Investigating mechanical and geometrical effects of joints on minimum caving span in mass caving method

This paper investigates the effect of jointed rock mass properties on the Minimum Required Caving Span (MRCS) in the block caving method using numeric and heuristic approaches. To do so, the effects of five parameters of jointed rock mass, namely joint set number, joint spacing, joint inclination an...

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Published in:	International Journal of Mining and Geo-Engineering
Main Authors:	Behnam Alipenhani, Abbas Majdi, Hassan Bakhshandeh Amnieh
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	University of Tehran 2023-06-01
Subjects:	mass caving numerical modeling sensitivity analysis dem gep
Online Access:	https://ijmge.ut.ac.ir/article_92304_5eba302d29c93dcaa46312db04c08dcd.pdf