Episode 104: A conversation about the Fundao TSF with Tim Stark

06/07/2022 22 min Episodio 104

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Timothy D. Stark is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with an expertise in Geotechnical Engineering. Dr. Stark has been conducting interdisciplinary research and teaching on the static and seismic stability of natural and manmade slopes, such as dams, levees, floodwalls, and waste containment facilities, railroad geotechnics, geosynthetics and geomembranes, soil liquefaction during earthquakes, and stabilization and behavior of dredged material containment areas.
In this episode, Tim and I focus our conversation on the Fundao TSF failure and what lessons it has taught us.