Report of Investigations 9542: Structural Analysis of Mechanized LHD Trench Undercut Caving System

Details

• Journal Article:
  Denver, CO: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, RI 9542
• Personal Author:
  Jude, Charles V.
• Description:
  This U.S. Bureau of Mines (USBM) report presents results of stress analyses and field observations to investigate the effects of elevated trench drifts on the structural stability of rock mass zones surrounding a production draw drift in a mine utilizing a mechanized load-haul-dump (LHD) trench undercut panel caving system. A two-dimensional boundary-element mine stress model was developed to predict the locations and extent of damaged rock mass zones surrounding draw drifts where adjacent, parallel trench drifts are either elevated or not elevated above the LHD production draw drift level. A Mohr-Coulomb shear-failure criterion was obtained directly from in situ borehole shear test data. Hoek-Brown Shear-failure parameter values were computed from borehole-shear and triaxial test data. A procedure is described to estimate these parameters when a rock mass rating (RMR) value and triaxial data on intact samples exist, and no borehole shear test data exist. Results indicate that trench drifts, elevated to the level equal to the height of the LHD production draw drift, would not minimize material damage nor significantly enhance the stability of rib and crown pillar zones surrounding production draw drifts in the mechanized LHD trench undercut caving panel investigated at this mine. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Mining Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Structural-stability; Stress-analysis; Structural-failure; Boundary-element-method; Boreholes; Rock-mechanics; Mines-excavations; Shear-stress; Structural-analysis; Mining-engineering
• Source:
  Denver, CO: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, RI 9542, 1995 Jan; :1-53
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications   ; Mining Publications  
• Subseries:
  Report of Investigations
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  Colorado ; OSHA Region 8
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DRC - Denver Research Center
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  51 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20039178
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB95-216768
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1995
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:be66ccb720bbc9ae3a7dea4bda0d186a4c0aa21bccfd91f86e9bff8884763e1243144149af35088c4af26f749ddde6613fd3890d7526c02ab5ea75a6544497a5
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/10247/cdc_10247_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 3.01 MB ]