Insights
The work behind the programme.
Insights is the programme's research journal: an accessible place to understand what our students and staff are investigating, why the work matters and what the evidence is beginning to show. Explore research summaries, programme updates, conference stories and perspectives that connect individual studies to safer, more productive mechanised mining.
Predicting brake wear when the future does not look like the past
AFRICOMP 2026 research used multi-physics digital twins to explore brake-wear prognosis, including degradation outside the historical pattern.
View detailsTraction, stopping distance and safer skid-steered vehicles
At the AMRE Safety Seminar, RAMMS showed how terrain-aware traction estimates can strengthen braking, stability and collision-avoidance decisions.
View detailsBuilding a traction-estimation digital twin for steep, low-profile mining
Inside the RAMMS model, experiments and algorithms that estimate anisotropic terrain traction, predict slip and detect changing ground conditions.
View detailsWhat makes a mining digital twin actionable?
A practical view of digital twins as synchronised models that estimate state, support optimisation and lead to an intervention on a mining asset.
View detailsRethinking the batch limits of underground blasting
A research perspective on whether mechanised preparation, charging and support could reduce the rigid timing losses of conventional drill-and-blast cycles.
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