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Technical University of Munich

Deformation characteristics of coarse and mixed grained soils in dumps of the Rhenish lignite mining region

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Dr.-Ing Stefan Vogt

Dr.-Ing Emanuel Birle

Reclamation and resettlement on lignete mining dumps

Agricultural use
Forest
Motorway under construction on the dump of the Garzweiler open cast mine

Dumping concept for infrastructure measures

Dumping concept for reducing potential settlements
Settlement under self-wheigt of dumped and loose coarse grained soils

Prediction of the time-dependent settlements under the self-weight of the dumped soils

Exemplary simulation of a dumping process and prediction of settlements under
self-weight by using the Finite-Element method and a visco-plastic soil model
Results of the simulation show the strong influence of the resting time on the time-dependent settlement

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