...Liliana Rybarska-Rusinek; Ewa Rejwer; Alexander Linkov Purpose At present numerical simulation of seismicity, used in mining and hydraulic fracturing practice, is quite time expensive what hampers its combined employing with observed seismicity in real time. The purpose of this paper is to suggest...

...Lei Pang; Lei Liu; Yong Kang; Pengfei Lv Purpose – Gas explosion is one of the most major types of accident in mining projects, and the flame front with high temperature is major hazardous factor induced by this kind of accident. Support engineering provides an available way to solve problems...

... conducted by Pierce (2004) is replicated using both circular and polygonal discrete elements, and the migratory behaviour of the fines phase is observed. In the latter, a mine‐scale analysis of a three‐bell block cave is also undertaken and the migration of fines under an arbitrary draw sequence...

...C.R. Leonardi; D.R.J. Owen; Y.T. Feng Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a novel computational framework based on the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) and discrete element method (DEM) capable of simulating fines migration in three dimensions. Fines migration occurs in a block cave mine...

... – quickly obtaining results within the analysed working area. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Civil engineering Mining Numerical analysis Natural terrain is subjected to a series of stresses, mainly as the consequence of lithostatic load and tectonic conditions. This stress state...