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• Design Concerns of Room and Pillar Retreat Panels
  1/1/2017 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  A paper detailing observations made in four consecutive room and pillar retreat panels and the data collected from an instrumentation site during retreat mining.
• New Technologies for Identifying and Understanding Ground Stability Hazards
  11/16/2016 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A capacity-building contract to quantify the ground response in underground coal mines with different geologic settings and depths of cover.
• Ground Control Safety for Deep Vein Mines
  11/5/2016 - Research projects
  A project to establish a new standard for ground control safety in deep vein mines.
• Durable Support for Western U.S. Underground Metal Mines
  10/27/2016 - Research projects
  A project to reduce injuries and fatalities in western U.S. underground metal mines by reducing the falls of ground taking place in these mines.
• Support Design Procedures for Difficult Ground Conditions
  10/22/2016 - Research projects
  A project to develop engineering guidelines for support design that will reduce groundfall fatalities under supported roof in underground coal mines.
• Mine Roof Simulator (MRS) Laboratory
  10/22/2016 - Research projects
  A project to utilize the capabilities of the Mine Roof Simulator (MRS) Laboratory to test underground roof support and ventilation structures and apply these results to engineer safer products and applications.
• Empirical Guidelines for Longwall Ground Control Design
  10/22/2016 - Research projects
  A project to update the database of case histories upon which the Analysis of Longwall Pillar Stability (ALPS) software bases its recommended stability factors.
• Development of Guidelines for the Design of Support Systems to Manage Coal Mine Rib Hazards
  10/22/2016 - Research projects
  A project to develop guidelines for determining the appropriate level of support and design methods for support systems to minimize the risk and severity of injuries to miners from rib falls in underground coal mines.
• Coal Mine Safety Applications of Seismic Monitoring
  10/22/2016 - Research projects
  A project to implement in-mine seismic monitoring techniques in coal mines to evaluate and demonstrate potential mine safety benefits of this technology.
• Calibration and Verification of Longwall Stress Models
  10/22/2016 - Research projects
  A project to address the paucity of guidance in available literature for assessing the design an underground longwall coal mine for safe ground response to mining with numerical stress analysis tools.