Behavior of Cemented Paste Backfill in Two Mine Stopes: Measurements and Modeling
- 1 February 2011
- journal article
- Published by American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
- Vol. 137 (2), 171-182
- https://doi.org/10.1061/(asce)gt.1943-5606.0000418
Abstract
Over the past decade there has been increasing use of “paste” for backfilling of mined-out voids (“stopes”) in underground mines. Paste backfill is generated from full stream tailings and is almost always placed underground with cement. This paper presents field measurements and back analysis of two different cemented paste backfill (CPB) cases. Using the collected data and subsequent back analysis, the writers show that these two cases demonstrate considerably different consolidation behaviors, which in turn influence critical design and management aspects such as applied barricade stresses and choice of an appropriate curing technique for laboratory control specimens. The paper presents pore pressure and total stress monitoring data gathered from two different CPBs during the deposition process. Both filling cases are modeled using Minefill-2D, which is a finite-element (FE) model capable of fully coupling the time-dependent processes of fill accretion, consolidation, cement hydration, and stress archin...This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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