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Forty Year History of Testing at NIOSH’s Mine Roof Simulator. What Have We Learned?

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    The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health's (NIOSH) Mine Roof Simulator (MRS) at the Pittsburgh Mining Research Division was commissioned for operation in 1981. The MRS was originally designed for longwall shield research and was the only hydraulic press in the world with the capability to apply biaxial loads to these large structures. The results of this forty-year research program have contributed to improved performance and increased knowledge of longwall shields, mobile roof supports and hydraulic cylinders in the mining industry. Also, considerable research and development have been conducted to develop standing support technologies for the mining industry. The Support Technology Optimization Program (STOP) was developed to evaluate how these various technologies can impact and improve both ground control conditions and mine safety. Additional MRS research has included the performance of ventilation stopping walls including the development of a new testing protocol to evaluate the transverse loading capabilities under arching load conditions and evaluating the performance characteristics of welded wire screen as used in underground mine roof surface control. The NIOSH Mine Roof Simulator has been a reliable and valuable tool for the past forty years for the evaluation of safety structures used in mining, and this research has contributed significantly to the advancement toward safer mines. This paper will summarize those research results and provide a glimpse of planned future activities. [Description provided by NIOSH]
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  • Series:
    Mining Publications
  • ISBN:
    9781713863700
  • Publisher:
    Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (SME)
  • Document Type:
    Text
  • Genre:
    Proceedings
  • Place as Subject:
  • CIO:
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
  • Division:
    PMRD - Pittsburgh Mining Research Division
  • Topic:
    Workplace Safety & Health
  • Location:
    North America
  • Pages in Document:
    37-47
  • NIOSHTIC Number:
    nn:20067519
  • Citation:
    Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Ground Control in Mining (ICGCM 2022), July 26-28, 2022, Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. Englewood, CO: Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (SME), 2022 Jul; :37--47
  • Federal Fiscal Year:
    2022
  • Peer Reviewed:
    False
  • Source Full Name:
    Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Ground Control in Mining (ICGCM 2022), July 26-28, 2022, Canonsburg, Pennsylvania
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    urn:sha-512:2bbc32e1ba125a414f72cea38fcfaa494379426d470a79d338f0bdf1ec898b9eee44ca66516d590fa0c82b6cda647747bb2487c090e732b0b6a175df704ef7a1
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