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backfill

[′bak‚fil]
(civil engineering)
Earth refilling a trench or an excavation around a building, bridge abutment, and the like.
(mining engineering)
Waste sand or rock used to support the mine roof after removal of ore.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

Backfill

Crushed stone or coarse soil placed around the foundation walls to provide drainage for water collecting in the soil behind the wall.
Illustrated Dictionary of Architecture Copyright © 2012, 2002, 1998 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved

backfill

Soil which is replaced in an area that has been excavated previously.

backfilling, backfill

1. Rough masonry built behind a facing or between two faces.
2. Filling over the extrados of an arch.
3. Brickwork in spaces between structural timbers. Also see nogging
4. Soil or crushed stone used to fill the space between the excavation or sheeting and the exterior of a structure, or around the foundation walls to provide means for water to drain away from a foundation.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Architecture and Construction. Copyright © 2003 by McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Placing waste back underground as backfill cannot be used to dispose of all the tailings produced, and some surface disposal is usually still required.
The use of tailings in backfill has many potential advantages for underground mines, such as:
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Significant cost savings in the development of a paste backfill solution can be achieved through the design of an automated plant to be controlled from the mill control room.
The control equipment displayed in the control room allows the operator to monitor backfill flow on a continual basis thereby minimising the potential for failures associated with the flow.
Shotcrete and backfill
The objective of this study is to evaluate the potential use of SB backfills amended with polyanionic cellulose (PAC), and for cost effectiveness and low-carbon consideration, the PAC dosage for PAC-amended SB backfills (PSB) is optimized, which may be an alternative for conventional SB backfills to improve the hydraulic performance when exposed to contaminated solutions.
The backfills comprised powered conventional bentonites (CB), fine sand, and PAC.
Hydraulic Conductivity of Polymer-Amended Sand-Bentonite Backfills Permeated with Lead Nitrate Solutions
Although mining works were continuously accompanied by backfilling of dug out areas during the mine's entire operation, the backfills were so deformable that they were unable to prevent surface subsidence.
More than five centuries of mining activity in the area below the town of Idrija have caused major changes in the stress strain states of rocks and backfills in the affected areas of the mercury mine.
Geomechanical effects of operation and closing the Idrija Mercury Mine on the environment
[FLAC.sup.3D] is used for numerical simulation to analyze the state characteristics and stress and strain of backfills and surrounding rocks and to optimize the backfills.
Making Backfills. The mine has a long history of mining, and many tailings have been produced during the mining process.
Numerical Calculation Analysis of the Structural Stability of Cemented Fill under Different Cement-Sand Ratios and Concentration Conditions
Caption: Figure 4: X-ray diffraction of the cemented backfill bodies at 360 d.
Study on the Strength Development of Cemented Backfill Body from Lead-Zinc Mine Tailings with Sulphide
Therefore, it is of great significance to comprehensively analyze the stability and evaluate the confidence level of backfill mining under primary HSRS.
Stability Analysis and Confidence Level Evaluation of Backfill Mining under High and Steep Rock Slopes

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