Training

3rd Rock Consulting has a wealth of practical experience and academic knowledge in geotechnical management and can provide the following on-site training to your organisation

Key areas covered:

  • Types of waste dumps
  • Shear strength theory of loose rock – Barton Kajernsli, Mohr Coloumb
  • Laboratory testing
  • Deriving shear strength parameters
  • Loading conditions
  • 2D and 3D analysis
  • Design charts

Key areas covered

  • Why do we need to carry out laboratory testing?
  • Field work, sample management and point load testing
  • Developing a lab testing program for Pilbara settings
  • Geotechnical laboratory testing for soils – Indicator tests
  • Geotechnical laboratory testing for soils – Classification and unsaturated behaviour
  • Geotechnical laboratory testing for soils – Shear Strength Tests
  • Geotechnical laboratory testing for rocks – UCS and Hoek Triaxial
  • Geotechnical laboratory testing for rocks – Direct Shear Tests
  • Geological/structural model and data validation
  • Developing rock mass models
  • Assessing the fundamental geotechnical parameters
  • Estimating reduced parameter values for sensitivity analyses.
  • Developing the geotechnical design parameters
  • Statistical evaluation of data

Key topics covered:

  • Need for Unsaturated Soil Mechanics.
  • Natural condition of Unsaturated Soils
  • Phase properties of soils
  • Stress state variables for unsaturated soils
  • SWCC Introduction and definition
  • Dimensionless & Normalized Water Content
  • Wetting curves and drying curves
  • Equations
  • SWCC parameters
  • Lab testing
  • Permeability function
  • Overview of theory of shear strength of
    saturated soils
  • Extended Mohr-Coulomb Failure Envelope for Unsaturated Soil
  • Comparison and discussions
  • UDST lab tests
  • Developing the extended MC envelope from lab testing
  • Case Studies
  • Monitoring

Key topics covered:

  • Phase properties of soils
  • Grading curves
  • Atterberg Limits
  • Soil classification
  • Saturated permeability
  • Saturated shear strength
  • Consolidation
  • Laboratory testing

Key topics covered:

  • History
  • Development of the ALM
  • Numerical Modelling
  • The incorporation of anisotropic shear strength into the method of slices
  • AM1, ALM2, ALM3
  • Using the ALM model

Key topics covered:

  • What information is to be used
  • Understanding the geological setting
  • Hydrology and hydrogeology
  • Geotechnical laboratory testing
  • Geological/Structural model and data validation
  • Developing rock mass models
  • Assessing the fundamental geotechnical parameters
  • Developing the geotechnical design parameters
  • Geotechnical model and domains
  • Assessing potential failure modes
  • Stability analysis procedures
  • Evaluating stability analysis results and domaining
  • Recommendations and actions

Key topics covered:

  • Introduction
  • The Importance of Geotec – Safety Continuity of Production
  • The Importance of Geotec -Financials & Continuity of Production
  • Geotec Design vs Geotec Operations Management
  • The Geotechnical Design Process
  • Failure Mechanisms
  • Slope Design Considerations (Introduction)
  • Basic Mechanics
  • Data Collection
  • Laboratory Testing and Interpretation
  • Rock Mass Strength and Deformation
  • Geotechnical Data Analysis
  • Rock Defect Strength and Deformation
  • Case Study – Parameter Strength Estimation
  • Groundwater
  • Rotational Failure
  • Planar Failure
  • Wedge Failures
  • Complex Modes of Failure
  • Aniosotropic Linear Model and Ongoing Research
  • Case studies – Slope stability analyses
  • Slope Design Considerations Incl Batter-Berm Design
  • Sensitivity Studies
  • Mining through Voids
  • Slope Formation
  • Limits Blasting
  • Slope Monitoring
  • Interpretation of Deformation Behaviour

Key topics covered:

  • Introduction
  • SV Designer creating 2D models
  • SV Designer Creating 3D models
  • SVSlope – 2D LEM slope stability analysis
  • SVSlope – 3D LEM slope stability analysis
  • SVFlux – groundwater and consolidation modelling
  • SV Solid – Deformation finite element modelling
  • SV Soils
  • Case studies

Key topics covered:

  • Theory of InSAR
  • Sensors/ Satellites
  • Beam modes
  • Data processing
  • Examples

Key topics covered:

  • Introduction and overview for closure
  • Regulatory issues
  • Types of waste landforms
  • The landform development process
  • Design and types of covers for PAF and NAF waste dumps
  • Basic design principals
  • Advanced design principals (store and release covers)
  • Water balance modelling
  • Numerical modelling
  • Construction and blending of materials
  • Closure bunds
  • Management after reliquishment
  • Case studies

Key topics covered:

  • Case studies and learnings from the past
  • Organisational risk management
  • Risk managment methodology for managing large waste landform risk
  • Managing the physical risks of open pit mining
  • Managing the geochemical risks
  • Managing the operational risks
  • Closure risks
  • Managing waste landform risks for closure and in abandonment
  • Managing risks in perpetuity