“…Different investigators have proposed several performance prediction equations for roadheaders (Gehring, 1989;Bilgin et al, 1990;Rostami et al, 1994;Copur et al, 1998;Thuro and Plinnin-ger, 1999;Göktan and Güneş, 2005;Tumac et al, 2007;Ocak and Bilgin, 2010;Ebrahimabadi et al, 2011;Abdolreza and Yakhchali, 2013;Kahraman and Kahraman, 2016;Kahraman et al, 2019). Using these models, net cutting rate (NCR) is calculated.…”