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3-Day CPD Hands-on Geotechnical Workshop
Tailings Dam Analysis with MIDAS GTS NX
📅27th - 29th October 2025 (Mon - Wed)
    🕘9:00 AM - 05:00 PM
📍Wits University, 1 Jan Smuts Ave, Braamfontein, Johannesburg, 2017, South Africa
📝Overview

MIDAS GTS NX is a state-of-the-art geotechnical and mining finite element analysis (FEA) software designed for advanced 2D and 3D analysis. With a powerful CAD-based interface, it enables engineers to model complex soil–structure interactions, staged construction, groundwater flow, and slope stability with speed and precision. 
It is widely used in infrastructure, mining, and tailings dam design to assess safety, predict performance, and optimize engineering solutions. 

⚠️ Why is Tailings Analysis Critical?

Tailings dams are among the most complex and high-risk structures in mining. Failures can result in catastrophic environmental and social consequences. 
Key challenges include:

✅ Slope stability under different loading and seismic conditions 
✅ Seepage and phreatic surface control to ensure safe pore-pressure distribution 
✅ Staged construction and consolidation effects on long-term dam performance 
✅ Accurate modelling and monitoring are essential for compliance, risk reduction, and sustainable mining practices. 

💡 What is the Objective of this Course?

This 3-day CPD-accredited workshop, jointly hosted with Wits University, aims to equip engineers with: 

➡️Practical skills in modelling tailings storage facilities using MIDAS GTS NX 
➡️Step-by-step guidance on stability, seepage, and staged construction workflows 
➡️Exposure to real case studies from the mining and geotechnical sectors 
➡️Hands-on learning to build confidence in applying FEM for tailings engineering 

By the end of the course, participants will be able to create, analyze and interpret FEM models for tailings dams and related geotechnical structures with greater accuracy and efficiency. 

🎟️ Seats are Limited - Reserve Yours Now!

Bring your laptop and your toughest tailing dam analysis challenges, and leave with the confidence and tools to solve them using MIDAS GTS-NX.

🎯Agenda
  • 𝐃𝐚𝐲 1

    𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 27 | 9.00 𝐀𝐌-5.00 𝐏𝐌 🔸 Opening Remarks and introductory session by Prof. Ganesh
    🔸Introduction to 3 days’ agenda.
    🔸Introduction to GTS NX
    ‣ Application areas
    ‣Working methodologies
    ‣ Flagship projects
    ‣ User Interface
    ‣ Meshing & Loading
    ‣ Analysis capabilities
    🔸Lunch Break
    🔸2D Slope Stability Analysis
    ‣ LEM Theory and SRM theory
    ‣ Basics about slopes
    ‣ Problem statement description
    ‣ Hands-on modelling
    🔸2D Seepage Analysis
    ‣ Darcy flow regime
    ‣ Flow net example
    ‣ Hands-on modelling

  • 𝐃𝐚𝐲 2

    𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 28 | 9.00 𝐀𝐌-5.00 𝐏𝐌 🔸 Opening Remarks and introductory session by Prof. Ganesh
    🔸Fly ash pond modelling:
    ‣ Problem statement description
    ‣Section drawing
    ‣ Material Properties’ description
    🔸Fly ash pond modelling:
    🔸Lunch Break
    ‣ Workflow
    ‣ Hands-on modelling
    🔸Discussion and Brainstorming

  • Day 3

    𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 29 | 9.00 𝐀𝐌-5.00 𝐏𝐌 🔸 Introduction to planning and design of tailings dam by Prof Ganesh
    🔸2D upstream tailings dam:
    ‣ Problem statement description
    ‣ Section drawing
    ‣ Material Properties’ description
    🔸Lunch Break
    🔸2D upstream tailings dam:
    ‣ Workflow
    ‣ Hands-on modelling
    🔸Discussion and Brainstorming
    🔸Closing Ceremony

Agenda

 
Day  Time Topic
  09:00 AM-11:00 AM  Opening Remarks and introductory session by Prof. Ganesh 
  11:00 AM-11:30 AM 

Introduction to 3 days’ agenda

 
 

 11:30 AM- 12:30 PM 

 Introduction to GTS NX 

  • Application areas 
  • Working methodologies 
  • Flagship projects 
  • User Interface 
  • Meshing 
  • Loading 
  • Analysis capabilities 
  12:30 PM-01:30 PM  Lunch Break 
  01:30 PM-04:00 PM 

2D Slope Stability Analysis 

  • LEM Theory and SRM theory 
  • Basics about slopes 
  • Problem statement description 
  • Hands-on modelling 
  04:00 PM-05:00 PM 

2D Seepage Analysis 

  • Darcy flow regime  
  • Flow net example 
  • Hands-on modelling 
 

 

 

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