The exploration and development of oil and gas resources have shifted from shallow to
deep and ultradeep. The difficulty of rock breaking has also increased, introducing new …

To improve the tunnelling performance of tunnel boring machines in hard rock and
extremely hard rock environments, abrasive water jet assisted rock breaking is a possible …

Hard rock breaking is a great challenge for deep drilling and mining engineering, and the
microwave-assisted rock breaking technique offers a promising solution. However, the lack …

A new, high-efficiency technology for fracturing and breaking rocks is required. Due to
various advantages including high efficiency, energy-saving, and having no secondary …

Cutting hard rocks has some problems such as low penetration rate and high wear rate of
cutting tools. These problems can be solved by the microwave treatment of hard rocks …

During the exploitation of deep resources, rock masses are under three-dimensional
anisotropic stress conditions owing to tectonic conditions and engineering disturbances …

Microwave irradiation has been considered as one of the most promising approaches to
assisting mechanical rock breakage in rock engineering. Understanding the influence of …

This study introduces a test system for microwave-induced fracturing of hard rocks under
true triaxial stress. The test system comprises a true triaxial stress loading system, an open …

Microwave assisted mechanical rock breaking is a hybrid rock breaking method that
combines microwave heating and mechanical rock breaking technologies and is proven to …

The microwave-assisted rock fragmentation has been proven to be a promising approach to
reducing cutting tools wear and improving efficiency in rock excavation and crushing …