UNIVERSITY/SCHOOL: Copperbelt University, School of Mines and Mineral Sciences, Mining Engineering Department

CURRENT POSITION:   Senior Lecturer

E-mail: Bowamwango@gmail.com; Mwango.Bowa@cbu.ac.zm

Mobile: +260 770824262

Physical Address: Plot 1138, Presidential avenue, Off Kitwe road, Kalulushi

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
  • Years: 2016 – 2019; PhD – Wuhan University of Technology: Geotechnical Engineering department, School of Civil Engineering, 122 Luoshi Road, 430070, Hongshani District Wuhan, Hubei Province, China ; Thesis: Stability Analyses of the Jointed Rock slopes with the Counter-tilted Weak Planes subjected to Toppling Failure
  • Years: 2014 – 2016 MSc. Geotechnical Engineering, WHUT, CHINA; Thesis: A Study of Rock Slope Stability in Open Pit Mining-Case Study of Footwall and Northwest Corner of Nchanga Open Pits
  • Years: 2005-2009, B Eng. Mining Engineering, Copperbelt University, Riverside, Kitwe, Zambia; Thesis: Optimizations of Mining operations at Munali Nickel Mine, Mazabuka, Zambia
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
  • Member of the Engineering Institution of Zambia (EIZ)
  • Member of the Engineer’s Regulations Board of Zambia  
COURSES TAUGHT

