Welcome to Mining Engineering Design Laboratory. This web page is under development and new material is being added regularly.
The Technical University of Crete is a new Institution founded in Chania in 1977 and accepted its first students in 1984. The purpose of this Institution is to teach and train engineers, to conduct research, to establish firm links with other Academic Institutions, Research Centers and Industry both in Greece and EU and most importantly to function as the technological nucleus for the development of this region. The Institution provides excellent opportunities for developmental actions, encourages and supports its staff and faculty to assume leadership in such coordinated actions. The Laboratory of Mining Engineering Design, has been founded in 1997. It has supported a number of EU and national funded projects in the area of Surface and Underground Mining Engineering (calculation of ore reserves with Kriging and simulation, geotechnical characterization, excavation method and equipment selection, transformation of surface quarries into underground etc), Marble quarrying, Tunnelling, Protection of Cultural Heritage, Standardization of Rock Mechanics Tests, Earthquake Engineering and Fracture Mechanics. The Mine Design lab has so far coordinated two EC Projects, namely the Standards, Measurement and Testing (SMT) FP4 Project “Monuments” and the Energy, Environment & Sustainable Development Project FP5 “DIAS”. During the past 4 years (2005-2009) the lab has actively participated in the largest EU funded project in Tunnelling TUNCONSTRUCT (http://www.tunconstruct.org) promoting new concepts in tunnelling design, Roadheaders and TBMs. See for example the attached report "Tunconstruct Going Underground".
One of the main tasks of the lab is to convey to undergraduate and postgraduate students: (1) the newly acquired research results into the education (4 undergraduate courses: "Surface Mining", "Stability of Surface and Underground Constructions", "Underground Mining Methods and Tunnelling", "Fracture Mechanics" and a Post-Graduate Course in "Advanced Geomechanics"), and (2) useful tools for professonals Mining Engineers such as CAD design, modern software and new experimental devices. It should be noted that part of the hardware of the Lab dedicated for experimental demonstrations in education and research is home-made. Further, part of the software such as Finite Elements for studying diffusion problems in Geomechanics, Boundary Elements for Fracture Mechanics problems, Geostatistical algorithms (Kriging estimations and Simulation) and algorithms for the prediction of performance of Roadheaders and TBMs, is also home-made.
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