With the transition from Open Pit to Block Cave mining at the Chuquicamata Underground Project, it was necessary to validate ITASCA´s caving algorithm (IMASS) as used to predict caveability in a structurally controlled environment. CODELCO proposed a case study at Esmeralda Mine, El Teniente Division, which was known to have been influenced by the presence of a few major faults in its development.
Claudio is a Civil Mining Engineer from the University of Santiago of Chile who performed his end-of-degree project analyzing a support system on a laboratory scale that has a self-supporting capacity in order to establish relationships between the main variables that define the physical behavior of the model. Also, Itasca's UDEC was used to observe the behavior of the stresses within the rock mass. He worked in the rock mechanics laboratory (CGEM) preparing and executing destructive and non-destructive geomechanical tests on intact rock.
Intended for PhD students
1-year no cost lease of ITASCA Software
Mentorship by an ITASCA engineer
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Intended for professors
Up to 10 seats for student use
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