- Hazard prevention and control:
- Ground control
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- Span design
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- Pressure arch design
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- Entry design
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- Roof beam design
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- Skin control
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- Scaling
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- Slope design
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- Highwall design
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- Pillar design
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- Support design and selection
- Document types:
- Research projects
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1/13/2023 - Research projectsA project to build the framework for expanding pillar design criteria into challenging environments by undertaking pillar response investigations in representative conditions at case study mine sites.
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11/29/2022 - Research projectsA project to determine the need for improved bench design guidelines and develop slope monitoring radar guidelines for application to open pit mines.
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11/8/2022 - Research projectsA project to increase the safety of open pit mines through improving upon or developing new rockfall catch bench design guidelines and improving slope performance monitoring capabilities at open pit and quarry sites.
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12/10/2021 - Research projectsA project investigating massive ground collapses and ways to reduce the potential for collapse events.
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9/16/2020 - Research projectsA project to employ state-of-the-art ground control science, in a targeted program of case studies, to develop engineering solutions for ground control hazards in underground metal mines.
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9/16/2020 - Research projectsA project to identify needs for enabling better detection of ground control hazards in underground metal mines.
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9/16/2020 - Research projectsA project to reduce injuries and fatalities caused by rockburst-related ground failures in underground mines by developing an integrated, systematic approach for monitoring mining-induced seismic events.
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3/4/2020 - Research projectsA project to develop engineering-based procedures that will contribute to the practical design of ground control systems in gateroad excavations and longwall extractions.
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2/15/2018 - Research projectsA project to make available blast damage models and an easy-to-use software tool for mining engineers to use in developing improved blast designs.
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1/16/2018 - Research projectsA project to develop engineering-based stress analysis procedures for improved assessment of stress-related hazards due to full extraction mining.