Stability Analyses Of Footwall Slopes In Open Pit Mining
- Leandro R. Alejano Monge 1
- Abel Sánchez Juncal 1
- 1 Universidad de Vigo, España. Geociencias. Medio- Ambiente. Tecnologías
ISSN: 0012-7353
Année de publication: 2010
Volumen: 77
Número: 161
Pages: 61-70
Type: Article
D'autres publications dans: DYNA: revista de la Facultad de Minas. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Sede Medellín
Résumé
In this paper we analyse different failure mechanisms typically associated to footwall slopes, in order to evaluate its stability using the numeric code UDEC. These results will then be analysed and contrasted against the “Limit Equilibrium Method” (LEM) to determine the use of UDEC as a valid tool in footwall slope analysis. Two real cases, where the footwall slope failure took place through complex mechanisms, are finally analysed using UDEC.