Dr. Tingkan LU

Position:      Professor

Phone:        +86 13639624659

Email:         tklu@hpu.edu.cn

Office:               Rm. 411, Energy Science and Engineering Building, Mail Campus

Tingkan Lu is a professor and doctoral supervisor in School of Energy Science and Engineering. He obtained his PhD from the University of New South Wales, Australia , and has worked as a mining engineer and research scientist ever since in Australia and China .

Over the course of his career, Professor Lu has worked in a wide range of mining and geotechnical engineering in Australia and China , such as roof bolting reinforcement, including traditional roof bolting and self-drilling roof bolt, strata control, coal seam gas drainage and coal seam fracture stimulation. He has extensive experience in field and theoretical researches. Professor Lu’s current focus is on coal seam fracture stimulation. The fracture stimulation is one of the key issues in energy sector, including coal mining, old, natural gas and shell gas industries. Particularly, due to low permeability of coal seam, the coal seam gas drainage presents enormous challenges for mine management in safety and productivity. Apart from these traditional projects, Professor Lu has worked on a project on geo-database development for providing data exchange in coal mine strata control.  

Current research interests:

Theoretical and numerical research in coal seam fracture stimulation.

Selected publications:

T.Lu, et al:   TNT equivalence and fragmentation mechanisms of high pressure gas fracturing technique, Blasting and Fragmentation, 2017，Vol.11, No.1, pp.56-84.  

T.Lu, et al:   Coal seam fracturing by a high-pressure waterjet technique to increase

                     efficiency of coal mine gas drainage，Journal of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy，2016，116(1)：79-84.

T.Lu, et al:   Improvement of coal seam gas drainage by under panel cross strata stimulation using highly pressurized gas, International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences, 2015, pp.300-312, DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrmms.2015.03.034.

T.Lu, et al:   Numerical simulating and benchmarking of waterjet fracturing parameters in coal beds, Acta Geodyn. Geomater, 2015, Vol. 12, No. 1 (177), 39-50, 2015. DOI: 10.13168/AGG.2015.0002

T.Lu, et al:   Improving the gate road development rate and reducing outburst occurrences using the waterjet technique in high gas content outburst-prone soft coal seam, International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Science, 2011, Vol.48, 1271 - 1282.

T.Lu, et al:   Longhole waterjet rotary cutting for in-seam cross panel methane drainage, International Journal of Mining Science and Technology, 2010, Vol. 20, pp. 378 – 383.

T.Lu et al:     Improvement of methane drainage in high gassy coal seam using waterjet technique, International Journal of Coal Geology, 79, 2009, 40-48.

T.Lu et al:     Deformation and failure of stratified weak roof strata of longwall roadway,International Journal of Minerals, Metallurgy and Materials, 2007, Vol.14,  No.5, pp. 387 - 394.

T.Lu et al:     Numerical study of rock bolting parameter variation effect on stability of stratified, composite roof structure of heading in a coal mine, International Journal of Coal Science and Technology, 2005(1)，17-22.

T.Lu, et al:    Roof separation characteristics of laminated, weak roof strata of longwall roadway，International Journal of Coal Science and Technology，2004(2)，19- 22.

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T.Lu              Geomechanical Behaviour of Laminated, Weak Coal Roof Strata and the Implications for a Ground Reinforcement Strategy, International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences, 41(1), 2004, 147-157.