Surface and Underground Excavations: Methods, Techniques and Equipment - Hardcover

Inhaltsangabe

Surface and Underground Excavations - Methods, Techniques and Equipment provides a comprehensive text on the latest technologies and developments in excavation for any type of surface or underground excavation. In the first few chapters, unit operations are covered, including drilling, explosives and blasting, mucking, haulage, hoisting, supports and reinforcement. Subsequently, excavation techniques are described for various operations, like tunneling, raising, sinking, drifting, stoping, quarrying and surface-mining, underground mining, pillar blasting and liquidation. In addition, the design, planning and development of excavations are treated in a separate chapter. Special attention is paid to the construction of surface and subsurface excavations, including caverns and to new methodologies to select stoping methods through incremental analysis. For practical illustration, one of the final chapters contains case studies dealing with heavy underground blasting during pillar recoveries.
This book is intended for students in earth sciences, geology and in civil, mining and construction engineering.

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