Successful Collaboration Brings Benefits

Visiting Professor Hongjiang Wang has been working with Associate Professor Chaoshui Xu to investigate the rock-cutting mechanism of drilling by diamond impregnated drill bits. The work is one of six research projects being carried out in the Mining and Geotechnical Engineering Research Group for the Deep Exploration Technologies CRC (DET CRC).

The research involves numerical modelling using discrete element method (DEM). Professor Wang has made significant progress, particularly in the parameter calibration of the numerical models.

Professor Wang who was awarded his PhD from Central South University of China and is now working in the University of Science and Technology Beijing, has been the winner of the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University (in 2008).

He successfully completed a research project for the National Natural Science Foundation of China in 2010 and has twice won second prize in the National Science and Technology Progress Award.

Professor Wang's visit was supported financially by China Scholarship Council. It is anticipated that a long-term relationship will be established between The University of Adelaide and The University of Science and Technology Beijing for research collaborations on various topics in mineral exploration and mining engineering.

Professor Wang has published 85 papers in journals and has eight patents issued in China. His key research interests include innovative mining technologies, tailings disposal and its utilisation, paste backfilling, paste discharging and bioleaching.