Technical Papers

What Could Tailings Facility Engineering Look Like in 2030?

The following are a series of presentations...

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Evaluating Impacts of Climate Change on Snowmelt and Rain-on-Snow Events Across Canada

In Canada, dams and water management infrastruc...

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Development of BC Hydro’s 2021 Safety/Debris Boom Design Guidelines

Public safety is at the forefront of the profes...

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Seismic Liquefaction Assessment of an Existing Facility in the Lower Mainland using PM4SILT and PM4SAND

New developments are planned at an existing fac...

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Geotechnical Assessment of Mine Rock Storage Facilities for Long-term Multi-purpose Use

Mine rock storage facilities (MRSFs) are often ...

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The S020 Rockfall Geohazard: Combining Change Detection Results and Condition Assessment Tools to Advance Geotechnical Asset Management

The S020 rockfall geohazard site is part of Alb...

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GRiPS: A GIS-Based Risk Prioritization and Hazard Alert Tool for Railway Geohazards

ABSTRACT The Canadian National Railway track t...

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1D and 2D site response analysis for an existing tailings storage facility

Failure of tailings dams due to liquefaction, c...

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Assessment of an empirical equation to predict long-term pore-water pressures in the clay shale at Gardiner Dam

Numerous curve-fitting methods have been develo...

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Investigation into the Stability and Liquefaction Susceptibility of a Tailings Dam in Brazil during Excavation

Tailings dam failure can lead to catastrophic c...

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