Itasca conducted a seismic performance evaluation of the trestle‐wharf section of the OPC Puerto Cortes Container Terminal, located in Honduras. A FLAC3D analysis of the soil is performed, including the piles and deck of the terminal. This is a fullycoupled, dynamic, soil‐structure, time‐history analysis that quantifies the performance and potential risks for the structure and slope. The Finn model – Byrne formulation was utilized using data from investigation boreholes.
Karina has more than 16 years of experience in rock mechanics engineering, and she contributed her professional expertise to the mining industry in open pit and underground excavations, as well as in academia at the University of Queensland. Karina has experience in hard and soft rock, operations and projects, specifically metalliferous mining with AngloGold Ashanti in Brazil (sublevel stoping, cut-and-fill, room-and-pillar, and open pit) and South Africa (longwall ultra-deep mines) and coal with Vale in Australia (longwall and open cut). She contributed to the geotechnical field and performed numerical modelling based on mine stability, design and optimisation of layouts, assisting the mine planning on technical considerations and related geotechnical risk appraisals. Karina’s experience in research includes investigation of coal properties, fracture stimulation for coal seam gas production, breakage and characterisation of various ores and fabricated rocks to improve knowledge in mineral processing. Karina has a special interest in mineralogy influencing rock breakage, numerical modelling, stability analysis of excavations, and evaluation of ground support design
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