Evaluation of Roof Bolting Requirements Based on In-Mine Bolter Drilling Progress Report (open access)

Evaluation of Roof Bolting Requirements Based on In-Mine Bolter Drilling Progress Report

In this quarter, the field, theoretical and programming works have been performed toward achieving the research goals set in the proposal. The main accomplishments in this quarter included: (1) laboratory tests have been conducted, (2) with the added trendline analysis method, the accuracy of the data interpretation methodology will be improved and the interfaces and voids can be more reliably detected, (3) method to use torque to thrust ratio as indicator of rock relative hardness has also been explored, and (4) about 80% of the development work for the roof geology mapping program, MRGIS, has completed.
Date: January 15, 2003
Creator: Peng, Syd S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluation of Roof Bolting Requirements Based on In-Mine Bolter Drilling Progress Report (open access)

Evaluation of Roof Bolting Requirements Based on In-Mine Bolter Drilling Progress Report

In this quarter, the field, theoretical and programming works have been performed toward achieving the research goals set in the proposal. The main accomplishments in this quarter included: (1) two more sets of field tests have been conducted in an underground coal mine, (2) optimization studies of the control parameters have been conducted, (3) method to use torque to thrust ratio as indicator of rock relative hardness has also been explored, and (3) about 97% of the development work for the roof geology mapping program, MRGIS, has completed, (4) A special version of the geology mapping program for a limestone mine has been developed. The field test for the software and hardware has been successfully finished.
Date: September 15, 2004
Creator: Peng, Syd S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluation of Roof Bolting Requirements Based on In-Mine Bolter Drilling Progress Report (open access)

Evaluation of Roof Bolting Requirements Based on In-Mine Bolter Drilling Progress Report

Roof bolting is the most popular method for underground openings in the mining industry, especially in the bedded deposits such as coal, potash, salt etc. In fact, all U.S. underground coal mine entries are roof-bolted as required by law. However, roof falls still occur frequently in the roof bolted entries. The two possible reasons are: the lack of knowledge of and technology to detect the roof geological conditions in advance of mining, and lack of roof bolting design criteria for modern roof bolting systems. This research is to develop a method for predicting the roof geology and stability condition in real time during roof bolting operation. Based on such information, roof bolting design criteria for modern roof bolting systems will be developed for implementation in real time. Additional field tests have been performed in this quarter. The development of the data interpretation methodology and other related tasks are still continuing.
Date: October 15, 2002
Creator: Peng, Syd S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluation of Roof Bolting Requirements Based on In-Mine Bolter Drilling Progress Report (open access)

Evaluation of Roof Bolting Requirements Based on In-Mine Bolter Drilling Progress Report

Roof bolting is the most popular method for underground openings in the mining industry, especially in the bedded deposits such as coal, potash, salt etc. In fact, all U.S. underground coal mine entries are roof-bolted as required by law. However, roof falls still occur frequently in the roof bolted entries. The two possible reasons are: the lack of knowledge of and technology to detect the roof geological conditions in advance of mining, and lack of roof bolting design criteria for modern roof bolting systems. This research is to develop a method for predicting the roof geology and stability condition in real time during roof bolting operation. Based on such information, roof bolting design criteria for modern roof bolting systems will be developed for implementation in real time. More laboratory tests have been performed in this quarter. The analysis performed on the testing data showed: (1) abnormal rotational accelerations can be used as the indicator of the rock interfaces, and (2) the sharp drops of drilling thrust and torque agree well with the locations of fractures.
Date: April 15, 2002
Creator: Peng, Syd S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluation of Roof Bolting Requirements Based on In-Mine Bolter Drilling Progress Report (open access)

Evaluation of Roof Bolting Requirements Based on In-Mine Bolter Drilling Progress Report

Roof bolting is the most popular method for underground openings in the mining industry, especially in the bedded deposits such as coal, potash, salt etc. In fact, all U.S. underground coal mine entries are roof-bolted as required by law. However, roof falls still occur frequently in the roof bolted entries. The two possible reasons are: the lack of knowledge of and technology to detect the roof geological conditions in advance of mining, and lack of roof bolting design criteria for modern roof bolting systems. This research is to develop a method for predicting the roof geology and stability condition in real time during roof bolting operation. Based on such information, roof bolting design criteria for modern roof bolting systems will be developed for implementation in real time. In this quarter, the field, theoretical and programming works have been performed toward achieving the research goals set in the proposal. The selected site and the field testing plan enabled us to test all three aspects of roof geological features. The development of the data interpretation methodologies and the geology mapping computer program have also been preceding well.
Date: July 15, 2003
Creator: Peng, Syd S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluation of Roof Bolting Requirements Based on In-Mine Bolter Drilling Progress Report (open access)

Evaluation of Roof Bolting Requirements Based on In-Mine Bolter Drilling Progress Report

