Themes
PART I: UNDERGROUND MINING AND GROUND CONTROL
- Exploration
- Methods of Mining
- Planning & Design
- Shafts and Mining
- Ground Control Approaches & Methods
- Subsidence
- Geophysical methods in Mining
- Ventilation management in mining,
- development headings
- Equipment management in tunnels
- High-speed materials movement through audits and declines
- Optimization in tunnel development
- Remote monitoring of excavation stability in mines
- Geomatics & Geospatial Information System (GIS) in Mining
- Hazard Analysis
- Health & Safety and Sustainability
- New and Innovative Technologies
PART II: MINING GEOTECHNICS
- Ground Support and Final Lining
- Rock Mechanics
- Slope Stability
- Support Design
- Drilling and Blasting
- Physical modelling
- Numerical modelling
- Analytical methods
- Coupled numerical methods
- Site Investigation
- Laboratory Investigation
PART III: TUNNELLING AND CASE STUDIES
- Large Span Tunnels and Caverns
- Hard Rock TBMs and Tunnels
- Excavation in soft rocks
- Micro tunnelling & Trenchless Tunnelling
- Pressurized Face Tunnelling
- Drilling and Blasting in Tunnelling
- Geophysical methods in Tunnelling
- Grouting
- Rockbursts
- Difficult Ground
- Tunnelling support design
- Geotechnical Considerations
- Planning and Design
- Prediction and Monitoring
- Geomatics & Geospatial Information System
- (GIS) in Mining
- Contract Practices
- Ground Control Approaches & Methods
- Tunnel Rehabilitation
- Project Planning and Risk Management
- Health & Safety and Sustainability
- New and Innovative Technologies
PART IV: UNDERGROUND STRUCTURES AND CASE STUDIES
- Application of Big Data Analytics
- Application of Artificial
- Intelligence and Machine Learning
- Metro Tunnels
- Nuclear Waste Repository
- Underground petroleum storage
- Underground food storage
IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT PUBLICATION IN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
All the papers will go through double blind peer review process and accepted papers will be published as “ The Proceedings of Geotechnical Challenges in Mining, Tunnelling and Underground Infrastructure” by Springer, Switzerland