Chathuranga Balasooriya Arachchilage
Contact
Grad Research Asst Fellowship, Faculty of Engineering - Civil and Environmental Engineering Dept
- cbalasoo@ualberta.ca
Courses
MIN E 330 - Mine Transport and Plant Engineering
Underground and surface mine transport systems, including truck haulage, free steered vehicles, rail haulage, wire rope hoisting, belt conveying, silo storage, hydraulic pipelining and pneumatic conveying. Auxiliary mining services such as electric power distribution, pumping and compressed air power. Labs include software-based design problems dealing with the materials taught in the classroom. Prerequisites: MIN E 295 and ECE 209.
MIN E 414 - Underground Mining Methods
Methods and applications in underground excavation and tools to select equipment for underground drilling and loading processes. Methodology to examine shape, size and orientation effects, as well as support requirements, in the design of underground mine opening. Methods include room-and-pillar, sublevel stoping and caving, vertical crater retreat, block caving, selective methods for vein mines, and underground coal mining systems. Labs include software-based design problems dealing with underground mining methods selection, visualization and optimization. Prerequisites: MIN E 323, MIN E 324 and MIN E 325 or consent of Instructor.
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Featured Publications
Chathuranga Balasooriya Arachchilage, Guangping Huang, Chengkai Fan, Wei Victor Liu
2023 December; 409 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2023.134083
Chathuranga Balasooriya Arachchilage, Chengkai Fan, Jian Zhao, Guangping Huang, Wei Victor Liu
2023 January; 15 (11):2803-2815 10.1016/j.jrmge.2022.12.009
Chathuranga Balasooriya Arachchilage, Saman Illankoon, Nimila Dushyantha
2022 April; 196 10.1016/j.actaastro.2022.04.008