Releasing a Series of Lectures on Rock Failure Behavior and Control in Deep Mining by ISRM—Deep Mining Commission

The ISRM Commission on Deep Mining conducted a series of online lectures on “Rock Failure Behavior and Control in Deep Mining”. The lectures were given by the members of the Deep Mining Commission including Professor Hani Mitri, Professor Xueqiu He, Professor Ming Cai, Professor Wancheng Zhu, Professor Ranjith Pathegama Gamage, Professor Raymond Durrheim, Dr. Kathy Kalenchuk and Dr. Neda Dadashzadeh.

These lectures can be accessed via:

https://space.bilibili.com/3461582038239798/video

A brief description of the lectures are as follows:

1. “Rockburst Monitoring in Coal Mines” by Prof. Xueqiu He and A/Prof. Zhenlei Li from University of Science and Technology Beijing, China.

2. “Rockburst Damage Control through Rockburst Support” by Prof. Ming Cai from Laurentian University, Canada.

3. “Rock Damage and Failure Under Dynamic Disturbance” by Prof. Wancheng Zhu from Northeastern University, China.

4. “Predicting the Mining-Induced Disasters Using Cloud Platform” by Prof. Wancheng Zhu from Northeastern University, China.

5. “The Art and Science of Destress Blasting” by Prof. Hani Mitri from McGill University, Canada.

6. “A New Preconditioning Technique for Deep Mining” by Prof. Ranjith Pathegama Gamage from Monash University, Australia.

7. “Microseismic Monitoring in Hard Rock Mines” by Prof. Raymond Durrheim from University of Witwatersrand, South Africa.

8. “Seismic Hazard Prediction and Mechanical Characterization Using Calibrated Mine-Scale and Local-Scale Numerical Models” by Dr. Kathy Kalenchuk and Dr. Neda Dadashzadeh from RockEng Inc, Canada.