UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES COAL PILLAR STRENGTH ...
mining height, increasing with increasing mining height. The need to nominate a minimum critical pillar width has been incorporated into the analysis by modifying equation 6 on the basis that almost all pillars can be regarded as paral-lelepipeds, i.e., their bases are parallelograms (figure 1). Pillars therefore have side lengths w 1 and w 2 ...