Bump control design protocol for room-and-pillar retreat mining

A stress control design protocol was developed to minimize coal mine bumps, which are the explosive failure of highly stressed pillars. The protocol was developed for room-and-pillar retreat mining conducted with available continuous miner technology. The inability of existing coal pillar equations...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Campoli, Alan A.
Other Authors: Mining Engineering
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/37952
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06062008-144809/