Rock Mass Stability Around Underground Excavations in a Mine
eBook - PDF

Rock Mass Stability Around Underground Excavations in a Mine

A Case Study

  1. 180 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Rock Mass Stability Around Underground Excavations in a Mine

A Case Study

About this book

Stability of underground excavations is of great importance to an operating mine because it ensures the safety of the working people and operating equipment, and successful ore production. Due to the complex geological conditions and mine constructions, and variability and uncertainty in estimating rock mass mechanical properties, the assessment of rock mass stability for an underground mine is extremely challenging and difficult. Tackling of this difficult problem is not covered in detail in any of the textbooks currently available in the rock mechanics literature. This monograph aims to cover this gap in the rock mechanics and rock engineering field.

This monograph provides detailed procedures for the stability assessment and support design for an underground mine case study. It covers the background of the mine site including the monitored deformation data, the state-of-art methodologies for the stability analysis of rock masses around underground excavations, performed laboratory tests, estimation of the rock mass properties, a brief theory and background of the 3-D Distinct Element Code (3DEC), and numerical modeling of underground rock mass stability including investigation of the effectiveness of rock supports. The monograph is an excellent reference for the senior undergraduates, graduate students, researchers and practitioners who work in the Underground Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering area in the Mining Engineering, Civil Geotechnical Engineering and DEM (Distinct Element Method) Numerical modeling.

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Yes, you can access Rock Mass Stability Around Underground Excavations in a Mine by Yan Xing, Pinnaduwa Kulatilake, Louis Sandbak in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Technology & Engineering & Civil Engineering. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. List of abbreviations
  8. List of symbols
  9. Chapter 1 Introduction
  10. Chapter 2 Description of the site, the tunnel system, used ground control methods and field measurements
  11. Chapter 3 Methodologies for investigating rock mass stability around underground excavations
  12. Chapter 4 Some critical factors in modeling of rock mass stability around underground excavations
  13. Chapter 5 Theory and background of three-dimensional distinct element code
  14. Chapter 6 Conducted laboratory tests and results
  15. Chapter 7 Three-dimensional discontinuum modeling of tunnel stability
  16. Chapter 8 Summary, conclusions and recommendations for future work
  17. Appendix A: Supplementary of laboratory test results
  18. Appendix B: Supplementary of the numerical modeling results
  19. References
  20. Index