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Rock Mechanics.pdf - Mining and Blasting

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Figure 7.5 (a) A practical problem<br />

involving semi-coupling between<br />

a large excavation (a cut-<strong>and</strong>-fill<br />

stope) <strong>and</strong> smaller access openings;<br />

(b) nomenclature for definition of<br />

the zone of influence of an elliptical<br />

opening.<br />

ZONE OF INFLUENCE OF AN EXCAVATION<br />

Problems related to zone of influence arise frequently in metalliferous mining.<br />

Haulages, access <strong>and</strong> service openings must frequently be located, for reasons of<br />

economy <strong>and</strong> practicality, in the zone of influence of the major production openings.<br />

An example is shown in Figure 7.5a, with access openings on the footwall side<br />

of an inclined orebody. In this case, a zone of influence could be defined for an<br />

ellipse inscribed in the stope cross section, for any particular stage of up-dip advance<br />

of mining. Suppose the stope is outside the zone of influence of each access drive.<br />

Then, reasonable estimates of the access opening boundary stresses could be obtained<br />

from the local stresses due to the pseudo-elliptical stope <strong>and</strong> the boundary stress<br />

concentrations due to the shape of the access drive.<br />

The preceding discussion suggests that it is useful to consider the zone of influence<br />

of an elliptical excavation in the course of a design exercise. It is therefore appropriate<br />

to formalise its definition. The general case of a zone around an elliptical excavation<br />

in which the stresses depart from the maximum in situ stress (p or Kp) by more<br />

than c% has been considered by Bray (1986). From this analysis, the zone may be<br />

approximated by an ellipse with axes WI <strong>and</strong> HI equal to the greater of each of the<br />

following sets of values:<br />

or<br />

or<br />

WI = H[A | q(q + 2) − K (3 + 2q) | ] 1/2<br />

WI = H[{A(K + q 2 ) + Kq 2 }] 1/2<br />

HI = H[A | K (1 + 2q) − q(3q + 2) | ] 1/2<br />

H1 = H[{A(K + q 2 ) + 1}] 1/2<br />

where W <strong>and</strong> H are the width <strong>and</strong> height of the elliptical excavation, q = W/H, A =<br />

100/2c <strong>and</strong> = 1, if K < 1, <strong>and</strong> = 1/K ,ifK > 1.<br />

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