Editorial: Deep rock mass engineering: Excavation, monitoring, and control

Excavation Technology for Hard Rock - Problems and Prospects

Civil engineering projects have greatly benefited from the mechanical excavation of hard rock technology. Mining industry, on the other hand, is still searching for major breakthroughs to mechanize and then automate the winning of ore and drivage of access tunnels in its metalliferrous sector. The aim of this study is to extend the scope of drag bits for roadheaders in hard rock cutting. Variou...

Towards Autonomous Excavation of Fragmented Rock : Experiments , Modelling , Identification and Control by Joshua

Towards Autonomous Excavation of Fragmented Rock: Experiments, Modelling, Identification and Control Joshua Alexander Marshall Master of Science (Engineering) Department of Mechanical Engineering Queen’s University August, 2001 Increased competition and recent globalization in the minerals industry has resulted in further demands for advanced mining equipment technology. The autonomous excavati...

Editorial: Neurotechnology: An Engineering Perspective

Rock Damage Caused by Underground Excavation and Meteorite Impacts

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Numerical Simulation on Zonal Disintegration in Deep Surrounding Rock Mass

Zonal disintegration have been discovered in many underground tunnels with the increasing of embedded depth. The formation mechanism of such phenomenon is difficult to explain under the framework of traditional rock mechanics, and the fractured shape and forming conditions are unclear. The numerical simulation was carried out to research the generating condition and forming process of zonal dis...