Rankine, Rudd M., and Sivakugan, Nagaratnam (2007) Geotechnical properties of cemented paste backfill from Cannington Mine, Australia. Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, 25 (4). pp. 383-393.

Rankine, R., Pacheco, M., and Sivakugan, N. (2007) Underground mining with backfills. Soils and Rocks, 30 (2). pp. 93-101.

Pirapakaran, Kandiah, Sivakugan, Nagaratnam, and Rankine, Rudd (2007) Investigations into strength of Cannington paste fill mixed with blended cements. In: Common Ground. Proceedings of the 10th Australia New Zealand Conference on Geomechanics (2) pp. 144-149. From: 10th Australia New Zealand Conference on Geomechanics, 21-24 Oct 2007, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.

Sivakugan, Nagaratnam, Rankine, Kirralee, and Rankine, Rudd (2006) Permeability of hydraulic fills and barricade bricks. Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, 24 (3). pp. 661-673.

Sivakugan, N., Rankine, R.M., Rankine, K.J., and Rankine, K.S. (2006) Geotechnical considerations in mine backfilling in Australia. Journal of Cleaner Production, 14 (12). pp. 1168-1175.

Sivakugan, Nagaratnam, Rankine, Kirralee , and Rankine, Rudd (2005) Geotechnical aspects of hydraulic filling of underground mine stopes in Australia. In: Indraratna, Buddhima, Chu, Jian, and Hudson, John A., (eds.) Ground Improvement: case histories. Geo-Engineering Book Series, 3 . Elsevier , Oxford, UK, pp. 513-538.

Rankine, Rudd M., and Sivakugan, Nagaratnam (2005) Prediction of paste backfill performance using artificial neural networks. In: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (2) pp. 1107-1110. From: 16th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, 12 - 16 September 2005, Osaka, Japan.

Rankine, R., and Sivakugan, N. (2004) Backfilling of underground mines with paste. In: Proceedings of the 9th Australia New Zealand Conference on Geomechanics. pp. 225-231. From: To the eNZ of the Earth, 8-11 February 2004, Auckland, New Zealand.

Rankine, Rudd McAuslan (2004) The geotechnical characterisation and stability analysis of BHP Billiton's Cannington Mine paste fill. PhD thesis, James Cook University.