sponsored by the Alpha Foundation for the Improvement of Mine Safety and Health, Inc. (Alpha Foundation);the funding provided for this project by the Alpha Foundation;partially funded by the National Institute of Occupational Health and Science (NIOSH) under Grant Number 200-2016-90154.
Although conventional coal mine designs are conservative regarding pillar strength,local failures such as roof-falls and pillar bursts still affect mine safety and operations.Previous studies have identified that disc...
This contribution describes development and application of a user-friendly finite element program,UT3PC, to address three important problems in underground coal mine design:(1) safety of main entries,(2) barrier pilla...
supported by the Fundamental Research Funds program for the Central Universities (No. 2014RC02);the Research Innovation Program for College Graduates of Jiangsu Province (No. CXLX13_951);Qing Lan Project
New solid backfill mining technology provides unique technical advantages for ‘‘three-under'' coal mining which refers to coal resources trapped under buildings, railways, and water bodies. This technology has a muc...