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- Hazard prevention and control:
- Pillar design
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8/1/2000 - Conference papersThis paper addresses a deficit in pillar loading research by exploring the accuracy of empirical abutment load calculations using insight provided by an elastic overburden model, a laminated overburden model and field observations.
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3/1/1999 - Conference papersRecently, powerful design methods have emerged from analysis of large data bases of real-world pillar successes and failures. In the process, our understanding of pillar mechanics has been greatly enriched.
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1/1/1999 - Conference papersThis paper examines current design practices for stone mines and discusses issues for safe mine layouts so that a rational first approach towards balancing the demands for increased production can be weighed against increased risk to worker safety.
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8/1/1997 - Conference papersDemonstration of a technique developed at the Spokane Research Center that allows the user to create a finite-element model of a two-dimensional section of an underground mine in a relatively straightforward manner.
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1/1/1990 - Conference papersThis U.S. Bureau of Mines paper discusses the importance of an interface slip mechanism between the coalbed and the surrounding strata in controlling the extent and pattern of stresses and deformations in a coal pillar.
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Content source: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Mining Program