Roof bolting is the most popular method for underground openings in the mining industry, especially in the bedded deposits such as coal, potash, salt etc. In fact, all U.S. underground coal mine entries are roof-bolted as required by law. However, roof falls still occur frequently in the roof bolted entries. The two possible reasons are: the lack of knowledge of and technology to detect the roof geological conditions in advance of mining, and lack of roof bolting design criteria for modern roof bolting systems. This research is to develop a method for predicting the roof geology and stability condition in real time during roof bolting operation. Based on such information, roof bolting design criteria for modern roof bolting systems will be developed for implementation in real time. The retrofitting works for a dedicated roof bolter for this research has been completed. The laboratory tests performed using this machine on simulated roof blocks have been conducted. The analysis performed on the testing data showed promising signs to detect the rock interface, fractures, as well as the rock types. The other tasks were progressing as planned.
Date: October 15, 2001
Creator: Peng, Syd S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluation of Roof Bolting Requirements Based on In-Mine Bolter Drilling Progress Report (open access)

Evaluation of Roof Bolting Requirements Based on In-Mine Bolter Drilling Progress Report

Roof bolting is the most popular method for underground openings in the mining industry, especially in the bedded deposits such as coal, potash, salt etc. In fact, all U.S. underground coal mine entries are roof-bolted as required by law. However, roof falls still occur frequently in the roof bolted entries. The two possible reasons are: the lack of knowledge of and technology to detect the roof geological conditions in advance of mining, and lack of roof bolting design criteria for modern roof bolting systems. This research is to develop a method for predicting the roof geology and stability condition in real time during roof bolting operation. Based on such information, roof bolting design criteria for modern roof bolting systems will be developed for implementation in real time. More field tests have been performed. A trendline analysis method has been developed. This method would improve the accuracy in detecting the locations of fractures and in determining the rock strength.
Date: April 15, 2003
Creator: Peng, Syd S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluation of Roof Bolting Requirements Based on In-Mine Bolter Drilling Progress Report (open access)

Evaluation of Roof Bolting Requirements Based on In-Mine Bolter Drilling Progress Report

In this quarter, the research effort is to develop the drill control unit (DCU) that acquire, store drilling parameters and control the drilling operation. The relevant publications have been reviewed and the methodology developed by previous researchers has been evaluated using the collected data in our laboratory and field tests conducted prior to the start of this project. Numerical modeling for exploring roof bolting mechanism has been started.
Date: April 15, 2001
Creator: Peng, Syd S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluation of Roof Bolting Requirements Based on In-Mine Bolter Drilling Progress Report (open access)

Evaluation of Roof Bolting Requirements Based on In-Mine Bolter Drilling Progress Report

Roof bolting is the most popular method for underground openings in the mining industry, especially in the bedded deposits such as coal, potash, salt etc. In fact, all U.S. underground coal mine entries are roof-bolted as required by law. However, roof falls still occur frequently in the roof bolted entries. The two possible reasons are: the lack of knowledge of and technology to detect the roof geological conditions in advance of mining, and lack of roof bolting design criteria for modern roof bolting systems. This research is to develop a method for predicting the roof geology and stability condition in real time during roof bolting operation. Based on such information, roof bolting design criteria for modern roof bolting systems will be developed for implementation in real time. Additional field tests have been performed. It is found that the drilling power can be used as a supplementary method for detecting voids/fractures and rock interfaces.
Date: January 15, 2003
Creator: Peng, Syd S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluation of Roof Bolting Requirements Based on In-Mine Bolter Drilling Progress Report (open access)

Evaluation of Roof Bolting Requirements Based on In-Mine Bolter Drilling Progress Report

In this quarter, the field, theoretical and programming works have been performed toward achieving the research goals set in the proposal. The main accomplishments in this quarter included: (1) one more field test has been conducted in an underground coal mine, (2) optimization studies of the control parameters have been conducted, (3) the relationship among feed pressure, penetration rate and rotation rate seems to be a good indicator for estimating rock strength when both penetration rate and rotation rate are controlled or kept constant, (4) the empirical equations for eliminating the machine effect on drilling parameters were developed and verified, and (5) a real time roof geology mapping system for roof bolters in limestone mine, including a special version of the geology mapping program and hardware, performs very well in underground production condition.
Date: April 15, 2005
Creator: Peng, Syd S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluation of Roof Bolting Requirements Based on In-Mine Bolter Drilling Progress Report (open access)

Evaluation of Roof Bolting Requirements Based on In-Mine Bolter Drilling Progress Report

A one-year non-cost extension has been granted for this project. In this quarter, the field, theoretical and programming works have been performed toward achieving the research goals set in the proposal. The main accomplishments in this quarter included: (1) laboratory tests have been conducted, (2) with the added trendline analysis method, the accuracy of the data interpretation methodology will be improved and the interfaces and voids can be more reliably detected, (3) method to use torque to thrust ratio as indicator of rock relative hardness has also been explored, and (3) about 80% of the development work for the roof geology mapping program, MRGIS, has completed and a special version of the program is in the field testing stage.
Date: April 15, 2004
Creator: Peng, Syd S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluation of Roof Bolting Requirements Based on In-Mine Bolter Drilling Progress Report (open access)

