May 2020

• Energy Absorbing Reinforcement Selection for Deep Underground Mining by Mostafa Sharifzadeh, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer at Curtin University, Australia

In this presentation, Mostafa gives an introduction about deep underground mining and also he discusses the calculation of the ground demand or determination of the dynamic capacity of the ground support system and then he discusses how to select a reinforcement for the deep underground conditions with the seismic potential…

• We Need a Radical Shift in our Thinking by Abouzar vakili, Ph.D., MAusIMM (CP), PREQ

Abouzar talks about some responses to misleading information to the mining industry about modern geomechanics and best practices in numerical modelling…