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Illegal mine collapse in Rwanda’s Huye district followed by landslides
- Apr, 19, 2023
- Mining Underground Structures Underground Structures Landslides Other Geotechnical News On Natural Disasters / Failures Other News
- Rwanda, Butare
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
An illegal mine collapsed in the Kinazi sector of Huye district, Rwanda, on April 19. Furthermore, six workers were trapped inside the 80-meter deep collapsed mine, three of whom are senior six stu...
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ADONIS: A Free Finite Element Software for Geo-Engineers
- Mar, 21, 2023
- General Finite Element Programs Deep Excavations Earth Retaining Structures Tunneling Other Geotechnical Mining Soil Mechanics Visualization General Civil General Civil General Civil
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
ADONIS is a Free Finite Element Software for Geo-Engineers. It is an easy-to-use tool for modelling and computational simulation of geotechnical problems, including linear and nonlinear analysis me...
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Classroom swallowed by sinkhole in Zimbabwe
- Mar, 16, 2023
- Tunneling Tunneling In Soils General Civil Other Geotechnical Mining News On Natural Disasters / Failures Other News
- Zimbabwe, Kwekwe
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
A sinkhole appeared under a primary school classroom in the city of Kwekwe, Zimbabwe on Thursday, March 16. The sinkhole was attributed, by the ZimLive news outlet of Zimbabwe, to illegal mining act...
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Open-pit coal mine collapse in China
- Mar, 02, 2023
- Deep Excavations Erosion Landslides Mining Slope Stability
- China
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
An open-pit coal mine collapsed in Alxa League in Inner Mongolia, China, on Wednesday the 22nd of February. A 180-meter-tall slope failure caused the mine to be buried under a very large volume of...
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