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Carolina Palma

Principal Geotechnical Engineer

BASED

Santiago, Chile

CREDENTIALS

MSc

LANGUAGES

Spanish, English

Carolina Palma | Principal Geotechnical Engineer | SRK Chile
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Carolina has over 20 years of experience in stability studies and geotechnical design of waste dumps, heap leach pads, leach piles, and tailings storage facilities.

Carolina holds a master's degree in geotechnical engineering and has specific experience in the field, having worked on various mining and civil engineering projects.

She has extensive experience in the analysis and geotechnical design of dams using 2D and 3D numerical modeling and she is an expert in stability studies and geotechnical design for spent ore dumps, waste dumps, leach pads, and tailings deposit. 

Carolina has led important projects for geotechnical research, design for foundations and slopes including large field exploration campaigns at pre-feasibility and feasibility engineering level. 

Carolina's Articles

A Review of the Key Factors that Influence Pseudo-Static Stability Analyses of Downstream and Upstream Tailings Sand Dams
Camilo Morales, Carolina Palma, Jaime Olivares

In this paper, a review of the parameters influencing the pseudo-static analyses results of downstream and upstream tailings sand dams is presented.

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The Impact of Considering the Vertical Seismic Coefficient (kv) on the Pseudo-Static Slope Stability Analysis of Downstream Cohesionless Tailings Sand Dams
Camilo Morales, Carolina Palma, Alberto Bard

In Chile, the limit equilibrium analysis under pseudo-static conditions is compulsory according to the Supreme Decree 248 (DS248), which establishes a minimum factor of safety (FoS) of 1.2 for stability analysis.

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A Review of CPT-Based Soil Classification Correlations Applied to Mine Tailings
Camilo Morales, Carolina Palma, Andrés Gavidia

In this paper, the CPT-based soil classification correlations proposed by Robertson (1990), Jefferies & Davies (1991), Eslami & Fellenius (1997), Shuttle & Cunning (2008), Robertson (2010), and Robertson (2016) are evaluated using real CPT data from copper mine tailings.

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