A study of failure in the rock surrounding underground excavations
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Date
1962
Authors
Cook, Neville G.W.
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Abstract
Violent failure of the rock surrounding under ground excavations
forms a major hazard and obstacle in deep-level mining. (Abbreviation abstract)
Description
A Thesis presented to the Department of Geophysics
of the University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg
Keywords
Rock excavation, Rock bursts, Rocks -- Analysis, Rocks --Fatigue -- Measurement, Rock pressure -- Measurement, Seismometers, Mining engineering -- Technique