LEPL Grigol Tsulukidze Mining Institute

Grigol Tsulukidze Mining Institute

History of the Institute

The Institute was founded in 1957 on the basis of the Mining Department of the Institute of Metallurgy and Mining of the Academy of Sciences of Georgia and the Georgian branch of the Union Scientific Research Institute of the Coal Industry of the Soviet Union. The initiator of the establishment of the institute and its first director (1957-1973) was an outstanding scientist and public figure, honored worker of Georgian science and technology, academician of the Georgian Academy of Sciences A. nanny

Since 1957, the institute has been named after Grigol Tsulukidze. He was an outstanding mining scientist and public figure, founder of the Georgian Scientific School of Mining , academician of the Georgian Academy of Sciences .

The Institute is the only specialized scientific institution in Transcaucasia , where large-scale fundamental and applied researches are conducted in the current scientific-technical direction of mining.

1973-1980 The institute was headed by E. Mindeli, an honored figure of science and technology of the Russian Federation and Georgia, an outstanding scientist and a great public figure, a member-correspondent of the Academy of Sciences of Georgia. His great contribution to the creation and equipping of the institute’s buildings and laboratory bases should be noted.

In 1980-1988, the Institute was headed by a well-known mining scientist and public figure, member-correspondent of the Georgian Academy of Sciences I. Zurabishvili.

In 1988-2006, the director of the institute was the well-known mining scientist and public figure, member-correspondent of the Georgian Academy of Sciences L. Japaridze.

General Information

G. Tsulukidze Mining Institute (formerly known as G. A. Tsulukidze Institute of Mining Mechanics of the Georgian Academy of Sciences) was founded in 1957. In 2006, the institute received the status of a legal entity under public law. The number of the main staff of the institute is determined by 113 staff units. Among them, 30 scientific personnel: 8 chief scientific workers, 7 senior scientific workers, 15 scientific workers. 9 employees under the age of 35 work in the scientific departments (including 4 scientific employees, 3 engineers, 1 technician), as well as a young employee who is the manager of scientific programs and the head of the scientific center for constructive research and design. Future plans of young specialists include further raising of scientific qualifications. – 3 of them are doctoral candidates, 2 are PhDs and 4 are masters.

Departments and laboratories: 1. Department of construction of underground structures, processing of deposits and complex mechanization:

a) underground construction laboratory;

b) ore processing laboratory;

c) complex mechanization laboratory.

2. Explosive Technology Division:

a) Explosive materials research and explosion technology laboratory;

b) Laboratory of high-tech materials;

c) Laboratory of explosion protection technologies.

3. Properties and quality control department of rocks, building materials.

4. Department of Analytical Chemistry and Mineral Beneficiation.

5. Scientific center of structural research and design.

The mining institute also has a water physico-chemical analysis and technologies group.

The main directions of scientific and technical work of the institute are:

· Perfection of construction and reconstruction of buildings of various purposes, creation of reliable and economical underground tunneling technologies and support structures;

· Development of highly productive, safe technologies for the processing of Margi mineral deposits; Study of sustainability of quarry slopes;

· Hydromechanized complexes and pipeline hydrotransport;

· ropeway vehicles, lifting transport devices and mechanisms;

· Creation of new, environmentally friendly, industrial explosives and improvement of blasting technologies;

· Researching the seismic effect caused by a massive explosion and developing ways to reduce its impact on engineering structures;

· Development of computer programs for drilling and blasting works in order to determine optimal parameters;

· Blasting of metals; technologies for obtaining nanostructured composite materials;

· development of protection systems for people and mining objects from explosion effects;

· Determining the indicators of properties of rocks and building materials and quality control;

· Development of technologies of new soundproofing and artificial building materials with low thermal conductivity;

· calculation and design of underground structures and tunnels;

· Chemical analysis of ores and their beneficiation products;

· water and soil analysis (except microbiological);

· Technological testing of metallic and non-metallic mineral resources by mechanical (gravity, magnetic and electrostatic separation, flotation) and chemical (hydrometallurgy) enrichment methods in order to assess the economic potential of the deposit;

· improvement of existing technological processes of mineral enrichment;

· Environmental problems of the mining industry.

Material and technical base:

The institute has an underground experimental base for testing explosives up to 100 kg TNT equivalent, presses (TechPress2TM hydraulic pneumatic automatic mounting press), stands, optical microscopes, X-ray diffraction systems X1 (Scintag, USA), metallographic, chemical and diagnostic laboratory equipment.

Cooperation in the field of scientific research and technology:

The Mining Institute closely cooperates with the scientific research centers and institutes of the EU countries: Germany (Claustal University of Technology), Greece, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic; USA (Los Alamos National Laboratory, US Army Scientific Research Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Georgia Institute of Technology, South Dakota School of Mining Industry and Technology, University of San Diego, Brookhaven National Laboratory); Russia (Chernogolovk Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics, Institute of High Pressure Physics, Novosibirsk Institute of Hydrodynamics; Ukraine (Institute of Nature Use and Ecology Problems of the National Academy of Sciences in Dnepropetrovsk, Paton Institute of Electric Welding, Yuzhnoe State Design Bureau) and others.

Participation in scientific projects:

G. Tsulukidze Mining Institute participated in the projects of Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation (Georgia), International Scientific and Technical Center (ISTC), Science and Technology Center in Ukraine (STCU), US Civil Research and Development Fund (CRDF), Georgian Scientific and Technological Development Fund (GRDF), in the NATO program “Science for Peace and Security” (SPS), in a number of scientific projects funded by the International Association for Cooperation with Scientists of the Independent Republics of the Former Soviet Union (INTAS), Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).

In 2014, 3 testing laboratories of G. Tsulukidze Mining Institute received accreditation.

1. Explosive Materials Research and Explosive Technologies Testing Laboratory

Scope of accreditation: Explosive substances

Accreditation certificate number: GAC-TL-0072

http://gac.gov.ge/acredit/1__samto institute fetqebadi laboratoria.pdf

2. Testing laboratory for the properties and quality control of buildings, building materials

Scope of accreditation: non-mineral materials, paving and road materials:

Concrete, ground; the rock

Accreditation certificate number: GAC-TL-0071

http://gac.gov.ge/acredit/1__SAMTO INT SAMSHENEBLO MASALEBI.pdf

3. Test laboratory for preparation of earthing contour resistance

Scope of accreditation: Measurement of earth loop impedance

Accreditation certificate number: GAC-TL-0073

Main scientific directions and technical works of the institute:

reconstruction and improvement of production of mining, transport, hydro-engineering and other structures, development of technologies for efficient and economical management of tunnels and auxiliary structures;
Study of the state of tension of the mining rock masses and the underground structure near the mining works; improving their assessment methods;
Development of methods for calculating static, rheological/flow and dynamic load of mining works and underground structures and development of their software and technical manuals; their use in specific projects;
Development of hydrotransport systems (pulp pipelines, oil pipelines and gas pipelines); safe and reliable operation of complex events;
development of the latest environmentally friendly explosives;
Development of systems for protection of personnel and mining objects from the effects of explosions.

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