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Professor David Williams' key research interests are in mine waste disposal, management and rehabilitation. He received his BE (Hons 1) in Civil Engineering from Monash University in 1975 and his PhD in Soil Mechanics from the University of Cambridge in 1979. His current research projects are:
• Prediction of long-term seepage and runoff from mine tailings storage facilities to facilitate their timely and cost-effective closure and lease surrender
• Development of innovative landform and closure designs for potentially contaminating surface waste rock dumps
• Application of risk assessment and cost-effectiveness analysis to the management of roadway geotechnical assets
His research interests include:
• Physical and numerical modelling of mine tailings deposition
• Co-disposal of mine tailings and coarse-grained mine wastes
• Moisture movement within mine wastes
• Engineered rehabilitation of mine sites
• Store/release cover systems for potentially acid forming mine wastes
• Risk assessment and cost-effectiveness analysis of mine site rehabilitation and closure
• Long-term seepage and runoff from mine tailings storages
• Application of high-resolution digital stereo-photography to monitoring erosion from mine waste slopes
• Characterisation of potentially acid forming waste rock dumps
• Mined landform evolution and design
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