"Evaluation of Mechanical Behaviour of Polymeric Skin Support for Minin" by Gopikrishna Dondapati
Skin support provides resistance to the shearing and spalling of exposed rock layers/blocks as well as protects the surface from open atmospheric contact. Polymeric liners are one such skin support that can be applied to the roof or sidewalls of excavation to enhance load-deformability behaviour. Understanding the reinforcement mechanism of polymeric liner to the rock/coal blocks in laboratory experiments and numerical models possesses the key to measure its performance for field applications. This thesis focuses on the evaluation of performance parameters mostly in the post yielding regime of...
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