Searching for the 3D Critical Slip Surface in an Open Pit Mine Using Spline Surfaces

Terence Ma; Sina Javankhoshdel; Brigid Cami; Reginald E. Hammah; Brent Corkum

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Searching for the 3D Critical Slip Surface in an Open Pit Mine Using Spline Surfaces

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Terence Ma¹^{, *}, Sina Javankhoshdel¹, Brigid Cami¹, Reginald E. Hammah¹, Brent Corkum¹

¹Rocscience, Toronto, ON, M5T1V1, Canada

^*Corresponding author. Email: terence.ma@rocscience.com

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Terence Ma

Available Online 8 November 2023.

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Keywords: spline; search; limit equilibrium; slope stability; optimization; factor of safety; open pit; NURBS
Abstract: The use of software for 3D slope stability is becoming increasingly popular due to advances in computing technology. Though slip surfaces in slope stability are rarely circular in nature, many modern practitioners still rely on limit equilibrium results using spherical or ellipsoidal slip surfaces. Restricting slip surfaces to the spherical or ellipsoidal domain can lead to un-conservative results due to inflexibility of the slip surface during optimization. As the technology for identifying critical slips in slopes continues to improve, a new method which optimizes the shape of a slip surface using flexible splines in 3D was recently proposed. The method is applied in this paper towards the analysis of an open pit mine. Some simplification steps for complex models are presented which are recommended to be taken during the modelling procedure to increase the speed of searching for the critical slip surface and filter out unnecessary entities in the analysis, such as near-vertical weak layers and weak layers with reverse curvature.
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Volume Title: Proceedings of the Rocscience International Conference (RIC 2023)
Series: Atlantis Highlights in Engineering
Publication Date: 8 November 2023
ISBN: 10.2991/978-94-6463-258-3_39
ISSN: 2589-4943
DOI: 10.2991/978-94-6463-258-3_39 How to use a DOI?
Open Access: Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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