Stability Control of Underground Openings Under High Stress and Deep Mining Environment: 2nd Edition
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Civil Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 29
Special Issue Editors
Interests: ground control; mining engineering; rock reinforcement
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Interests: ground control; rock mechanics; backfill mining
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With the rapid development of mining engineering, coal and hard rock resources reserved in relatively simple geological environments are likely to be exhausted. Therefore, to satisfy the demand for mineral resources, more attention needs to be paid to the coal and hard rock resources under complex conditions. It is well known that, under complex conditions, mining activities are subjected to many challenges. For example, under complex conditions, mining operators, equipment, and techniques are influenced by a combination of factors, including high stress, geological discontinuities, stress conditions, and high ground temperature.
In order to guarantee that mining activities can be safely conducted, a better understanding of the mechanical behavior of underground openings under complex conditions is necessary. Moreover, it is important to propose new ground control methods under complex conditions. This Special Issue welcomes high-quality academic papers concerned with stability control techniques and methods for underground openings under high stress and deep mining. Additionally, new ground control techniques, materials, and methods are encouraged.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Cyclic loading and unloading tests on coal and rock samples;
- Dynamic loading tests on coal and rock materials;
- Mechanical tests on coal and rock materials under high-temperature conditions;
- Analytical modeling of the mechanical behavior of coal and rock materials;
- Numerical simulation of the performance of coal and rock materials;
- In situ campaigns of new ground control methods;
- In situ observations of the failure processes in underground openings.
Dr. Jianhang Chen
Prof. Dr. Qingliang Chang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- stability control
- underground openings
- stress concentration
- dynamic loading
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