which can lead to grounding damage at very low tides. Following a site inspection, the main cause of erosion was identified as being uncontrolled stormwater run-off from the residential properties facing the canal.

A. Chapman, Kellogg Brown & Root Pty Ltd

P. Cummings, Kellogg Brown & Root Pty Ltd

21st Australasian Coastal and Ocean Engineering Conference

2008 / Dams Engineering / Non ATC Papers / Report / Technical Paper / Water Management

The influence of infrastructure embankments on the consequences of dam failure

Dam break inundation mapping is the first part of the assessment of the consequences of failure of a dam. Although there has been significant expenditure on research on the breach hydrograph, there has been little attention given to the influence of infrastructure embankments across the inundated area on flow paths, depth of inundation and consequences

A. J. BROWN, Jacobs. UK
A. CHAPMAN, Jacobs, UK
J. D. GOSDEN, Jacobs, UK
F. J. B. SMITH, Jacobs, UK

Thomas Telford Limited 2008, Ensuring reservoir safety into the future. January 2008, 80-94

2015 / Non ATC Papers / Water Management

Whole of basin flood modelling

Subsequent to the findings of the Queensland Floods Commission of Inquiry, Kellogg Brown & Root Pty Ltd was commissioned by the Department of Natural Resources and Mines to prepare whole of basin flood maps for 16 coastal river basins ranging in size from 1600 km2 to 142,700 km2 to improve flood emergency awareness in Queensland. The maps and animations developed provided an appreciation of flood magnitude for both the 1% Annual Exceedance Probable flood event and an extreme event intended to approximate the probable maximum flood.

Haydn Betts – Kellogg Brown and Root Pty Ltd., Australia,

Graeme Milligan – Department of Natural Resources and Mines, Queensland,

Robert Caird – Kellogg Brown and Root Pty Ltd., Australia,

Andrew Chapman – Kellogg Brown and Root Pty Ltd., Australia,

36th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium: The art and science of water, 1, 1, 2015, 871-878

2006 / Ground Engineering / Journal / Non ATC Papers / Tailings Management

Optimising the Erosional Performance of Store and Release Covers through Appropriate Landform Design

Increasingly store and release covers are being provided to tailings, waste rock and heap leach facilities as part of the closure design with the purpose of controlling percolation of rainfall runoff through these facilities. While the focus in design is on the specification of the cover with respect to percolation performance, the success of the cover over the long term is highly dependent on erosional stability.

G. McPhail – Metago Environmental Engineers (Australia) Pty Ltd
A. van Koersveld – Metago Environmental Engineers (Australia) Pty Ltd

AB Fourie & M Tibbett (eds), Mine Closure 2006: Proceedings of the First International Seminar on Mine Closure, Australian Centre for Geomechanics, Perth, pp. 549-557

2011 / ATC Papers / Conference / Dams Engineering / Numerical Modelling / Tailings Management

Numerical Modelling of Seismic Liquefaction for Bobadil Tailings Dam

One of the causes of tailings dam failure has been seismically induced liquefaction during earthquakes. Liquefaction, if mobilised, significantly reduces the stiffness and strength of affected soils in the embankment dam or its foundation and may lead to large deformations and dam failure.

B. Ghahreman Nejad ATC Williams Pty Ltd

H. Taiebat School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of New South Wales

M. Dillon ATC Williams Pty Ltd

K. Seddon ATC Williams Pty Ltd

2011 ANCOLD Conference

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Optimum embankment design for a tailings dam

SRTM data: When is it appropriate?

Interpolating and modelling rainfall events across very large catchments

Improved information for future decision-making

Sand Canal Beach Restoration in Urban Waterways

The influence of infrastructure embankments on the consequences of dam failure

Whole of basin flood modelling

Optimising the Erosional Performance of Store and Release Covers through Appropriate Landform Design

Numerical Modelling of Seismic Liquefaction for Bobadil Tailings Dam

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