GDS Case Study Published in Ground Engineering

GDS’ latest case study has been published in the renowned Ground Engineering magazine. The case study on the Fundão Mine tailings dam failure, has been prepared solely by GDS following its review and interpretation of the publicly available technical report.

This case study briefly summarises some of the many geotechnical engineering findings reported by the panel. Specifically, it focuses on aspects of the advanced laboratory testing programme conducted during the investigation, which employed an advanced cyclic direct simple shear apparatus designed and manufactured by GDS Instruments.

The full case study, can be viewed on Ground Engineering’s website from the following link…

 https://www.geplus.co.uk/features/technical-note-fundao-mine-tailings-dam-failure-12-02-2020/