Date
02 Jun 1988, 10:30 am - 3:00 pm
Abstract
The exploitation of the opencast mines in the East-Maritza coal basin was proceeded of detailed explorations and analysis of the engineering geological conditions. Nevertheless, one of the greatest landslides in the engineering geological practice occurred within the period of 1966 - 1968. The volume of the sliding masses reached 30 - 75 x 106 m3. These landslides made questionable some of the classic formulations of the soil mechanics and engineering geodynamics, as for instance: - the possibility of formation of sliding surfaces with inclination opposite to the direction of sliding; - the validity of the Coulomb-Navier's law in conditions of high confining pressure; - the existence of the so called "pore pressure" within the sliding zones during the deformation process. In the present paper, there could be found certain experimental data and interpretations on some of the above mentioned questions.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
2nd Conference of the International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering
Publisher
University of Missouri--Rolla
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 1988 University of Missouri--Rolla, All rights reserved.
Creative Commons Licensing
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
File Type
text
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Anguelov, Kiril, "The Great Landslides in the East-Maritza Open-Cast Mines (Bulgaria) – A Theoretical Paradox in the Engineering Geology" (1988). International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering. 36.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icchge/2icchge/2icchge-session2/36
The Great Landslides in the East-Maritza Open-Cast Mines (Bulgaria) – A Theoretical Paradox in the Engineering Geology
The exploitation of the opencast mines in the East-Maritza coal basin was proceeded of detailed explorations and analysis of the engineering geological conditions. Nevertheless, one of the greatest landslides in the engineering geological practice occurred within the period of 1966 - 1968. The volume of the sliding masses reached 30 - 75 x 106 m3. These landslides made questionable some of the classic formulations of the soil mechanics and engineering geodynamics, as for instance: - the possibility of formation of sliding surfaces with inclination opposite to the direction of sliding; - the validity of the Coulomb-Navier's law in conditions of high confining pressure; - the existence of the so called "pore pressure" within the sliding zones during the deformation process. In the present paper, there could be found certain experimental data and interpretations on some of the above mentioned questions.
