Building pathologies caused by failure of Fundão Tailing Dam: A principal component analysis aproach

Ladir Antonio DA Silva Junior; Tatiana B Dos Santos

doi:10.1590/0001-3765202320220458

Building pathologies caused by failure of Fundão Tailing Dam: A principal component analysis aproach

An Acad Bras Cienc. 2023 Aug 28;95(suppl 1):e20220458. doi: 10.1590/0001-3765202320220458. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Ladir Antonio DA Silva Junior¹, Tatiana B Dos Santos²

Affiliations

¹ Universidade do Estado de Minas Gerais, Departamento de Engenharia Civil, Av. Brasília, 1304, Baú, 35930-314 João Monlevade, MG, Brazil.
² Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Departamento de Mineração da Escola de Minas, Campus Universitário, Rua Henri Gorceix, 241-321, Morro do Cruzeiro, 35400-000, Ouro Preto, MG, Brazil.

PMID: 37646711
DOI: 10.1590/0001-3765202320220458

Abstract

This article presents a study of the impacts caused by Fundão dam failure in buildings from Gesteira district, Barra Longa city, Brazil. The analyzed dataset was built using technical reports from surveys carried out in 152 buildings. Principal component analysis was capable of explain the interdependence of data variable and allowed conditions of understand the consequences and evidenced pathologies. Heavy vehicle traffic caused more damage (57% of buildings) to the studied buildings than the contact with the tailing mud (43% of buildings).