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Slow loading yielding prop for underground mines – an invention

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Title Slow loading yielding prop for underground mines – an invention
 
Creator Kashyap, S.K.
Kumar, Lalan
Sinha, Amalendu
 
Subject Iron Ore Mining
 
Description In general, underground mines/tunnels/roadways are supported especially in India, by using wooden cogs/props as support in addition to the massive use of roof bolting. But as wood is becoming scarce, there is need for suitable alternative supports to replace timbers in mines. Keeping in mind the Indian mining condition the support should be of greater longevity. Light enough for easy portability and requiring less maintenance. Further, it should have facilities for height variation, sufficient yielding, continuous load monitoring and releasing remotely as the coal seam thickness varies widely in Indian mines. Then, the support material must be easily available and should have ease in operation by even an unskilled worker. Finally, the device must be economically viable for Indian mines, which is thriving for its longer life and should provide safety for miners. In this direction several efforts have been made to design such slow loading yielding props to meet all these requirements. After numerous attempts such innovative prop consisting of multiple disc springs has been designed and developed at CSIR-CIMFR of which the details description has been discussed in this paper.
 
Publisher Book & Journals private Ltd.,
 
Date 2019-05
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Identifier Kashyap, S.K. and Kumar, Lalan and Sinha, Amalendu (2019) Slow loading yielding prop for underground mines – an invention. Journal of Mines Metals & Fuels, 67 (5). pp. 261-263. ISSN 0022-2755
 
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