An in situ monitoring campaign of a hard rock pillar at great depth within a Canadian mine

A recent research campaign at a Canadian nickel-copper mine involved instrumenting a hard rock sill drift pillar with an array of multi-point rod extensometers, distributed optical fibre strain sensors, and borehole pressure cells (BHPCs). The instrumentation spanned across a 15.24 m lengthwise segm...

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Main Authors: Bradley Forbes, Nicholas Vlachopoulos, Mark S. Diederichs, Andrew J. Hyett, Allan Punkkinen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-06-01
Series:Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674775520300482