Objectives
- To develop model test package for understanding the performance of retention type tailings dam subjected to seepage in a centrifuge at 30 – 40 gravities for long durations of the order of 1000 days.
- To monitor long-term migration of leachate from tailings into surrounding ground water and extent of clogging of drainage layer and seepage of tailings into retention dam material.
- To evaluate the possibility of replacing conventional materials (like used for constructing impervious core and drainage) with geosynthetic based products and evaluate their long-term performance through centrifuge model tests and laboratory tests.
- To design and develop tilting table test setup for evaluating the pseudo-static stability of retention type tailings dam section in a centrifuge.
- To perform parametric study for understanding their effect on static and pseudo-static stability behaviour of retention type tailings dams through centrifuge model tests.
- To perform numerical model studies for evaluating static and pseudo-static stability behaviour of retention type tailings dams and compare with centrifuge model test results.
- To evolve at guidelines for the design of retention type tailings dam facilities.