This is owing to low efficiency, higher effect on the surrounding rock, possible fly rock, dilution, personnel in danger line and production of toxic gases, etc. These challenges have resulted in a 13.5% (101.3 tonnes) and 2.9% (262.9 tonnes) decrease in gold and platinum production, 14% and 2.6% increase in gold and platinum …

Undercutting disc technology combines the robustness and wear resistance of roller discs (mainly used on TBMs) with the efficacy of drag cutters (used on road-headers) in one single technology to cut very hard rocks. Breaking the rock under direct tension, undercutting discs consume less energy than conventional roller discs. This means that ...

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Fully mechanized mining (FMM) technology has been applied in Chinese coal mines for more than 40 years. At present, the output of a FMM face has reached 10-million tons with Chinese-made equipment. In this study, the new developments in FMM technology and equipment in Chinese coal mines during past decades are introduced. …

Oxy fuel cutting (OFC) processes sever metal by utilizing the chemical reaction of oxygen with metal at elevated temperatures. The required temperature is provided by the combustion of a fuel gas and oxygen (minimum 99.5% purity). The cutting action is supported by the pure oxygen stream. The torch used in the cutting process produces …

During the process of mechanized excavation, rock is essentially subjected to cyclic point loading (CPL). To understand the CPL fatigue behavior of rock materials, a series of CPL tests are conducted on sandstone samples by using a self-developed vibration point-load apparatus. The effects of loadin …

Rock-Cutting Forces in Mechanized Tunnel Boring Machines Mansour Sabri1; Kamran Goshtasbi2; Hamid Reza Nejati3; and Ehsan Taheri4 Abstract: The wear of the disc cutter results in an increase in ...

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Mechanical cutting studies have mostly focused on two types of cutting (e.g., roller disc cutting and drag pick cutting) and cutting characteristic of them (Cho et al. 2013, Jeong et al. 2016 ...

A Numerical Investigation of the Effect of Disc Cutter Wear on Rock-Cutting Forces in Mechanized Tunnel Boring Machines @article{Sabri2023ANI, title={A Numerical Investigation of the Effect of Disc Cutter Wear on Rock-Cutting Forces in Mechanized Tunnel Boring Machines}, author={Mansour Sabri and Kamran Goshtasbi and Hamid …

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Abstract. While mechanized mining operations are integral part of mining activities in soft rocks, drill and blast fragmentation method still dominates the hard rock mining operations. Mechanized fragmentation technology for hard rock mining should be robust, relatively small, and flexible; however, development of such system has been a …

Soft rock is commonly cut by drag bits, or picks, which penetrate the rock fabric with a highly loaded sharp point and rip through the rock in a shearing mode. ... These unsuccessful attempts at mechanized hard rock excavation represent many tens of millions of dollars in costs for both the mining companies and the equipment …

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of the forcing air curtain in fully mechanized rock tunnelling faces Wen Nie1,2 · Yun Hua 1,2 · Weiwei Zhou 1,2 · Qiang Liu1,2 · Xiaojiao Cai1,2 · Lei Cheng1,2 ... 2014), the highest cutting dust removal eciency is only around 70% (Wang et al., 2019b, 2019c). In order to improve the eciency of spraying dust-settling, chemical dust control ...

ange of rock conditions.Our MT720 is an electrically powered and crawler-mounted boom-type roadheader which is engineered to cut hard and abrasive rock beyond 120 MPa compressive strength. at mechanized tunneling.Subway tunnels, road tunnels, shaft sinking, rehabilitation of existing tunnels and excavation of underground caverns …

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By understanding the characteristics of the rock, the tools we use to cut it with, and the history of mining and rock cutting, we can see the genesis of the roadheader, the longwall, and the ...

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The geometry of the disc cutter is one of the most important factors in the rock cutting process of mechanized tunnel boring machines (TBMs). However, during excavation, the optimal conditions of the disc cutter are not constant due to disc cutter wear. One of the most significant consequences of cutter wear is the increase in the contact …

2.2 Rock cutting and boring 2.2.1 Raise boring ... Mechanisation includes mechanized drill, blast, support and cleaning methods, generally for flat to 10° inclined or declined excavations in Southern African mines, with special methods and equipment for steeper inclined/declined excavations. A drill and blast method offers greater flexibility ...

At present, the mechanized excavation of rock roadways is mainly based on point pick and disc cutter: point pick is difficult to cut the hard rock efficiently, and the pick wear and failure is ...

– The cutting drum of the BC was designed and built by (Austria), a world leader in hard-rock mechanized mining and rock cutting equipment. The designs are based on similar designs used on large continuous miner machines used in underground mining and construction;

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As the cutting trace pre-set principle, engineering quantity of rock cutting is minimized while passing through the fault. According to the geometric relation, ... Liu J (2011) Practices on fully mechanized coal mining equipment matched and mining in thin seam of Datong mining area. Coal Science and Technology 39: 40–43. Google Scholar. …

How to realize the mechanized and efficient crushing of hard rock in coal mines has become the bottleneck for developing hard rock roadway excavation equipment. The rock-breaking load of the dish-shape cutter by cutting was only approximately 30% of the rock breaking by extrusion, which had been attempted for …

DOI: 10.1016/J.POWTEC.2016.11.029 Corpus ID: 100205887; Investigation of rock cutting dust formation and suppression using water jets during mining @article{Jiang2017InvestigationOR, title={Investigation of rock cutting dust formation and suppression using water jets during mining}, author={Hongxiang Jiang and Changlong …

For comparison, common lapidary rocks have a Mohs hardness of 5.5. to 6 (opal), 6.5 to 7 (agate and jasper), and 6.5 to 7.5 (various varieties of garnet). Amethyst, being a variety of quartz, has a hardness of 7. Whether going by Mohs hardness or absolute hardness, a diamond is much harder than any rock you will be cutting and can cut …

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