A review on the geotechnical design and optimisation of ultra-long ore passes for deep mass mining

EF Salmi, T Phan, EJ Sellers, TR Stacey - Environmental Earth Sciences, 2024 - Springer
Enhancing mine energy efficiency and productivity necessitates the implementation of
longer ore passes, exceeding 300 m, to optimise material transport in underground mass …

A 2D discrete moisture diffusion model for simulating desiccation fracturing of soil

C Yan, Z Luo, Y Zheng, W Ke - Engineering Analysis with Boundary …, 2022 - Elsevier
The desiccation fracturing of soil is widespread, which affects the migration of rainwater in
the soil, and the stability of slopes or other projects. This paper proposes a simple two …

A surrogate model based on deep convolutional neural networks for solving deformation caused by moisture diffusion

Z Luo, C Yan, W Ke, T Wang, M **ao - Engineering Analysis with Boundary …, 2023 - Elsevier
Moisture diffusion is a common phenomenon in geotechnical engineering, and its induced
deformation seriously affects the stability of the engineering structure, such as embankment …

Development and Application of a 3D GPU-parallelized CDEM for Blasting induced rock fractures

H Hu, L Yang, C Feng, J Huang, X Zhu - Simulation Modelling Practice and …, 2025 - Elsevier
The study has developed a three-dimensional, GPU-parallelized Continuum-Discontinuum
Element Method (CDEM) program, utilizing the CUDA C/C++ programming model on GPUs …

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T Stacey, EF Salmi, T Phan, EJ Sellers - wiredspace.wits.ac.za
Enhancing mine energy efficiency and productivity necessitates the implementation of
longer ore passes, exceeding 300 m, to optimise material transport in underground mass …