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Pillar Safety Factor

Pillar Safety Factor is a dimensionless engineering metric used in underground mining design that quantifies the ratio of a pillar's load-bearing capacity to the applied load, serving as an indicator of structural stability in pillar mining systems.

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Citations

54

Authors

24

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2017–2026

9

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Publications

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A study of the strength of coal pillars

Amos Salamon, M.D.G. Munro · 1967 · 274 citations

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Stability analysis of underground mine hard rock pillars via combination of finite difference methods, neural networks, and Monte Carlo simulation techniques

Chuanqi Li, Jian Zhou, Danial Jahed Armaghani et al. · Underground Space · 2020 · 101 citations · Full text

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An assessment of coal pillar system stability criteria based on a mechanistic evaluation of the interaction between coal pillars and the overburden

Guy Reed, Kent McTyer, Russell Frith · International Journal of Mining Science and Technology · 2016 · 75 citations · Full text

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Probabilistic analysis of underground pillar stability

D. V. Griffiths, Gordon A. Fenton, Carisa B. Lemons · International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics · 2002 · 52 citations

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Coal pillar safety and surface deformation characteristics of wide strip pillar mining in deep mine

Weijia Guo, Hailong Wang, Shaojie Chen · Arabian Journal of Geosciences · 2016 · 48 citations

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Authors

54

  1. JV
    J.N. van der Merwe

    University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

    4 publications · 90 citations

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  2. MM
    M. Mathey

    University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

    2 publications · 35 citations

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  3. KM
    Kent McTyer

    1 publications · 75 citations

    1

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  4. YW
    Ying Wang

    Ocean University of China, China

    1 publications · 23 citations

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  5. WR
    Wael Rashad Elrawy Abdellah

    Assiut University, Egypt

    1 publications · 19 citations

    1

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Institutions

24

  1. Shandong University of Science and Technology

    Qingdao, China

    3 h-index

    9 publications

    293 citations

  2. China University of Mining and Technology

    Xuzhou, China

    3 h-index

    9 publications

    196 citations

  3. University of Pretoria

    Pretoria, South Africa

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    55 citations

  4. University of Wollongong

    Wollongong, Australia

    2 h-index

    1 publications

    12 citations

  5. Chamber of Deputies

    Rome, Italy

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    315 citations

  6. University of the Witwatersrand

    Johannesburg, South Africa

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    70 citations

  7. Dalhousie University

    Halifax, Canada

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    52 citations

  8. Institute of Mining

    Novosibirsk, Russia

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    16 citations

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  3. RWTH Publications (RWTH Aachen)

    Repository · 2 publications · 35 citations

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  4. Arabian Journal of Geosciences

    2 publications · 71 citations

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  5. Research Online (University of Wollongong)

    Repository · 1 publications · 12 citations

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