Report of Investigations 8804: Concrete Crib Design and Field Testing

Details

• Journal Article:
  Spokane, WA: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, RI 8804
• Personal Author:
  Henton, Laurin N. ; Smelser, Thomas W.
• Description:
  This Bureau of Mines report presents a review of underground testing, test results, and design guidelines of steel-fiber- reinforced concrete (sfc) mine support (cribbing) developed at the Spokane Research Center. The objective of the work was to verify, in field applications, the performance, economics, and acceptance by the mining industry of the sfc supports and establish design guidelines for their use underground. Results indicate superior performance, favorable economics, and enthusiastic acceptance by the mining industry. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Mining Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Underground-mining; Underground-supporting; Reinforced-concrete; Metal-fibers; Structural-design; Guidelines; Field-tests; Concrete-blocks
• Source:
  Spokane, WA: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, RI 8804, 1983 Oct; :1-41
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications   ; Mining Publications  
• Subseries:
  Report of Investigations
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 10 ; Washington
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  SRC - Spokane Research Center
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  46 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:10003091
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB84-131689
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1984
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7ad971c58eb2fb2254e79ab8c421ee97ed4c680133d0e162af507309bfffd15796e819d395ce6d95d29c0e2dd6dbe93d68327e70c0f666c92092959498d5d437
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/10377/cdc_10377_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 11.92 MB ]