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  • SME-ICGCM
    Laboratory Strength Testing of Coal from Selected Illinois Seams

    By E. Bane Kroeger

    For many years, researchers around the world have been investigating coal pillar stability. Many have focused on trying to optimize the size of the pillars by examining stable and failed pillars in un

    Jan 1, 2004

  • SME-ICGCM
    Statistical Regional Calibration Of Subsidence Prediction Models

    By D. N. Cleaver

    Like other influence function methods, the SWIFT subsidence prediction program, developed within the Mineral Resources Engineering Department at the University of Nottingham, requires calibration to r

    Jan 1, 1995

  • SME-ICGCM
    Study of Energy Release Associated with Coal Burst Occurrence

    By Chengguo Zhang, Bruce Hebblewhite, Faham Tahmasebinia, lsmet Canbulat

    "Coal burst is a dynamic release of energy within the rock (or coal) mass leading to high velocity expulsion of the broken/ failed material into mine openings. This phenomenon has been recognised as o

    Jan 1, 2016

  • SME-ICGCM
    Deriving Input Parameters for Numerical Modeling of Fully Resin Grouted Rock Bolts

    By Michael Alber

    Resin grouted rock bolts are the major support measure in coal mining. They are rather easy and foolproof to install, take immediately load and are the least time consuming support measure for control

    Jan 1, 2006

  • SME-ICGCM
    Numerical Model Calibration for Simulating Coal Ribs (da729951-bd49-415c-b364-03a4e38bfd9c)

    By Michael Murphy, Khaled M. Mohamed, Berk Tulu

    "Failures of coal ribs are major hazards in underground coal mines. For the period of 2010 to 2014, rib falls were the leading cause of groundfall fatalities and accounted for 35% of all groundfall-re

    Jan 1, 2016

  • SME-ICGCM
    Determination of the Strength of Powered Roof Supports According for Fatigue Life

    By Monika Patrycja Polak - Micewicz

    This paper presents an approach for estimating the fatigue life for the base of powered roof supports (shield) manufactured by the FAZOS roof support company. FAZOS?s powered roof supports are designe

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SME-ICGCM
    The Autowarning Telltale: A New Safety Monitoring Device for Pillar Extraction Operations

    By David Bigby

    Room and pillar mining with full pillar extraction is one of the most hazardous systems of underground coal mining, a significant hazard being the potential for sudden goaf override. The Autowarning

    Jan 1, 2011

  • SME-ICGCM
    Roof Bolt Bond Tester; A Device For Nondestructive Testing Of Grouted Bolts

    By Raymond M. Stateham

    The Bureau of Mines has developed a portable, lightweight device for determining the integrity of resin-grouted roof bolts. The instrument functions by sending a known pulse of ulstrasonic energy into

    Jan 1, 1982

  • SME-ICGCM
    Electrical Measurements of Coal Measure Rocks for Electromagnetic Applications in Mining Industry

    By Nikolay Boykov

    Subsurface imaging technologies are part of the electromagnetic (EM) geophysical methods. EM technologies such as radio imaging method (RIM), ground penetrating radar (GPR), and drill string radar (DS

    Jan 1, 2006

  • SME-ICGCM
    Pillar Design Issues For Underground Stone Mines (5c6602ba-4b85-4ec3-ad15-c1c321c1afcd)

    By A. T. Iannacchione

    Underground stone mining represents an emerging sector for the U.S. mining industry. As this expansion takes mines under deeper cover and as more efficient mining methods are utilized, adequate stone

    Jan 1, 1999

  • SME-ICGCM
    The Development of Active Cable Anchors for Primary Supports in Coal Mines

    By Scott A. Shapkoff

    High strength cable strand supports are predominately used as a supplemental means of ground control in longwall and development operations in the U.S. The advantages of cable strand supports have bee

    Jan 1, 2006

  • SME-ICGCM
    Coupon Testing for Field Assessment of Stress Corrosion Cracking of Rock Bolts

    By Damon P. Vandermaat

    Coupon testing allows for the rapid understanding of a material?s likely behavior in service conditions, allowing engineers and operators to make informed decisions about the likely service-life of pa

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SME-ICGCM
    Behavioral Aspects of Roof/Rib Injuries--Implications for Training Utilizing Stereoscopic Photography

    By Edward A. Barrett

    A significant number of injuries resulting from fa118 of roof and rib may be avoided by modifying the reactive behavior of miners as they encounter potentially hazardous ground conditions. In 1984-85,

    Jan 1, 1986

  • SME-ICGCM
    Application of Neuro?Fuzzy Technique in Mine Support System for Ground Control

    By Sudhir Kumar Kashyap

    In underground activities ground control is a challenging problem. It affects safety, production, and efficiency. As per statistics of accident data, ?fall of roof/sides? is one of the major causes of

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SME-ICGCM
    Development Of Stress Measurement Techniques In Bump-Prone Coal For Safety Decisions

    By Eric G. Zahl

    Researchers at the Spokane Research Laboratory of the National institute for Occupational Safety and health are evaluating stress and displacement measurements in a longwall coal mine. The objective i

    Jan 1, 2000

  • SME-ICGCM
    New Monitoring Technologies for Measuring the in-situ Performance of Rock Bolts

    By Hani Mitri

    Understanding the interaction between rock bolts and underground rock movement is critical for safe and cost effective underground excavation design. Although early research on this subject involved a

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SME-ICGCM
    Recent Developments In Subsidence Prediction And Control For The Eastern U.S. Coalfields

    By M. Karmis

    Underground mining will disturb the natural equilibrium of the rock mass, causing significant stress redistributions in the vicinity of the excavation with corresponding horizontal and vertical displa

    Jan 1, 1984

  • SME-ICGCM
    Application Of Sliding Roof Bar Powered Support For Thick-Seam Coal Mining

    By Zhang Liandong

    Roof control in thick-seam mining has long been a difficult problem in mine design and coal mining. In the early 1980's, through ground control instrumentation and investigation the rules of r

    Jan 1, 1990

  • SME-ICGCM
    Injection Techniques for Cost-effective Stabilization of Brittle and Faulted Strata Zones

    By Martin Bolesta

    The use of strata injection as a means of stabilizing brittle and heavily stressed ground as well as faulted zones is now state-of-the art technology. Users are obliged to select the right combination

    Jan 1, 2001

  • SME-ICGCM
    CBM Extraction Engineering Challenges and the Technology of Mining the Upper Protective Seam in the Daxing Mine, China

    By Yuanping Cheng, Jingyu Jiang, Qiang Zhang

    "With the increase of mining depths, deep-seated coal seams face threats from high ground stresses, high gas pressures, high gas content, and low seam permeability, which significantly increase the li

    Jan 1, 2017