The investigation of the behaviour of the fracture zone surrounding deep level gold mine stopes is detailed in three main sections of this report. Section 2 outlines the ongoing study of fundamental fracture process and their numerical representation. While section 3 presents a detailed summary of wave propagation and blast fracture processes. And lastly, section 4 contains a description of model calibration experiments and the important application of acoustic emission monitoring techniques in tracking laboratory scale fracture processes
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Napier, J., Malan, D., Sellers, E., Daehnke, A., Hildyard, M., Dede, T., & Shou, K. (1998). Deep gold mine fracture zone behaviour. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/1703
Napier, JAL, DF Malan, E Sellers, A Daehnke, MW Hildyard, T Dede, and K-J Shou. "Deep gold mine fracture zone behaviour." (1998): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/1703
Napier J, Malan D, Sellers E, Daehnke A, Hildyard M, Dede T, et al, Deep gold mine fracture zone behaviour; 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/1703 .
