Development of mineral deposits located at significant depth may be carried out by means of vertical shafts. Shaft sinking technology usually requires a number of works to be carried out, including the selection of appropriate excavating techniques adapted to geological and hydrological conditions, including natural hazards. The production technology and the machines used determine the level of sinking costs and execution period. The article discusses the excavating technologies currently used across the world. Then the assumptions, concept and construction of a new generation of shaft sinking system were presented. The proposed new solution of the system and the excavating technology allow for parallel execution of key processes related to winning, loading, transport and shaft wall-side lining, which significantly increases the progress of sinking. The shaft sinking system was created by scientists from AGH in cooperation with KOPEX – Przedsiębiorstwo Budowy Szybów S. A. and Instytut Techniki Górniczej KOMAG.
Steel yielding arch support constructed of V profiles is commonly used to protect galleries and, in some cases, to reinforce or secure a shaft support. For this purpose, a closed, circular-shaped arch support is used, with arches overlapped by clamps that are typical for this type of construction. The support has high resistance to the impact of even (distributed over the entire surface of the support) load, however, as a result of significant deformation associated with a change in the radius of the curvatures, the support shows limited yielding capacity. This is due to the increase in resistance to slide on the locks, resulting from changes in the geometry of the ring caused by the rock mass. This article presents the results of research and analysis concerning the elements of the arch support with notches in arches. The research team tested the effect of the depth and location of the notches of the section’s flanges on the load impacting on the clamp’s bolts and the strength of the roof support. Moreover, the tests covered the influence of the number and location of clamps in a frictional joint on the change in the nature of work and yielding capacity. Finally, the research included both strength tests of the support’s elements, as well as strength analyses based on the finite element method.
Kopalnia rudy żelaza należąca do państwowego koncernu Luossavaara – Kiirunavaara AB-LKAB posiada kilkanaście górniczych wyciągów szybowych skipowych przeznaczonych do ciągnięcia rudy żelaza. Pomimo stosowania nowoczesnych systemów zabezpieczenia ruchu tych wyciągów w myśl szwedzkich przepisów na tzw. wolnych drogach przejazdu w wieży i rząpiu muszą być stosowane urządzenia do awaryjnego hamowania naczyń. W artykule omówiono główne wymagania, jakie zgodnie ze szwedzkimi przepisami odnośnie eksploatacji górniczych wyciągów szybowych muszą spełniać tego typu urządzenia oraz przedstawiono zaproponowane rozwiązanie konstrukcyjne urządzenia hamującego górniczego wyciągu szybowego zainstalowanego w szybie B-1 kopalni Kiruna. W przedmiotowym wyciągu postanowiono zastosować cierny układ hamujący w postaci ruchomych belek odbojowych opracowany w Katedrze Transportu Linowego w Akademii Górniczo-Hutniczej w Krakowie. Działanie ruchomych belek odbojowych polega na tym, że belki te, usytuowane na początku wolnych dróg przejazdu, nie tylko wyhamowują rozpędzone naczynia wyciągowe ale też – dzięki wbudowanym urządzeniom wychwytującym naczynia – spełniają funkcję podchwytów. Zabezpieczają więc naczynia przed spadkiem do szybu po zakończonym procesie hamowania. Zaletą takiego rozwiązania jest to, że elementy konstrukcyjne: trzonu prowadniczego wieży, głowicy naczynia i belek odbojowych, w momencie uderzenia naczynia w ruchome belki odbojowe przenoszą wielokrotnie mniejsze wartości sił dynamicznych w porównaniu z siłami dynamicznymi powstającymi w chwili uderzenia naczynia w nieruchome belki odbojowe. W procesie projektowania ruchomych belek odbojowych ważnym etapem jest symulacja hamowania przeprowadzana przy wykorzystaniu programu komputerowego opracowanego w KTL AGH. Program ten umożliwia zamodelowanie lin nośnych i wyrównawczych jako elementów elastycznych o właściwościach sprężysto-tłumiących. Wyniki tych symulacji zwłaszcza w zakresie uzyskanych opóźnień hamowania naczyń, wartości dróg hamowania oraz sił w wartości lin nośnych są kluczowe dla potwierdzenia poprawności przyjętej koncepcji układu awaryjnego hamowania. Urządzenia hamujące w postaci ruchomych belek odbojowych zostały wykonane przez polską firmę Coal-Bud Sp. z o.o. i obecnie są zabudowywane w wieży i rząpiu szybu B-1 kopalni Kiruna w Szwecji.
