Category Archives: Functional Design

The functional trafficability of the haul road is as important as the structural strength of the design. This is dictated to a large degree through the selection, application and maintenance of the wearing course, sheeting (or road surfacing) materials.

Design, Dust Palliation, Functional Design, Sheeting Design

Functional Design – Sheeting and Dust Palliation

The functional trafficability of the haul road is as important as the structural strength of the design. This is dictated to a large degree through the selection, application and maintenance of the wearing course, sheeting (or road surfacing) materials.

Poor functional performance is manifest as poor ride quality, excessive dust, increased tyre wear and damage, and an accompanying loss of productivity due to rolling resistance increase associated with surface deterioration (or ‘defects’). The result of these effects is seen as an increase in overall vehicle operating and maintenance costs.

For further details, see the book:

Mining Haul Roads: Theory and Practice
1st Edition
Roger Thompson, Rodrigo Peroni, Alex T. Visser

CRC Press
Published December 11, 2018
Reference – 294 Pages
ISBN 9781138589629
CAT# K386669

Click here for additional references on wearing course selection and on dust palliation/stabilisation selection and management.

Design, Functional Design

References: Functional Design of Mine Haul Roads

These references cover functional design of mine haul roads.

Atkinson, T. and Walton, G. 1983 Design and Layout of Haul Roads for Surface Mines. Surface Mining and Quarrying – Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Surface Mining Symposium. Bristol. pp 139-149

Collins, J. L. Fytas, K. and Singhal, R. K. 1986. Design, Construction and Maintenance of Surface Mine Haulage Roads. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Geotechnical Stability in Surface Mining, Calgary, Alberta. Pp 39-49

Giummarra, G.J. Foley, G. and Cropley, S. 1996. Road Dust Control Techniques. Evaluation of Chemical Dust Suppressants Performance. ARRB Transport Research Special Report 54

Jones, D. and Paige-Green, P. 1996. The Development of Performance Related Material Specifications and the Role of Dust Palliatives in the Upgrading of Paved Roads. Proceedings of Roads 96, vol. 3. ARRB. Pp199-212

Kaufman, W.W. and Ault, J.C. 1977. The design of surface mine haul roads a manual. USDOI Information circular 8758.

Mc Innes, D.B. 1982. The selection of gravels for use on unsealed access roads. Australian IMM conference on off-highway truck haulage, Mt Newman, Australia.

Taylor, P.F. and Hurry, P.A. 1986. Design, Construction and Maintenance of Haul Roads. The Planning and Operation of Open-Pit and Strip Mines. Ed Deetlefs, J.P., SAIMM. pp 139-149

Thompson, R.J. 1996. The design and maintenance of surface mine haul roads. PhD Thesis, University of Pretoria, South Africa.

Thompson, R.J. and Visser, A.T. 2000. The functional design of surface mine haul roads. Jnl. of the South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 100:3, May/June, pp169-180.

Thompson, R.J. and Visser, A.T. 2000. The reduction of the safety and health risk associated with the generation of dust on strip coal mine haul roads. Safety in Mines Research Advisory Committee, Collieries Sub-committee Final Report. Project COL 467, Pretoria, South Africa.

Thompson, R.J and Visser, A.T. 2002. Benchmarking and managing surface mine haul road dust emissions. Transactions of the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (UK), Section A, 113.

Thompson R.J. and Visser A.T. 2006. Selection and maintenance of mine haul road wearing course materials. Trans(A) (Mining Technology) Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Materials (IMMM). 115:4, pp140-153

Design, Functional Design, Structural Design

References: General Concepts in Mine Haulage and Road Design

These references cover general issues related to mine haul road design.

CATERPILLAR. 2009. A Reference Guide to Mining Machine Applications. Field Guide. AEXQ0030-02. Peoria, Ill., USA.

Gilewicz, P. 2001. What Goes Where: Application of large trucks in major mineral markets. World Mining Equipment. 25:8.

Gilewicz, P. 2006. The market for large mining trucks & loading equipment: What’s happened & what’s ahead. CD-ROM. Mining Media Haulage and Loading Conference, Phoenix, Az., USA, May 24-26.

Lay, M.G. 1998. Handbook of Road Technology Volume 1 Planning and Pavements. 3rd Ed. Gordon and Beach Science Publishers.

Minerals Council of Australia (MCA). Mobile equipment incident causation survey (MEICS) 2005-2006 survey findings and recommendation. Available at http://www.minerals.org.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/18896/_hoilquipmnninuionurvy5_6.pdf

MineMap, 2008. www.minemap.com.au/express.php. Accessed March 2011

Nebot, EM. 2007. Surface mining: main research issues for autonomous operations. Robotics Research, STAR publication No. 28, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, pp268-280.

Parreira, J and Meech, J. 2010. Autonomous vs manual haulage trucks – how mine simulation contributes to future haulage system developments. CIM Meeting 2010, Vancouver-BC, Canada.

Pukkila, J and Sarkka, P. 2000. Intelligent mine technology program and its implementation. Proc. Massmin 2000, Brisbane, Australia.

Thompson, RJ. 2011. Mine Road Design and Management In Autonomous Hauling Operations: A Research Roadmap. AUSIMM FutureMine Conference 2011, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Thompson, RJ. 2011. Building better haul roads. Engineering and Mining Journal, Mining Media International, June 2011, pp48-53.

Thompson, RJ. 2011. Design, construction and management of haul roads. In: SME Mining Engineering Handbook. Ed. Darling. Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration, INC (SME), Lyttelton, Co. USA., pp957-976

Yoder, EJ. and Witczak, MW. 1975. Principles of Pavement Design. John Wiley & Sons Inc.,USA.