Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm
Mechanics, Monitoring, and Decision-Making Under Uncertainty
Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm
ISBN: 978-1-041-44725-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Tailings facilities cannot be fully verified at commissioning. They are built incrementally over decades, and their geometry, stress state, drainage pathways, and risk profile change as they grow. Defensible Tailings Engineering offers a technically rigorous framework for designing, evaluating, and managing these facilities under conditions of unavoidable uncertainty.
The book begins with the mechanics of tailings behavior (hydraulic deposition, consolidation, drainage evolution, stress paths, foundation response, and failure mechanisms) and builds toward performance confirmation, analytical proportionality, and explicit uncertainty management. Its contribution is not new design formulas but the integration of geotechnical mechanics with engineering decision logic: how to interpret monitoring data, recognize when assumptions no longer hold, decide when analytical escalation is warranted, and select proportionate risk-reduction measures. It also addresses who holds the authority to decide what level of risk is acceptable, and how those decisions are communicated and defended. Synthesis tables, case-based appendices, and decision frameworks connect analysis, observation, and action in real operating environments.
Written for practicing engineers, Engineers of Record, independent review boards, regulators, and technical leaders who must justify decisions under scrutiny, the book gives readers both deeper technical understanding and a disciplined way to remain defensible across a facility's full lifecycle, through changing conditions, evolving standards, and retrospective evaluation after incidents. Where consequences are high and certainty is unattainable, it offers a coherent method for remaining technically sound, proportionate, and accountable over time.
Zielgruppe
Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, and Professional Reference
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Technische Wissenschaften Sonstige Technologien | Angewandte Technik Bergbau, Hüttenwesen
- Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Industrial Engineering
- Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technik: Allgemeines
- Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Technische Mechanik | Werkstoffkunde
- Technische Wissenschaften Bauingenieurwesen Technische Dynamik (Modalanalyse), Erdbebensicherheit
- Technische Wissenschaften Bauingenieurwesen Boden- und Felsmechanik, Geotechnik
- Technische Wissenschaften Bauingenieurwesen Baukonstruktion, Baufachmaterialien
- Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umwelttechnik
- Technische Wissenschaften Umwelttechnik | Umwelttechnologie Umwelttechnik
- Technische Wissenschaften Bauingenieurwesen Bauingenieurwesen
Weitere Infos & Material
Part I — Understanding Tailings Behavior
Chapter 1 — Why Tailings Facilities Are Different
Chapter 2 — Characterization as Obligation
Chapter 3 — Foundations, Sites, and Hidden Controls on Performance
Chapter 4 — Water, Time, and Assumption Decay
Part II — Choosing Where and How to Build
Chapter 5 — Site Selection as a Risk and Performance Decision
Chapter 6 — Comparing Alternatives and Making Trade-Offs
Chapter 7 — Construction Choices and Performance Pathways
Part III — Confirming Performance Over Time
Chapter 8 — Monitoring, Interpretation, and Progressive Performance Verification
Chapter 9 — Reconciling Observed and Predicted Performance
Part IV — Failure, Credibility, and Acceptable Risk
Chapter 10 — Credible Failure Mechanisms and the Burden of Recognition
Chapter 11 — Acceptable Risk and Who Decides
Part V — Analysis, Judgment, and Their Limits
Chapter 12 — Risk Reduction, ALARP, and the Boundaries of Proportionality
Chapter 13 — Models, Sensitivity, and What Analysis Can — and Cannot — Tell Us
Chapter 14 — Integrated Judgment and the Limits of Analysis
Part VI — Defensibility Under Uncertainty
Chapter 15 — What It Means for a Decision to Be Defensible
Chapter 16 — Governance, Continuity, and Institutional Memory
Chapter 17 — Engineering Judgment in the Age of Data
Epilogue
Endnotes and References
Appendices
Appendix A — Failure Progression in Tailings Systems
Appendix B — Operating Tailings Facilities and Design Approaches
Appendix C — Major Tailings Failures and Lessons Learned
Appendix D — Siting, Climate, and Environmental Constraint Cases
Glossary
Index
