Handbook - Mining Excavations in Rock

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Overview

This course is to address stress in rock and the effect of depth on pre-mining stress state; other factors influencing stress in rock; mining-induced stress and the rock mass response to the excavation process; stress distributions around different excavation shapes and sizes - elastic and inelastic rock materials; excavation stability … For more content click the Read More button below. MINE5030 is part of the Graduate Diploma in Coal Mine Strata Control. It is offered as a specialist postgraduate coursework qualification for people who currently, or stream in the future to, work within the underground coal mining industry with particular responsibilities in the field of strata control.

This course is to address stress in rock and the effect of depth on pre-mining stress state; other factors influencing stress in rock; mining-induced stress and the rock mass response to the excavation process; stress distributions around different excavation shapes and sizes - elastic and inelastic rock materials; excavation stability and potential failure modes; interaction between different excavations (horizontal and vertical interaction); regional stability considerations; effect of time on rock behaviour around excavations.

MINE5030 is part of the Graduate Diploma in Coal Mine Strata Control. It is offered as a specialist postgraduate coursework qualification for people who currently, or stream in the future to, work within the underground coal mining industry with particular responsibilities in the field of strata control.

Conditions for Enrolment

Prerequisite: MINES5010

Course Attributes

Offered irregularly or alternate years

Delivery

In-person - Intensive

Fully online - Intensive

Multimodal - Intensive

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Postgraduate

Campus

Sydney

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Field of Education

030303 Mining Engineering

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