The topic of residual subsidence is important in Europe as it defines possible surface deformation for closed mine areas. It has to be determined because of potential financial claims and damages of sensitive objects such as satellite dishes, precision mechanics objects, agriculture, forestry and hydrogeology, etc. Analyses of measured subsidence after the end of mining exploitation indicate that this process can last from several months to several dozen or even several hundred years, and the final surface subsidence is not known. It is dependent on the individual’s features of excavated medium, depth of exploitation, a system of exploitation, behaviour of surrounding rock masses, etc. In the article, the authors analysed the assessment of the subsidence process after the end of mining operations, based on the innovative method. This concerns the duration of the subsidence process and the size of the expected subsidence. The methodology was applied to the RAG Aktiengesellschaft company project where prognostic calculations were made for seven closed coal mines using unique results of precise height measurements carried out for more than 90 years by the German State Office for National Measurements (Landesvermessungsamt NRW) under the so-called levelling measurements net. These measurements are carried out every 2 years and serve to keep the altitude network in the whole state of Rhineland Westphalia up-to-date. The result of the prognosis for one case study, German mine Auguste-Victoria, is presented in the article.
The paper presents the research methodology aimed at determining the building damage intensity index as a linear combination of indices describing the damage to its individual components. The research base comprised 129 building structures erected in the large-block technology. The study compared the results of a standardized approach to data mining -PCA (Principal Components Analysis) with the procedure of the PLSR method (Partial Least Squares Regression). As a result of the analysis, a generalized form of the building damage index was obtained, as a linear combination of the damage to its components.
The article presents a method for assessing dynamic resistance of existing reinforced concrete slab road viaducts subjected to mining tremors. For this purpose there are formulated six criteria to determine the maximum permissible value of the component ground vibrations (a x,dop , a y,dop, a z,dop).Within each criterion, a reference is made to the most critical components, for which for which the Author has formulated strength and kinematic conditions, reflecting the behaviour of the structure under dynamic excitation caused by mining tremor. The permissible range of structural behaviour was set by comparing the effects of load combinations adopted at the design stage with a seismic combination proposed in [12]. In the field of dynamic analysis the response spectrum method was used, taking into account the guidelines for the adaptation of Eurocode 8 for the calculation the response of construction to the influence of mining tremors. Finally, in accordance with the established procedure calculations were carried out and and results are presented for a sample reinforced concrete slab road viaduct.
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