The aim of research was creation of a furnace for aluminum alloys smelting “in a liquid bath” in order to reduce metal loss. In the paper,
the author demonstrates the results of research on smelting of aluminum alloys in a shaft-reverberatory furnace designed by the author. It
has been shown that smelting aluminum alloy in a liquid bath was able to significantly reduce aluminum loss and that shaft-reverberatory
design provided high efficiency and productivity along with lower energy costs. Ensuring continuous operation of the liquid bath and
superheating chamber, which tapped alloy with the required texture, was achieved by means of the optimal design of partition between
them. The optimum section of the connecting channels between the liquid bath of smelting and the superheating chamber has been
theoretically substantiated and experimentally confirmed. The author proposed a workable shaft-reverberatory furnace for aluminum
alloys smelting, providing solid charge melting in a liquid bath.
Electro-dynamic passive magnetic bearings are now viewed as a feasible option when looking for support for high-speed rotors. Nevertheless, because of the skew-symmetrical visco-elastic properties of such bearings, they are prone to operational instability. In order to avoid this, the paper proposes the addition of external damping into the newly designed vibrating laboratory rotor-shaft system. This may be achieved by means of using simple passive dampers that would be found among the components of the electro-dynamic bearing housings along with magnetic dampers, which satisfy the operational principles of active magnetic bearings. Theoretical investigations are going to be conducted by means of a structural computer model of the rotor-shaft under construction, which will take into consideration its actual dimensions and material properties. The additional damping magnitudes required to stabilize the most sensitive lateral eigenmodes of the object under consideration have been determined by means of the Routh-Hurwitz stability criterion.
In this paper, the author derives theoretical formulae for calculating of squeezing forces. This report is the first one concerning the method of forming stepped shafts by longitudinal cold rolling. The formulae of the radial squeezing forces for the final passage of longitudinal rolling were calculated under the Huber hypothesis of plastic deformation and maximum shear stress.
Based on the analysis of the LIDAR terrain Digital Elevation Model (DEM), traces of opencast and underground mining of iron ore mining were located and classified. They occur in the zone of ore-bearing deposits outcropping on the north-eastern and north-western bounds of the Holy Cross Mountains. The DEM of an area covered by thirty-six (36) standard sheets of the Detailed Geological Map of Poland on a scale of 1:50,000 was thoroughly explored with remote sensing standards. Four types of ore recovery shafts with accompanying waste heaps were classified. The acquired data on the extent of former mining areas, covered with varying shafts and barren rock heaps could make a basis for distinguishing, according to historical data and in cooperation with archaeologists, the historical development stages of today’s steel industry. According to general knowledge, the iron industry in Europe instigate dates from the Roman times, in the Ist century BC to the IVth century AD, throughout the earlier and the late medieval times, up to the most recent the 1970ties. The usefulness of the LIDAR method has already been amazingly confirmed in archaeological researches worldwide. Many discoveries of ling forgotten, even large entities resulting from human activities in Asia and Central America especially were discovered owed to the LIDAR DEM. Also, traces of human settlements from various historical periods were discovered that way in Poland. The applicability of DEM based on LIDAR data is, in geological studies of surficial geodynamic processes and in geological mapping in Poland, rather contested.
This work presents an innovative shaft-lining solution which, in accordance with a patent of the Republic of Poland, allows successive, periodic leaching of excess rock salt migrating to the shaft opening. As is commonly known, all workings in rock salt strata are exposed to an increased convergence of sidewalls, making it very difficult to use shafts properly. Rocks migrating towards the shaft opening cause very high stress on the shaft liner. As a result, if the lining does not show substantial deformability, it fails. Lining failure due to insufficient deformability has been extensively described in the literature. Also, throughout the history of mining construction, a number of solutions have been proposed for different types of lining-deformability enhancement. For instance, the KGHM mining corporation applied a deformable steel lining – a solution used in the mining construction of galleries – along a 155-m-long section of the SW-4 shaft with diameters of 7,5 m that passes through a rock salt strata. At KGHM, the SW-4 shaft passes through a rock salt strata along a section of 155 m, in which a deformable enclosed steel lining was made. After several years, the convergence of shaft sidewalls stabilised at a rate of 0.5 mm/day. This enormous activity of the rock mass made it necessary to reconstruct the entire shaft section after only four years. According to further predictions, it will be necessary to reconstruct this section at least four times by 2045. This paper discusses in short form the underlying weaknesses of the technology in question.
As a solution to the problems mentioned above, the authors of this work present a very simple design of a shaft lining, called the tubing-aggregate lining, which utilises the leachability of salt rock massifs. The essential part of the lining is a layer of coarse aggregate set between the salt rock sidewall and the inner column of the tubing lining. One the one hand, coarse aggregate supports the salt rock sidewall and is highly deformable due to its compressibility, but on the other hand it allows water or low saturated brine to migrate and dissolve salt rock sidewalls.
This paper presents the first stage of works on this subject. Patent No. PL 223831 B had been granted before these works commenced.