Coal Mine Ground Control, Third Edition

Author: Syd S. Peng Published by Syd S. Peng - 2008 764 pages Hardcover This product is in stock. Members: $140.00 USD Students: $140.00 USD Non-members: $180.00 USD Your price: $180.00 Members & Students may LOG IN to receive discounted pricing.

Finally, a complete and authoritative reference on U.S. coal mining methods.

Chapters cover rock properties and in-situ stresses; geological conditions that form the rock strata, their anomalies and geophysical methods employed to detect the anomalies; roof bolts and roof bolting systems; pillar design; recent myths of high horizontal stresses; longwall mining; multiple seam mining; bumps, occurrence, mechanisms, and control; entry stability problems; theories and methods of underground and surface instrumentation; material models; surface subsidence; and highwall stability.