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A framework to determine soil-water retention relation for mine wastes and its applications in emergency risk assessment

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HYDROLOGY RESEARCH
卷 52, 期 2, 页码 389-413

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IWA PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.2166/nh.2021.126

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emergency risk assessment; mine waste; soil-water characteristic curve; tailing; unsaturated soil

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  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [51674238, 41902258, U1967208]
  2. National Key R&D Program of China [2019YFE0100100-04]

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This study analyzed the soil-water retention characteristics of typical tailing samples, and found that the Vanapalli-2005 model was the most suitable for these samples. It proposed a generalized emergency risk assessment model and a framework for quick parameter estimation in the SWCC, which can be helpful in predicting water levels in tailing dams and waste dumps during rainstorm or flooding conditions.
Tailing dams and waste dumps formed by the accumulation of mine wastes are usually at long-term unsaturated state under evaporation and consolidated drainage conditions. Soil-water retention relation is one of the key constitutive relations to analyze the seepage processes in tailing dams and waste dumps. In this study, typical coarse- and fine-grained tailings from a metallurgical mine were chosen to study the soil-water retention characteristics of the tailing samples. To begin with, the relationship between volumetric water content and suction of the tailing samples was experimentally measured, and typical soil-water characteristic curves (SWCCs) (i.e., Gardner, van Genuchten and Fredlund-Xing curves) were applied to fit the experimental data. After that, four empirical models to estimate the parameters in SWCCs (i.e., Aubertin-1998 model, Aubertin-2003 model, Vanapalli-2005 model and Chin-2010 model) were tested, and the Vanapalli-2005 model was the best-fit model for the tailing samples. Furthermore, this study proposes a generalized emergency risk assessment soil-water retention characteristics model for tailing dams and waste dumps, and a framework for the quick estimation of parameters in the SWCC is proposed as well. The recommended soil-water retention characteristics model and the related parameters can be used to predict water levels in tailing dams and waste dumps, which are very helpful for emergency risk assessment under rainstorm or flooding conditions.

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