Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0562333

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP0562333

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Excavation Design and Sequencing in Highly Stressed Rock Masses. An increasingly large number of Australian underground mines are being operated in highly stressed rock mass conditions, where safe and economic mining is a real challenge due to rock mass instability. In the future, this problem will become more significant as extraction gets deeper with the discoveries of new deeper orebodies or the extension of current operations at depth. The aim of this research project is to provide the Australian mining industry with effective design tools to engineer the largest, most economical, yet stable excavations in rock. The research project will use a generalised framework for design where rock mass characterisation, excavation design, behaviour and dilution control will be studied in detail.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 11-2005

End Date: 12-2009

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $202,740.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Geomechanics | Resources Engineering and Extractive Metallurgy | Mining Engineering |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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