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Rock Mechanics.pdf - Mining and Blasting

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EXCAVATION DESIGN IN MASSIVE ELASTIC ROCK<br />

such that, during development of the second opening, no support problem or local<br />

instability is produced in the existing opening.<br />

5 The figure below shows a horizontal section through the midheight of a vertical,<br />

lenticular orebody. The orebody is mined with long vertical blast holes in such a<br />

way that a slot approximately elliptical in a horizontal section is extended along<br />

the strike of the orebody. The field principal stresses in the horizontal plane are of<br />

magnitudes 25 MPa <strong>and</strong> 10 MPa, <strong>and</strong> oriented as shown. For the case where the length<br />

(L)/breadth (B) ratio of the mined excavation is 2.8, determine the magnitudes <strong>and</strong><br />

corresponding locations of the maximum <strong>and</strong> minimum boundary stresses. If the rock<br />

mass tensile strength is zero, <strong>and</strong> compressive failure is defined by a Coulomb law<br />

with c = 30 MPa, = 30 ◦ , determine the likelihood of boundary failure. Assess the<br />

consequences of the results for mining activity.<br />

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