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  • SAIMM
    Management of seismic and swelling ground

    By P. N. Erasmus

    This paper considers the fundamental concepts of support design for underground openings in highly stressed ground. It concludes that the conventional deformed reinforcing bar, woven mesh and cable la

    Jan 1, 2009

  • SAIMM
    Annual Report and Accounts For the year ended 30th June, 1986

    PREFACE During the past year, the Council of the SAIMM undertook a major strategic-planning exercise to review all its current activities, and to redefine its scope and objectives in the light of cha

    Jan 1, 1986

  • SAIMM
    Selection Methods For Backfilling Dewatering Aids

    By G. R. Sawyer

    Although backfilling has been in operation for many years, the methods for selecting appropriate slurry dewatering aids have, in some cases, been rather unsophisticated. This has led to many misconcep

    Jan 1, 1988

  • SAIMM
    Study on nonlinear damage localization process of rocks under water chemical corrosion

    By Li. S., C. Sili

    Abstract. Study on nonlinear damage localization process of rocks under water chemical corrosion is a more interesting topic in rock mechanics research world widely. It is very important in estimating

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Activity of chromium oxide in CaO-SiO2based slags at 1873 K

    By K. Morita, N. Sano

    Thermodynamic properties of chromium oxides in molten slags are very important for optimization of stainless steel refining processes as well as reduction processes of chromium ores. The solubility of

    Jan 1, 2004

  • SAIMM
    Physico-chemical properties and transition metal complex formation in alkali pyrosulphate and hydrogen sulphate melts

    By H. Hamma, R. Fehrmann, M. Gaune-Escard, G. Hatem, S. B. Rasmussen, K. M. Eriksen

    The molten salts M2S2O7and MHSO4, the binary molten salt systems M2S2O7-MHSO4and the molten salt-gas systems M2S2O7-V2O5and M2S2O7-M2SO4-V2O5(M = Na, K, Rb, Cs) in O2, SO2and Ar atmospheres have been

    Jan 1, 2004

  • SAIMM
    A theoretical model for the characterisation of rock mass mechanical properties—Application at the Äspö HRL, Sweden

    By A. Fredriksson, R. Christiansson, I. Staub

    A theoretical model based on DFN models and 2D DEM numerical modelling has been developed for evaluating the rock mass mechanical properties. The description of the methodology is non-site related and

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Effect of Matrix Structure and Mechanical Deformation on Carbide Coarsening

    By C. M. Sellars, W. E. Stumpf

    SYNOPSIS The effects of concurrent recovery, prior creep deformation and concurrent high temperature fatigue on the coarsening of some carbides in steels have been studied. It was found that concurre

  • SAIMM
    Effect of Roughness on the Peak Shear Strength of Clay Infilled Joints under Constant Normal Stiffness

    By A. Haque

    The shear behaviour of infilled joints produced from ordinary gypsum plaster (gyprock) and bentonite was investigated in the laboratory under Constant Normal Stiffness (CNS) conditions. Shear tests we

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Formation and stabilization of rock cavern roof arches

    By M. Lu, E. Broch

    Abstract: The formation and mechanism of rock cavern roof arches are studied and effects of rockbolts reinforcement are evaluated. It is concluded that a self-supported roof arch may be formed by the

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Proceedings, Annual General Meeting, 1993

    The 96th Annual General Meeting of The South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy was held in the Gold Room of the Transvaal Automobile Club in Johannesburg on Wednesday, 11th August, 1993. O

    Jan 1, 1993

  • SAIMM
    A parametric study of the discontinuity in rock mass and its influence on tunnel behavior

    By D. -H. Park, G. -j. Kim, Y. -J. Park, C. -S. Hong, S. -Y. Choo

    To evaluate the quantitative tunnel behavior influenced by characteristics of discontinuity, this pa-per executes the parametric study using 2 and 3-dimensional DEM analysis. First of all, this study

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    The influence of methane inflow upon the development of a fire centre in an underground Coal Mine

    By W. Dziurzynski, S. Nawrat, A. Krach

    The paper presents research on the influence of the goaf methane inflow on a fire. The problem was investigated by a computer simulation of a fire developing in a goaf. A relevant mathematical model o

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Obituary: Dr William Bleloch

    With the passing of Dr William Bleloch on 20th June 1991, we lost not only a colleague and a good friend but a man who made a very significant contribution to the industrial development of South Afric

    Jan 1, 1991

  • SAIMM
    Viscosities, electrical resistivities, and liquidus temperatures of slags in the system CaO-MgO-Al2O3-Ti02-SiO2 under reducing conditions

    By D. D. Howat, J. van der Colf

    Selected members of the slag system were reduced in graphite crucibles in an argon atmosphere, and the physicochemical properties of the reduced derivatives of the slags were determined in inert cruci

    Jan 1, 1979

  • SAIMM
    Proceedings April General Meeting

    The April General Meeting of the Institute was held in Kelvin House, Johannesburg, on 15th April, 1970, at 4.30 p.m. Mr J. K. E. Douglas (President) was in the chair. There were also present ei

  • SAIMM
    Study on Tunneling in Rock Masses with Inclined Layers Using Discontinuous Deformation Analysis (DDA)

    By J. -H. Wu, S. Nishiyama, Y. Ohnishi

    The behaviors and stress distributions of the inclined jointed rock masses with different dip angles obtained from DDA are compared to the results of laboratory tests. By calculating the block stress

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Analyses of Tunnel Stress Failures at Pyhäsalmi Mine

    By M. Hakala, P. Tolppanen

    A method to predict stress-induced failures around excavations based on the mapped geological and rock mechanical information is studied. Totally of 7 km of newly excavated tunnels are mapped in the I

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Modeling rock mass bulking around underground excavations

    By J. Gómez-Hernández, P. K. Kaiser

    Abstract The process of stress-induced fracturing around underground excavations in brittle rock is associated with dilation or volume increase of the failed, fractured rock. Different attempts to

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Keynote Address: The Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act of 2002: Likely impact on black economic empowerment in South Africa

    By F. T. Cawood

    Inauguration of the new political dispensation in South Africa in 1994 initiated a dynamic shift in the ownership, management and development of the country’s affluent mineral heritage. The process of

    Jan 1, 2003