The mining tailings disposal system is often associated to the construction of large retaining systems, either for the great volume of materials generated by industrial plants or for the impossibility or difficulty of grants for new disposal areas. Due to increasing demand, these impoundments have become much more significant, triggering considerable in...
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View ArticleWhen soils are inundated with liquids other than water, a physicochemical interaction takes place and can alter the soil behavior. Depending on the type of soil and on the solution, the soil can become more compressible and lose strength (or the contrary). In this paper, tropical residual gneiss soils are used, namely lateritic and saprolitic soils. The...
View ArticleThe hydraulic conductivity for unsaturated soil conditions is more difficult to estimate than for the saturated condition. In addition, as the soil transitions from intact to cracked, the difficulty in estimating the unsaturated hydraulic conductivity increases. One critical step in the determination of unsaturated flow hydraulic conductivity is the eva...
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