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Table of Contents
Course Overview....................................................................................................................... 4
Course Structure Flow............................................................................................................................ 5
Introduction............................................................................................................................... 6
Pre-Design Setup.................................................................................................................................... 6
Basic Workflow........................................................................................................................................ 6
Tunnel Profiles........................................................................................................................... 7
Tunnel Display Profiles........................................................................................................................... 7
Tunnel Type Profiles................................................................................................................................ 9
Tunnel Display Options......................................................................................................................... 11
Tunnel Design.......................................................................................................................... 12
Create Tunnels...................................................................................................................................... 12
Create Intervals..................................................................................................................................... 13
Create Safety Bay Features.................................................................................................................. 14
Editing Safety Bay Features.................................................................................................................. 15
Moving Safety Bay Features................................................................................................................. 15
Deleting Safety Bay Features............................................................................................................... 16
Review...................................................................................................................................... 17
Index....................................................................................................................................... 178
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Course Overview
The Gemcom GEMS Tunnel Design course is a one-day course designed for mine planners who need a
quick and simple method to evaluate proposed underground advances for medium- to long-term plans.
Course Prerequisites
Before taking this course, you require the following:
Expected Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to accomplish the following:
Combine underground tunnel designs with your geology and excavation data to schedule the mine
development and production
Categorise volume and tonnage reports by working period and by production and development
category
Automatically create triangulation solids (not solid objects) from your tunnel centrelines
Use the tunnels with GEMS Production Scheduler to create production schedules
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Introduction
When working with tunnels, GEMS creates tunnels using the principle of extrusion (the process of
applying a profile shape along a centreline).
Unlike the traditional method of creating underground excavation, which requires that two data objects
(polyline and solid objects), creating tunnels only requires that one object be stored. When you have
created the tunnels, you can display them as simple lines, as footprints (projected onto a plane, with fill
patterns), and as triangulation solids.
Pre-Design Setup
Before you can start designing tunnels, you need to consider several factors that affect the whole design
process. When designing tunnels you need to do the following:
Traffic limitations, including height and width clearances, turning radius, and maximum
tunnel grades.
Design limitations, including drainage and compressed air.
Ventilation, water, and other pipes.
Tunnel workspace(s).
Tunnel-display profile.
Tunnel-type profile.
Rock-code profiles.
Polygon-fill profiles.
Set up an arch shaped heading profile (recommended) to extrude the tunnel centre line, or
set up another shape.
Open and display supporting data that will control the position and shape of the proposed design
Basic Workflow
When you are ready to create the tunnels, use the following workflow:
1. Create, format, and save tunnel centrelines (this work is usually done on plan views):
Divide tunnel segments into intervals (if required) to report development progress by logical
increments (e.g. 10 metre advances per day).
2. Confirm that safety standards are met:
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Tunnel Profiles
When working with tunnels, you need to create the following profile types:
Solids
Centrelines
Footprints
Points
Labels
to enable you to annotate vertices (points), intervals, or the entire tunnel centreline.
The tunnel display profile enables you to format the tunnel centreline, the tunnel footprint (a polygon
projection of the walls and end caps onto the current plane), the tunnel triangulation, the tunnel intervals,
and tunnel features, such as safety bays. You can also add labels to any of these features.
To create a tunnel display profile, follow these steps.
1. Choose Format > Tunnels to open the Tunnel Display Settings dialog box.
2. Click New Profile and name the profile.
3. Select a Workspace and enter a Comment to describe the profile.
4. In the Solids tab, enter the following
information:
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9. Click Apply when you have finished setting the parameters for the profile.
10. To create more profiles, repeat steps 2 to 9.
11. Click OK to exit.
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3. In Shape (heading profile), select a shape to sweep along the centre lines of all tunnels that use this
profile. Click Browse to create a new one if required.
Tip:
The following image is an example of creating the best triangulation by adding an extra point in the basic
tunnel heading shape (top image) and in the heading shape for the safety bay (bottom image).
4. In Default display profile, select a tunnel display profile to be applied to all tunnels of this tunnel
type. Click Browse to create a new one if required.
5. In Default precedence for this tunnel type, enter the default hierarchy.
Tip:
Plan to use a range of numbers that meet your design needs. Typically, main tunnels have a higher
hierarchy (1 or 2) than lesser ones (3, 4, 5, etc.). When tunnels intersect, GEMS uses the hierarchy to
draw the tunnels and to help determine their volumes.
In the following illustration, the blue tunnel (with hierarchy 3) intersects an orange tunnel (with
hierarchy 2). The intersected volume belongs to the orange tunnel because it has the higher
hierarchy.
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Tunnel Design
In this chapter, you will learn how to do the following:
Create tunnels
Create intervals
Create Tunnels
Creating tunnels is similar to creating polylines. In fact, you can use many of the CAD tools from the
Polyline menu when you crate or modify the tunnel segments. In general, you will want to define tunnels
on a plan view, so make sure you have one or more plan views defined. The plan views are typically
named after the mine levels.
To create a tunnel, follow these steps.
1. Select a plan view.
2. Switch to 2D viewing mode.
3. Choose Tunnel > Create Tunnels to open a
Create Tunnel tab to the left of the graphics
area.
4. In this tab, you can select the Workspace, and
enter a Description.
GEMS auto-fills the Tunnel, Tunnel Type, and
Plane fields. You can change these values if
needed.
5. In the Vertex tab, you can manually edit the
values, or digitise the starting point using your
mouse in the graphics area.
While you are in tunnel create mode, you can
use the polyline CAD tools such as Set Point
by Relative Bearing, Extend by Circular
Arc, and Delete Last Segment.
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Create Intervals
After creating and saving the tunnel segments, you can further subdivide the segments into smaller
intervals. These intervals typically represent the face advances of the tunnels during development, as
reported by the working period used for the plan. For example, short-term plans might use intervals
expressed in daily advances (e.g. 10m), whereas medium- to long-term plans might use intervals
expressed in weekly or monthly advances (e.g. 100m or more).
In either case, you always create intervals from the start of the tunnel segment. This would be the first
that is digitised when you were creating the tunnel segments. You can also create intervals by continuing
them from the last interval in the sub-table.
To create intervals in tunnel segments, follow these steps.
1. In the Project View Area, open all the tunnel
segments for which you want to create
intervals.
Note:
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The following image is an example of using longer lead-in distance than lead-out.
Plan view of a drive showing safety bay features created on each side.
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Use this review to test your knowledge on what you just learned.
1. True or False: Tunnel objects are polylines.
3. How can you temporarily override the settings in the tunnel-display profiles?
4. Outline in brief the steps for defining intervals in your tunnels segments.
5. Outline in brief the steps for defining safety bays in your tunnel segments.
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Index
override options, 11
course
outcomes, 4
overview, 4
prerequisites, 4
structure flow, 5
creating data
intervals, 13
safety bays, 14
tunnels, 12
profiles
creating
display, 7
type, 9
display, 7
types, 9
setup
pre-design, 6
display data
profiles, 7, 9
displaying data
workflow, 6
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