COURSE UNIT TITLE

: LAYER CONTROL IN UNDERGROUND MINING

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MIN 5054 LAYER CONTROL IN UNDERGROUND MINING ELECTIVE 2 0 0 6

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR HAYATI YENICE

Offered to

Mining Operation
Mining Operation
Mining Operation

Course Objective

To have abilitty to understand the importance of strata control and design an underground excavation.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Able to understand the importance of strata control in underground mining.
2   Able to understand the rock and rock mass behaviour and failure criterion
3   Able to understand the stresses around underground openings
4   Able to understand the underground support systems and their properties
5   Able to design of support sytems for underground openings

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Basic terms, the importance of strata control in mining
2 Intact rock and rock mass properties and behaviour
3 Failure criterions in underground excavation
4 Stress distrubiton around the underground openings and determination of (loads acting on support) support loads
5 Types of underground excavations and stability problems (pillar, roof, flour failure, convergence, etc)
6 Fundamental principles of support design
7 Types and properties of support elements used in underground (drifts, face and shaft, rock bolts, shotcrete, stell supports)
8 Midterm
9 Strata control for underground mineral excavations (Longwall supports, pillar loads and strength, and room and pillar design)
10 Support design for shafts and tunnels
11 Backfill types and properties and design
12 Support design based on rock mass classification systems
13 Numerical methods in support design
14 Numerical methods in support design

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Bieniawski, Z. T., Strata Control in Mineral Engineering , Balkema,1987
2. Brady, B.H.G., Brown, E.T., Rock Mechanics for Underground Mining ,Kluwer Academics Publishers, London, 1999
3.Hoek, E., Kaiser, P. K., Bawden, W.F., Support of underground Excavations in Hard Rock Balkema,1997
4.Birön, C., Arıoğlu, E., Design of Supports in Mines John Wiley & Sons,1983

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lesson will be made in the form of oral presentations, homework, visual expressions, and classroom discussions.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 ASG ASSIGNMENT
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE ASG * 0.50 + FIN * 0.50
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) ASG * 0.50 + RST * 0.50


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

LO 1-3 Midterm Exam
LO 4 Homework
LO 1-5 Final Exam

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

e-mail:hayati.yenice@deu.edu.tr
tel: 023203017525

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 2 26
Preparation for midterm exam 1 15 15
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparing assignments 6 6 36
Preparing presentations 2 6 12
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 139

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11
LO.133
LO.2253
LO.32542245343
LO.433
LO.533443444355

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