Undergraduate courses

  • MI  525 – Computer Applications and Numerical methods in Mining 
  • GM 520- Geostatistics and Ore reserve Estimations
  • MI 450- Rock Excavations Engineering                       
  • MI  353- Mine Geostatistics
  • MI  310 – Surface and Underground Mining Methods
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
  • April, 2024- To date: Senior Lecturer– Mining Engineering Department  at Copperbelt University
  • November 2020 to March 2024: Lecturer I – Mining Engineering Department  at Copperbelt University
  • August 2019- October, 2020– Senior Research Fellow- China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China
RESEARCH INTERESTS
  • Geotechnical  Investigations
  • Underground, Dumps, Dams and pits Stability Investigations
  • Geotechnical Testing and Monitoring
  • Innovations of surface and Underground Mining methods
  • Improvements of drilling and blasting techniques
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (last 10 years)
  • October 2024- To date : Team leader- Leading a team of ten (8) academicians from different fields of specialty   from CBU to carry out detailed structural assessment of Aircraft Hangar and assessment of sinkholes at ZAF MUMBWA base.
  • JANUARY 2022- 2025: Recipient of the Government of the Republic of Zambia Research Grant, through the National Science and Technology Council, amounting to ZMW 800,000 for the Slope Stability Analyses of the Jointed Rock Slope in Large and Small Scale Surface Mines subjected to Slide Head Toppling Failure Mechanism.
  • September 2019 –October 2020– Post-Doctoral in the Department of Engineering Geology and Geotechnical Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan).
PUBLICATIONS (last 10 years)
  • Victor Mwango Bowa* and Yuanyou Xia (2018). Influence of counter-tilted failure surface angle on the stability of rock slopes subjected to block toppling failure mechanisms. Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment, 77(4):120-140.
  • Victor Mwango Bowa* and Yuanyou Xia (2018). Stability analyses of jointed rock slopes with counter-titled failure surface subjected to block toppling failure mechanisms. Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, Research Article: Civil Engineering, 43(10):5315-5331.
  • Victor Mwango Bowa* and Yuanyou Xia (2018). Modified analytical technique for block toppling failure of rock slopes with counter tilted failure surface. Indian Geotechnical Journal, 48(4):713-727
  • Victor Mwango Bowa*, Yuanyou Xia and Kabwe Eugie (2018). Analytical technique for stability analyses of rock slopes subjected to block toppling failure. Transactions of the institutions of mining and metallurgy section A: Mining Technology, 127(4):219-229
  • Victor Mwango Bowa*, Yuanyou Xia, Minjia Yan and Kabwe Eugie (2019). Toppling of the jointed rock slope with counter-tilted weak plane planes influenced by the response to local earthquake. International Journal of Mining and Mineral Engineering, 120(4):60-78
  • Chunshu Chen, Yuanyou Xia*, Victor Mwango Bowa (2017). Slope stability analysis by polar slice method in rotational failure mechanism. Computers and Geotechnics, 81 (1):188-194
  • Eugie Kabwe*, Victor Mwango Bowa (2016). Determination of the Appropriate Geometry of Footwall Drifts Using Numerical Analysis Technique. Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, 34(1):1955–1969
  • Victor Mwango Bowa* (2015). Optimization of blasting design parameters on open pit bench- A case study of Nchanga open pits. International Journal of Scientific & Technology Research, IJSTR VOLUME 4-Issue 9.
  • Minjia Yan, Yuanyou Xia*, Tingting Liu, Victor Mwango Bowa (2019). Limit analysis of the slope reinforced with pre-stressed anchor cables under seismic conditions, Computers and Geotechnics.180:226-233.
  • Wang Yiming, Trevor Siame, Victor Mwango Bowa* (2019). Effects of rainfall on the stability of upper stack of the open pit slope. International Journal of Scientific & Technology Research, IJSTR Volume 8-Issue 3.
  • Wang Yiming, Trevor Siame, Victor Mwango Bowa* (2019). Slope stability of the Middle Stack of an Open Pit. International Journal of Scientific & Technology Research Volume 8, Issues 04, April 2019.
  • Victor Mwango Bowa* (2019). Wedge sliding analysis of the rock slope subjected to uplift forces and surcharge loads conditions. Geotechnical and Geological engineering. Doi:10.1007/s1070-019-01027-4
  • Tedius Kasanda, Victor Mwango Bowa* (2019). Causes and Impacts of Hangingwall Instability in Open Stopes: A Case of Chifupu Project in Zambia. Geotechnical and Geological engineering.
  • Lancine Doumbuoya, Chang Sheng Guan, Victor Mwango Bowa*(2019). Influence of Rainfall Pattern on the Slope Stability of the Lumwana (the Malundwe) Open Pit. Geotechnical and Geological Engineering.
  • Victor Mwango Bowa*, Tedius Kasanda. (2021).Wedge Failure Analyses of the jointed Rock Slope Influenced by Foliations. Geotechnical and Geological Engineering. 38:4701-4710.
  • Wenping Gong and Victor Mwango Bowa* (2021). Analytical technique for stability analyses of the rock slope subjected to slide head toppling failure mechanisms considering groundwater and stabilization effects. International Journal of Geo-Engineering, 2021(12:4).
  • Bing Li, Huiming Tang*, Wenping Gong*, Zongxing Zou, Victor Mwango Bowa, and C.  Hsein Juang.(2021). Probabilistic analysis of the discrete element modelling of the runout behavior of the Jiweshan landslide .Numerical and Analytical methods in Geomechanics.
  • Tianhe Ren, Wenping Gong, Victor Mwango Bowa,Huiming Tang, Jun Chen Fumeng Zhao. (2021) An Improved R-Index Model for Terrain Visibility Analyses for Landslides .Remote Sensing.13(1):1938
  • Nathan Chimi Tegachouang, Victor Mwango Bowa*, Xinping Li, Yi Luo & Wenping Gong (2022) Study of the Influence of Block Caving Underground Mining on the Stability of the Overlying Open Pit Mine. Geotechnical and Geological Engineering (2021)
  • Wenping Gong, Victor Mwango Bowa, Chao Zhao, Zhan Cheng & Liang Zhang (2021) Footwall Rock Slope Stability Evaluations at Nchanga Open Pit Mine, Zambia. Geotechnical and Geological Engineering (2021)
  • Agabu Shane, Xinyang Xu, John Siame, Alick Nguvulu, Tewodros Mitiku Tena, Musango Lungu, Sydney Chinyanta, Jackson Kawala, Victor Mwango Bowa, Brian Chirambo (2021) Removal of Copper from Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) or Acid Rock Drainage (ARD). Journal of Water Resource and Protection. Vol.13 No.7, July 2021.
  • Alick Nguvulu, Agabu Shane, Claude Mwale, Tewodros Tena, Phenny Mwaanga, John Siame, Brian Chirambo, Musango Lungu, Frank Mudenda, Dickson Mwelwa, Sydney Chinyanta, Jackson Kawala, Victor Mwango Bowa, Levi. Mutambo, Nicholas Okello, Charles Musonda (2021) Surface Water Quality Response to Land Use Land Cover Change in an Urbanizing Catchment: A Case of Upper Chongwe River Catchment, Zambia. Journal of Geographic Information System  Vol.13 No.5.
  • Xinxin Li, Jianshe Liu , Wenping Gong * , Yi Xu, Victor Mwango Bowa (2021). A discrete fracture network based modeling scheme for analyzing the stability of highly fractured rock slope. Computers and Geotechnics.Volume 141, 104558.
  • Victor Mwango Bowa*, Wallace Samiselo, Ebelia Manda, Agabu Shane, Sydney Chinyanta, Yan Lei, Wei Zhou. 2022. Wedge failure analysis of the slope subjected to uplift forces by analytical method at Chingola open pits F & D. Journal of Mining and Environment. Volume 12, Issue 4, autumn 2021, Pages 941-952.
  • Xiao Han ,Wenping Gong,C. Hsein Juang, Victor Mwango Bowa &Sara Khoshnevisan (2022). CPTu-SPT correlation analyses based on pairwise data in in Southwestern Taiwan .Volume 16, issue 3.
  • Victor Mwango Bowa*, and Kabwe Eugie (2023).Pre-stressed anchor cable force evolution laws of plane sliding bedding slopes. International Journal of Geo-engineering.14:3
  • Abdul Samson, Victor Mwango Bowa, Peter RK Chileshe and Sydney Chinyanta (2023). Review of stability analyses for slide-head toppling failure mechanisms: a different perspective. Arabian Journal of Geosciences.16:195
  • Eugie Kabwe, Victor Mwango Bowa, Webby Banda and Eurie Kabwe (2023) Assessment of Pillar Stability and Support Structure Design in an Inclined Airleg Stope; an Empirical and Numerical Approach.SSRN:https://ssrn.com/abstract=4376094 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4376094
  • Abdul Samson., Victor Mwango Bowa., Peter R. K. Chileshe., Sydney Chinyanta. (2024). Design Charts for Jointed Rock Slopes Susceptible to Slide‑Head Toppling Failure, Geotech Geol Eng. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10706-023-02581-8
  • Mengzhe Huo, Yuanyou Xia, Xiqui Liu, Victor Mwango Bowa, Manqing Li and Yaofeng Yan (2023) Frequency domain analysis of AE waveforms in rockburst specimens under diferent stress gradients. Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment (2023) 82:273 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10064-023-03288-z.
  • Daniel Mabeti, Sinan B. Avci, Noble Chifwaila, Victor Mwango Bowa & Radhe Krishna (2024) Artificial concrete pillars as temporal support system to stabilize active stopes at Al Masane Al Kobra Mine, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Arabian Journal of Geosciences. Volume 17, article number 56.
  • Abdul Samson, Victor Mwango Bowa, Peter R. K. Chileshe, Sydney Chinyanta and Ebelia Manda (2024). Analytical and numerical modelling of the effects of buttressing on slide-head toppling failure. Mining, metallurgy and exploration. 41 (4), 1873-1889.

