Two methodologies are typically employed in monitoring tailings dams/levees:
- internal deformation, settlement, load, and pore pressure;
- external deformation and leakage.
Both methodologies should be employed. External monitoring is important but internal stability of the structures always provides leading indicators of failure, i.e. it provides more time for mitigation of potential failures.
This webinar will outline several methods for each type of monitoring, and outline their strengths and weaknesses; including Satellite Radar (InSAR), Ground-Based Radar, In-Place Inclinometers, Shape Accelerometer Arrays, Settlement Sensors, Pressure Cells, Piezometers, GPS, Robotic Total Stations, Wire Extensometers, and Weirs.
Main Speaker
 |
Alex Neuwirt Alex Neuwirt has over 30 years of electronics and software development as well as field experience in data acquisition and control. As president of Canary Systems for over 20 years, he has designed and overseen effective risk management solutions for tailings facilities at dozens of mines. He has developed, in whole or part, many types of hardware and software products for use in the field of data acquisition, including dataloggers, signal conditioning products for numerous types of instruments with a specialty in vibrating wire instrumentation, and software. His areas of expertise also include system integration and telemetry, whether wired or wireless. |
