BE introduced mine scale discontinuum 3d modelling to the coal industry as a new standard for everyday modelling tasks. This was a step change in model resolution for coal mine simulation:
![BE-PAGE-COAL01](http://beckengineering.support/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/BE-PAGE-COAL01-e1328455135771.png)
Rock and coal damage and subsidence of an underground coal mine modelled with a 3D mine-scale discontinuum FE model.
- Transparent workflow and results: BE makes all results, inputs and assumptions available to our clients – See Simulation Aided Mining Engineering: Collaborative monitoring, modelling and planning
- We account for geometry, structure and impacts of hydrogeology to generate more reliable and better understood subsidence forecasts.
- We simulate interactions with groundwater in 3d, including simulation of steady-state or transient groundwater changes including the effects of structures, discontinuities and faults.
![BE-PAGE-COAL02](http://beckengineering.support/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/BE-PAGE-COAL02-e1328455257310.png)
Regional geo-structural model of a coal mine. This model involved more that 12 million degrees of freedom in a non-linear discontinuum analysis.
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