Ground Support Systems Optimisation Research Project (GSSO)

Public Documents

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Potvin, Y, Hadjigeorgiou, J & Wesseloo, J 2019, ‘Towards optimising ground support systems in underground mines’, in J Hadjigeorgiou & M Hudyma (eds), Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on Ground Support in Mining and Underground Construction, Australian Centre for Geomechanics, Perth, pp. 493–502. Click here.

Cumming-Potvin, D, Potvin, Y, Wesseloo, J, Harris, P, Ho, C & Heinsen Egan, M 2019, ‘Development of a single-pass detailed damage mapping application’, in J Hadjigeorgiou & M Hudyma (eds), Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on Ground Support in Mining and Underground Construction, Australian Centre for Geomechanics, Perth, pp. 85–100. Click here.

Potvin, Y 2017, ‘The need for new technology to optimise the engineering design of ground support systems in underground mines’, in M Hudyma & Y Potvin (eds), Proceedings of the First International Conference on Underground Mining Technology, Australian Centre for Geomechanics, Perth, pp. 9–22. Click here.

Wesseloo, J 2016, ‘The use of elastic superposition as part of a multi-tiered probabilistic ground support design approach’, in E Nordlund, TH Jones & A Eitzenberger (eds), Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Ground Support in Mining and Underground Construction, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå. Click here.

Potvin, Y & Hadjigeorgiou, J 2016, ‘Selection of ground support for mining drives based on the Q-system’, in E Nordlund, TH Jones & A Eitzenberger (eds), Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Ground Support in Mining and Underground Construction, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå. Click here.

Sweby, GJ, Dight, PM, Potvin, Y & Gamble, N 2016, ‘An instrumentation project to investigate the response of a ground support system to stoping induced deformation’, in E Nordlund, TH Jones & A Eitzenberger (eds), Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Ground Support in Mining and Underground Construction, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå. Click here.

Sweby, GJ, Dight, PM & Potvin, Y 2016, ‘A numerical modelling case study – correlation of ground support instrumentation data with a three dimensional inelastic model’, in E Nordlund, TH Jones & A Eitzenberger (eds), Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Ground Support in Mining and Underground Construction, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå. Click here.

Potvin, Y & Hadjigeorgiou, J 2015, ‘Empirical ground support design of mine drives’, in Y Potvin (ed.), Proceedings of the International Seminar on Design Methods in Underground Mining, Australian Centre for Geomechanics, Perth, pp. 419–430. Click here.

Duan, W, Wesseloo, J & Potvin, Y 2015, ‘Evaluation of the adjusted rockburst damage potential method for dynamic ground support selection in extreme rockburst conditionsp’, in Y Potvin (ed.), Proceedings of the International Seminar on Design Methods in Underground Mining, Australian Centre for Geomechanics, Perth, pp. 399–418. Click here.

Sweby, GJ, Dight, PM & Potvin, Y 2014, ‘The use of numerical models for ground support systems optimisation: application, methods and challenges’, International Discrete Fracture Network Conference, Vancouver. Click here.

Potvin, Y, Wesseloo, J, Dight, P, Sweby, G & Hadjigeorgiou, J 2017, Ground Support Systems Optimisation, MRIWA Report No. 431. Click here.

Media

Australian Centre for Geomechanics launches Ground Support for underground mines book
Authors Professor Yves Potvin, Australian Centre for Geomechanics, The University of Western Australia, Australia and Professor John Hadjigeorgiou, University of Toronto, Canada

The use of numerical models for ground support systems optimisation: applications, methods and challenges
by Gordon Sweby, and Professors Phil Dight and Yves Potvin, Australian Centre for Geomechanics

ACG integrated ground support design project – GSSO
by Gordon Sweby, Australian Centre for Geomechanics

Optimizing ground support systems
by Engineering & Mining Journal