Our Services


Onshore Mining and
Civil Engineering

 

 

Advanced Geomechanics can provide a range of geotechnical services for mining and civil engineering projects, which include:

  • Site investigation definition, planning and supervision
  • Supervision of laboratory strength and classification testing
  • Site characteristics and parameter interpretation
  • Seismic risk assessment
  • Analytical and numerical modelling
  • Foundation dynamics
  • Foundation/structure interaction
  • In situ testing
  • Pile, pile group and piled raft design
  • Pile dynamics - drivability and dynamic testing
  • Pile monitoring, integrity and load testing
  • Earthworks and construction specifications
  • Ground improvement techniques
  • Preloading requirements
  • Seepage, groundwater and dewatering assessments
  • Design of foundations on expansive soils
  • Areal and foundation settlements and deformations
  • Shallow and storage tank foundation design
  • Anchored bulkhead, retaining, diaphragm and tied-back wall design
  • Slope stability studies
  • Railroad trackbed design
  • Design of water retention structures
  • Stability of tailings dams
  • Consolidation and strength-gain of tailings

For a list of Advanced Geomechanics' onshore experience, view our Major Onshore Project Experience.

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Adding Value Through Appropriate and Efficient Design

The nature of Western Australian projects dictates a constant quest for greater efficiency. Great distances and lack of infrastructure outside a few key centres pose major challenges to the economic development of mineral and energy discoveries. From this environment, innovative and efficient design, operation and management techniques have evolved.

The prime objective of Advanced Geomechanics is to add value to projects through appropriate and efficient design. Building in cost effectiveness is the basis of development planning. The ground on which facilities will stand is integral to Advanced Geomechanics' thinking. Advanced Geomechanics is skilled in the back - analysis of slope failures and innovative in the design of remedial measures.

The example shows a rock slope where the numerically modelled results indicate the most highly stressed zone coincident with the measured rupture zone. Although slope stability analyses are performed routinely, Advanced Geomechanics has the essential understanding required to make their results accurate. Designing for situations like earthquakes on submarine slopes or complex jointed rock slopes in open-cast mines is a speciality that Advanced Geomechanics can offer.

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