Author:Napier, JAL; Drescher, K; Hildyard, MW; Kataka, MO; Malan, DF; Sellers, EJDate:Mar 2002The main themes of the project GAP601b have been experimental investigations of creep effects, further underground observations of time-dependent behaviour, investigation of scale effects and rock mass stability and studies of the interaction ...Read more
Author:Drescher, KDate:Feb 2002The testing undertaken for this dissertation is intended to help quantify the various time-dependant deformation processes around typical deep level hard rock tabular excavations. Three mechanisms were investigated and two different hard rock ...Read more