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Mine Workings Stability and Geomechanical Monitoring

Type of study Doctoral
Language of instruction Czech
Code 542-0931/01
Abbreviation SDDaGM
Course title Mine Workings Stability and Geomechanical Monitoring
Credits 10
Coordinating department Department of Mining Engineering and Safety
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Jindřich Šancer, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Rock mass classifications.
Strength and failure criteria.
Rock mass in-Situ stress and induced stresses.
Stability and support design of underground tunnels.
Methods of dimensioning the pillars and excavations.
Methods for assessing the stability of rock walls and slopes.
Principles of monitoring.
Monitoring of movements in mining works.
Stress measuring and load monitoring of reinforcement
Surface deformation monitoring.

E-learning

Literature

HOEK, Evert, Peter Konrad KAISER a W. F. BAWDEN. Support of underground excavations in hard rock. Rotterdam: A.A. Balkema, 1995. ISBN 90-5410-186-5.
AYDAN, Ömer. Rock mechanics and rock engineering. Volume 2, Applications of rock mechanics - rock engineering. Leiden, The Netherlands: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, [2020]. ISBN 978-0-367-42165-6 .
DUNNICLIFF, John. Geotechnical instrumentation for monitoring field performance. New York: Wiley, c1993. ISBN 0-471-00546-0.

Advised literature

ZANG, Arno a Ove STEPHANSSON. Stress field of the Earth's crust. Dordrecht: Springer, c2010. ISBN 978-1-4020-8443-0.