- Title
- Rainfall affected stability analysis of Maddingley brown coal eastern batter using plaxis 3D
- Creator
- Zhao, Lei; You, Greg
- Date
- 2020
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/174032
- Identifier
- vital:14797
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-020-06038-7
- Identifier
- ISBN:1866-7511 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- Rainfall is a common factor that triggers the instability of Victorian Brown Coal (VBC) open pits which facilitate some of the largest brown coal mining operations. There has been no relevant study on rainfall-induced slope instability of VBC open pits in literature. In this paper, a three-dimensional (3D) two-phase (fluid-solid) coupled finite element method (FEM) was employed to investigate the stability of Maddingley Brown Coal (MBC) eastern batter under different rainfall conditions. It was found that the batter tends to lead a circular failure path during large rainfall. With the increase in either precipitation period or rainfall intensity, the deformation, excess pore pressure and active pressure increased, while the matric suction decreased. The hydrostatic force in the confined aquifer underlying the brown coal seam increased during rainfall; meanwhile, the resisting force decreased. As a result, the shear strength decreased and thereby the stability of the batter decreased. The safety factor and the critical failure path of the eastern batter simulated in this study were consistent with the previous study on the Northern batter. This study is a strong supplement to the literature on rainfall-induced instability of VBC batters. In the meantime, it is significant to provide a reference to the application of sophisticated 3D numerical modelling for studying slope instability of brown coal and similar mineral deposits. © 2020, Saudi Society for Geosciences.; The study is supported by the Australian Research Training Program (RTP) Scholarship and Federation University Australia George Collins Memorial Scholarship
- Publisher
- Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
- Relation
- Arabian Journal of Geosciences Vol. 13, no. 20 (2020), p.
- Rights
- Copyright @ Saudi Society for Geosciences 2020
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Rights
- Open Access
- Subject
- 0403 Geology; Brown coal; Numerical simulation; Open-pit mining; Rainfall; Stability
- Full Text
- Reviewed
- Funder
- The study is supported by the Australian Research Training Program (RTP) Scholarship and Federation University Australia George Collins Memorial Scholarship
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