- Investigations into rock pressure symptoms in longwall mining panels.
- Determination of conditions of effective and safe conducting and maintaining of longwalls, longwall top and gate roads as well as roadways.
- Work regarding the selection of optimum types of mine workings supports.
- Investigations into rock strength parameters, convergence of mine workings, load-bearing capacity of individual and powered support.
- Investigation and selection of packing types for different mining-technical conditions in order to increase the effectiveness of extraction with packing application.
- Investigation and selection of packing materials for surface and deposit protection in mining systems with hydraulic stowing.
- Scientific-research work with respect to methods and means of maintaining of roadways and vertical openings.
- Investigations into auxiliary methods of mine workings maintaining (coating support, binding materials lining, filling of voids, insulation) as well as means and equipment to use these methods.
- Work relating to the determination of requirements for mining supports designed for work in mine workings threatened with rockbursts.
- Performing of underground research work concerning mining supports designed for mine workings threatened with rockbursts.
- Research work on the determination of support selection methods for specific mining and geological conditions.
- Designing of new types of steel roadway support, roof bolting and bolting-bearing support for specific mining and geological conditions.
- Research work connected with technical restructuring of the coal mining sector.
- Research work connected with safe closure of underground parts of mines.
- Research work on the improvement of mining systems in safety pillars.
- Research work with respect to underground construction (tunnels and hydrotechnical mine workings).
- Investigations into the determination of the shaft lining state.
- Development of technical and technological projects relating to the reconstruction of damaged shaft linings.
- Projects of shaft adaptation in closed mines to central pumping.
- Unmanned control of the shaft lining state using television cameras.
- Designing of shaft filling-up.
- Selection of materials and methods of protection relating to the part of remained deposit in closed mines.
- Designing of support for underground passages and tunnel construction.
- Consultations with respect to the support of underground reinforced concrete structures (shelters, underground garages etc.).
- Designing of underground protective barriers for underground disposal of harmful wastes.
DEPARTMENT OF EXTRACTION TECHNOLOGIES AND MINING SUPPORT
Poland, 40-166 Katowice, Plac Gwarków 1
Head of Department
Assoc. Prof. D.Sc. Eng.
PRUSEK STANISŁAW
tel.phone: +48 32 259 2423, +48 32 258 4425
e-mail: s.prusek@gig.eu
LABORATORY OF ROAD SUPPORT DESIGN AND MINE WORKINGS MAINTENANCE
Head of Laboratory
D.Sc. Eng.
ROTKEGEL MAREK
phone: +48 32 259 2489
e-mail: m.rotkegel@gig.eu
LABORATORY OF SUPPORT SELECTION FOR EXTRACTION MINE WORKINGS
Head of Laboratory
D.Sc. Eng.
RAJWA SYLWESTER
phone: +48 32 259 2410
e-mail: s.rajwa@gig.eu
LABORATORY OF UNDERGROUND ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION
Head of Laboratory
D.Sc. Eng.
STAŁĘGA STANISŁAW
phone: +48 32 259 2635
e-mail: s.stalega@gig.eu
