Rock Engineering
and Mining M
achinery
Staff
: Professor
SHIMADA Hideki
Associate
Professor SASAOKA Takashi
Assistant Professor HAMANAKA Akihiro
Senior Advisor(CUIER) FUJITA Shuichi
Rock engineering as well as rock mechanics is a truly
interdisciplinary subject, with applications in geology and geophysics, mining,
petroleum, and civil engineering. It relates to energy recovery and development,
construction of underground spaces for transportation, water resources and
defense facilities, prediction of earthquakes, and many other activities of
greatest importance.
Practitioners in this field have made important contributions in
mining and civil engineering possible by accumulated practical experience,
engineering judgment and often by a trial-and-error approach. In essence, the
rock engineering practice has traditionally been an art rather than an
engineering science. Despite this fact, the rock engineering science has been
advanced by the devoted efforts of many scientist, researchers and
engineers.
Today, many workers in the rock engineering field tend to use
comprehensive numerical modeling to study and solve complex issues. Although
these models are powerful, it is difficult and rather impossible to obtain the
necessary input data. It should be emphasized that field observations and
measurements could play an important role in solving the issues. It has been
pointed out that there is a big gap between theories and
practice.
Recent
fields of Study
1. Support system of
underground openings under high stress and poor strata
conditions.
2. Optimization of
underground mining system in Indonesian coal.
3. Study of an optimal
drivage system at Ombilin Coal.
4. Grouting system in rock
masses and backfilling system in pipe jacking.
5. Estimation of initial
stress conditions using AE.
6. Study of stability of
rock slopes in highwall.
7. Fully mechanized and
automated rock excavation system in surface mines.
8. Stabilization of ground
with mud slurry in pipe-jacking system.
9. Flow and solidification
behaviors of fly-ash slurry in backfilling system.
10. Study of utilization of
explosive energy.
11. Numerical simulation of
shock wave propagation in explosion of explosives.