Evaluation of Roof Bolting Requirements Based on In-Mine Bolter Drilling Progress Report

Roof bolting is the most popular method for underground openings in the mining industry, especially in the bedded deposits such as coal, potash, salt etc. In fact, all U.S. underground coal mine entries are roof-bolted as required by law. However, roof falls still occur frequently in the roof bolted entries. The two possible reasons are: the lack of knowledge of and technology to detect the roof geological conditions in advance of mining, and lack of roof bolting design criteria for modern roof bolting systems. This research is to develop a method for predicting the roof geology and stability condition in real time during roof bolting operation. Based on such information, roof bolting design criteria for modern roof bolting systems will be developed for implementation in real time. Field tests have been performed in two underground coal mines in this quarter. It also found from the tests that the non-drilling thrust and torque should be deducted from the acquired drilling data. The non-drilling torque is actually higher than that is used to overcome the shear strength is proportional to the rotation rate.
Date: July 15, 2002
Creator: Peng, Syd S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluation of Roof Bolting Requirements Based on In-Mine Bolter Drilling Progress Report (open access)

Evaluation of Roof Bolting Requirements Based on In-Mine Bolter Drilling Progress Report

In this quarter, the field, theoretical and programming works have been performed toward achieving the research goals set in the proposal. The main accomplishments in this quarter included: (1) laboratory tests have been conducted, (2) with the added trendline analysis method, the accuracy of the data interpretation methodology will be improved, (3) method to use torque to thrust ratio as indicator of rock relative hardness has also been explored, and (3) about one half of the development work for the roof geology mapping program, MRGIS, has completed.
Date: October 15, 2003
Creator: Peng, Syd S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluation of Roof Bolting Requirements Based on In-Mine Bolter Drilling Progress Report (open access)

Evaluation of Roof Bolting Requirements Based on In-Mine Bolter Drilling Progress Report

In this quarter, the field, theoretical and programming works have been performed toward achieving the research goals set in the proposal. The main accomplishments in this quarter included: (1) one more field test has been conducted in an underground coal mine, (2) optimization studies of the control parameters have been conducted, (3) method to use torque to thrust ratio as indicator of rock relative hardness has also been explored, and (4) about 98% of the development work for the roof geology mapping program, MRGIS, has completed, (5) A real time roof geology mapping system for roof bolters in limestone mine, including a special version of the geology mapping program and hardware, has already been verified to perform very well in underground production condition.
Date: January 15, 2005
Creator: Peng, Syd S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluation of Roof Bolting Requirements Based on In-Mine Bolter Drilling Progress Report (open access)

Evaluation of Roof Bolting Requirements Based on In-Mine Bolter Drilling Progress Report

Roof bolting is the most popular method for underground openings in the mining industry, especially in the bedded deposits such as coal, potash, salt etc. In fact, all U.S. underground coal mine entries are roof-bolted as required by law. However, roof falls still occur frequently in the roof bolted entries. The two possible reasons are: the lack of knowledge of and technology to detect the roof geological conditions in advance of mining, and lack of roof bolting design criteria for modern roof bolting systems. This research is to develop a method for predicting the roof geology and stability condition in real time during roof bolting operation. Based on such information, roof bolting design criteria for modern roof bolting systems will be developed for implementation in real time. In this quarter, retrofitting work to build a dedicated roof bolter for this research has been started. A number of numerical methods have been developed to improve the quality of and to analyze the collected drilling parameters. Finite element modeling of roof bolting mechanism is continuing.
Date: July 15, 2001
Creator: Peng, Syd S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluation of Roof Bolting Requirements Based on In-Mine Bolter Drilling Progress Report (open access)

Evaluation of Roof Bolting Requirements Based on In-Mine Bolter Drilling Progress Report

Roof bolting is the most popular method for underground openings in the mining industry, especially in the bedded deposits such as coal, potash, salt etc. In fact, all U.S. underground coal mine entries are roof-bolted as required by law. However, roof falls still occur frequently in the roof bolted entries. The two possible reasons are: the lack of knowledge of and technology to detect the roof geological conditions in advance of mining, and lack of roof bolting design criteria for modern roof bolting systems. This research is to develop a method for predicting the roof geology and stability condition in real time during roof bolting operation. Based on such information, roof bolting design criteria for modern roof bolting systems will be developed for implementation in real time. A new mechanical approach to estimate rock strengths using the acquired drilling parameters has been proposed. This approach takes a number of important factors, that have never been studied in the previous researches, into the considerations. Good results have been shown using the new approach on the testing data.
Date: January 15, 2002
Creator: Peng, Syd S.
System: The UNT Digital Library