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

  • Ebelia Manda*, Izhar Mithal Jiskani, Jasper Hatilima, John Mvula, Peter RK Chileshe1, Rennie B. Kaunda, Victor Mwango Bowa, Wei Zhou (2021). Smart mining through the application of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and internet of things (IoT).Proceedings of 2021 Engineering Institution of Zambia Annual Symposium Friday 16th April 2021 – Avani Victoria Falls Resort, Livingstone, Zambia.Pp.118-129.
  • Victor Mwango Bowa. (2020) Wedge failure analyses of the rock slope influenced by foliations. Applied Numerical Modeling in Geomechanics – 2020 – Billaux, Hazard, Nelson & Schöpfer (eds.) Paper: 15-01 ©2020 Itasca International, Inc., Minneapolis, ISBN 978-0-9767577-5-7
  • Victor Mwango Bowa. (2023) Wedge sliding analysis of rock slopes subjected to surcharge load conditions in open pit mines Engineering Institution of Zambia Annual Symposium Friday 24th April 2023 – Avani Victoria Falls Resort, Livingstone, and Zambia.Pp.118-129.
  • Victor Mwango Bowa*, Peter R.K Chileshe, Tedius Kasanda. (2019). Wedge Failure Analyses of the jointed Rock Slope Influenced by Foliations. Second Zambia National Conference on Geology, Mining, Metallurgy and Groundwater Resources Proceedings.
  • Abdul Samson, Victor Mwango Bowa, Peter R K Chileshe and Sydney Chinyanta (2025). Stability analyses for slide‑head toppling failure mechanisms. Zambia International Mining and Energy Conférence and Exbition. Garden Court. Kitwe. 19-20 March, 2025.

BOOK CHAPTER

  • Victor Mwango Bowa and Abdul Samson (2022). Chapter: Slope Stability Analyses Subjected to Slide Head Toppling Failure Mechanisms. Book: Current Perspectives on Applied Geomorphology.