By Ernesto Villaescusa, Yves Potvin
The function of flooring aid is to soundly retain excavations for his or her anticipated lifespan. The effectiveness of flooring help may be visible either by way of team of workers and gear defense, and when it comes to permitting the main fiscal extraction. Scientists, practitioners and know-how builders have contributed to this quantity, which covers rock mass characterisation, open pit mining and tunnelling. The equipment defined comprise modelling and dynamic trying out, whereas overseas case reports supply abundant representation of either mess ups and triumphs in flooring support.
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Potvin (eds), Ground Support 2004, Proc. 5th Int. Symp. Ground Support in Mining & Underground Construction, Perth, 28–30 September 2004 (this volume). Lisse: Balkema. J. J. 2004. A fall of ground case study—an improved understanding of the behaviour of a major fault and its intersection with ground support. Potvin (eds), Ground Support 2004, Proc. 5th Int. Symp. Ground Support in Mining & Underground Construction, Perth, 28–30 September 2004 (this volume). Lisse: Balkema. R. & Villaescusa, E. 2004.
2004, Rojat et al. 2003). In effect, this criterion is similar to the Rock Mass Damage Criterion discussed by Wiles et al. (2004). Brown (2004) has suggested that this criterion could also be used in analyses of the likelihood of brittle rock fracture around highly stressed extraction level excavations in block and panel caving mines. In addition to the uniaxial compressive strength of the rock material, the state of stress on the boundary and in the rock around particular excavations would have to be estimated.
2001. The control of ground response—milestones up to the 1960s. Colombo (eds), Proc. AITES-ITA World Tunnel Congress, Milan, 1: 93–118. Bologna: Patron Editore. Landriault, D. 2001. Backfill in underground mining. Bullock (eds), Underground Mining Methods: Engineering Fundamentals and International Case Studies, 601–614. Littleton: Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration. M. D. 2004. Rockfalls in Western Australian underground metalliferous mines. Potvin (eds), Ground Support 2004, Proc. 5th Int, Symp.