SBMR an AHP Algorithm for Selection of the Best Access Road of Mines

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Head of Geotechnical and Tunnel Department of Ettehad Rah Consulting Engineers

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Roads mines can be divided to two categories. First is the roads in the mines area such as open-pits road and the second is access mines roads which they connect key points together such as refinery factory or dumps or main roads for cities or ports. The first roads are short life and their specifications are low quality. The second roads have long life and high quality specifications. In this paper has been tried to suggestion a new algorithm for selection of the best road path by AHP method. The name of the algorithm is SBMR which they have three main indexes and eighteen parameters. The minimum and maximum value is zero to 100. The most sensitive parameter is amount of structures with 23.6 % and lowest sensitive parameter is decoupage with 0.4 %. A case study was selected for validity of the SBMR. It was a copper mine in Kerman province entitle Nochoon mine. There were four variants with 12, 14, 16, 18 km lengths. Variant number two with 14 km length and 7 % average slope with 11 m width has been selected as the best path for the case study by SBMR.

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