Innovative Approach for Monitoring Underground Excavations at San Xavier Underground Mine Laboratory

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• Personal Author:
  Akbulut NB ; Anani A ; Brown LD ; Wellman EC
• Description:
  Assessing and making decisions in underground mines is crucial and is difficult due to the harsh environment and the limitation of accessibility. Monitoring plays an important role in assessing ground conditions to ensure safety and efficiency. Through consistent monitoring, a safe interoperable underground mine can be achieved, but to ensure coherent and valid monitoring, there are factors that need to be considered. The approach taken for monitoring with technologies used in it can highly impact the safety, productivity, and understanding of ground conditions. Visualizations designed with principles of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), can improve knowledge, and aid situational awareness. Focusing on monitoring systems and interfaces that are user-friendly and reliable can help improve overall underground conditions. This paper proposes a monitoring framework that uses desktop and Virtual Reality (VR) to display rock movement in the San Xavier (SX) Underground Mine Laboratory through a digital twin. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Mining Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Excavations Geotechnical Engineering Ground Monitoring Rock Mechanics Underground Mines Virtual Reality
• ISBN:
  9780979497582
• Publisher:
  American Rock Mechanics Association (ARMA)
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  Arizona ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20069466
• Citation:
  57th US Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, June 25-28, 2023, Atlanta, Georgia. Alexandria, VA: American Rock Mechanics Association (ARMA), 2023 Jun; :ARMA-2023-0913
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2023
• Performing Organization:
  University of Arizona, Tucson
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20100901
• Source Full Name:
  57th US Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, June 25-28, 2023, Atlanta, Georgia
• End Date:
  20260831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:00c570cc154ab05dfb6e1f210c1fa07a877b0cf9519f2ba954fc0e2e81f75e4b614a3239bc84612b4475ac47dae12a633840f66c1b7f2dcafd8646ce2477291a
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/207903/cdc_207903_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.18 MB ]