Abstract: Underhand cut-and-fill stoping is an efficient, sustainable mining method that is particularly applicable to complicated mining conditions in which both the peripheral rocks and the orebody are extremely unstable. Considering ...

Abstract: Cubic specimens of three rocks—granite, marble, and sandstone, representing very strong rock, moderately strong rock, and weak rock, respectively—were tested under polyaxial stress. The objective was to determine the optimal ...

Abstract: Failure characteristics of rocks under polyaxial compression have been the subject of extensive laboratory testing, although a limited amount of literature is published on the numerical simulation of rock failure under ...