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• Diagnosing and Controlling Moisture-Sensitive Roof in Coal Mines
  1/1/2008 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  Moisture-sensitive roof rocks have contributed to time-dependent roof falls. NIOSH research proves the value of a wet/dry cycling test for rock evaluation.
• Experimental Study on the Confinement-Dependent Characteristics of a Utah Coal Considering the Anisotropy by Cleats
  5/1/2018 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  A study in which laboratory testing was used to identify the engineering characteristics and brittleness of coal samples.
• Applying Robust Design to Study the Effects of Stratigraphic Characteristics on Brittle Failure and Bump Potential in a Coal Mine
  1/1/2018 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  An article describing the results of a robust design to consider the impact of different lithologic risk factors impacting dynamic failure risk.
• Regional Bumps: Case Studies from the 1958 Bump Symposium
  1/1/2010 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  This paper looks at historical descriptions of bumps with regional scale, in the hope that by investigating dynamic failure modes with potential to create the next disaster, that disaster might be averted.