scholarly journals Accident Analysis in Relation to Main Roof Structure When Longwall Face Advances toward a Roadway: A Case Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chang Liu ◽  
Zengqiang Yang ◽  
Peilin Gong ◽  
Kai Wang ◽  
Xiaoqiang Zhang ◽  
...  

Practices show that hydraulic supports crushing accidents or roadway supports failure often take place when a longwall face advances toward an abandoned roadway or a predriven equipment recovery room. Therefore, a 2D similar simulation experiment is conducted to reveal the loading mechanism. The result shows that when the workface advances close to roadways, the main roof breaks ahead of the workface and leads to instability of higher strata. These two changes induce a sharp increase of the load on supports and lead to an accident. Thus, more attention should be paid to the advanced fracture. Therefore, mechanical analysis is used to explain the advanced fracture. Results show that the failure of coal pillar being excavated induces a sharp increase in the main roof’s hanging length. Once the hanging length reaches the limit, the advanced fracture takes place. Therefore, the stability of the coal pillar and the hanging length of roof strata are two key factors that may induce an accident. To prevent the a similar supports crushing accident, the partial backfilled technology which partly backfills the abandoned roadway in height and length to maintain the stability of the coal pillar is put forward and put into practice. The field test shows a good effect.

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Yu Dong ◽  
Yucheng Huang ◽  
Jifang Du ◽  
Fei Zhao

In order to explore the stability of overburden rock and the development height of water flowing fractured zone in roadway filling mining, based on the movement and deformation mechanism of overburden rock, the mechanical analysis of overburden stability and failure was carried out, and the mechanical model of main roof rock beam was established, and the ultimate span and limit deflection of rock beam fracture were deduced. Combined with the mechanical model of the main roof fractured rock, the basis for the judgment of overburden failure developing to fractured zone is given in this paper. Taking a coal mine roadway backfill under water-bearing stratum as an example, based on the equivalent mining height, the theoretical calculation and analysis are carried out on the stability of overburden rock and the height of water flowing fractured zone. The reliability of the theoretical analysis is verified compared with the empirical formula and the numerical simulation results. The results showed that the water flowing fractured zone developed to the bottom of no. 7 glutenite, with a height of 32.5 m, slightly less than the calculation result of the empirical formula. The thickness of the waterproof coal pillar was 39.8 m, which was much less than the distance from the aquifer to the coal seam and can be mined safely.


Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (20) ◽  
pp. 5344
Author(s):  
Feng Cui ◽  
Shuai Dong ◽  
Xingping Lai ◽  
Jianqiang Chen ◽  
Chong Jia ◽  
...  

In the inclination direction, the fracture law of a longwall face roof is very important for roadway control. Based on the W1123 working face mining of Kuangou coal mine, the roof structure, stress and energy characteristics of W1123 were studied by using mechanical analysis, model testing and engineering practice. The results show that when the width of W1123 is less than 162 m, the roof forms a rock beam structure in the inclined direction, the floor pressure is lower, the energy and frequency of microseismic (MS) events are at a low level, and the stability of the section coal pillar is better. When the width of W1123 increases to 172 m, the roof breaks along the inclined direction, forming a double-hinged structure, the floor pressure is increased, and the frequency and energy of MS events also increases. The roof gathers elastic energy release, and combined with the MS energy release speed it can be considered that the stability of the section coal pillar is better. As the width of W1123 increases to 184 m, the roof in the inclined direction breaks again, forming a multi-hinged stress arch structure, and the floor pressure increases again. MS high-energy events occur frequently, and are not conducive to the stability of the section coal pillar. Finally, through engineering practice we verified the stability of the section coal pillar when the width of W1123 was 172 m, which provides a basis for determining the width of the working face and section coal pillar under similar conditions.


2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 559-570 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weibing Zhu ◽  
Xiangrui Qi ◽  
Jinfeng Ju ◽  
Jingmin Xu

Abstract Safe and efficient mining of shallow coal seams relies on the understanding and effective control of strata behaviour. Field measurements, theoretical analysis and numerical simulations are presented in this study to investigate the mechanism behind abnormal strata behaviour, such as roof collapse and severe roadway deformation, that occurs in high longwall face-ends under shallow cover. We observed that coal pillars with two sides being mined out become unstable when the cover depth exceeds a certain value. The instability of the coal pillar can alter the fracture line of the overlying strata, triggering a reversed rotation of the ‘curved triangle blocks’ that form after the breakage of the overlying main roof. The revolving blocks apply stress on the roof strata directly above the longwall face-end, resulting in roof collapse. The collapse of both the coal pillars and the roof also leads to the advancement and increase of the overlying abutment pressure, which further causes severe roadway deformation in front of the working face. The strong strata behaviour that occurs in high longwall face-ends with shallow cover is presented in this study and countermeasures are proposed, such as widening or strengthening the coal pillar, or implementing destress blasting. The countermeasures we proposed and the results of our analyses may facilitate the safe mining of shallow coal seams with similar problems in the future, and may improve the safety and efficient working of coal mines.


2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (22) ◽  
pp. 6349
Author(s):  
Jun Yang ◽  
Hongyu Wang ◽  
Yajun Wang ◽  
Binhui Liu ◽  
Shilin Hou ◽  
...  

Non-coal pillar mining with roadway formed automatically (RFANM) is a new mining approach, which demonstrates revolutionary significance because it does not require making roadway before mining and coal pillar retaining. In order to explore the stability of the surrounding rock structure in RFANM, the deformation of the surrounding rock was theoretically analyzed and simulated based on three different fracture positions of the main roof. It was concluded that reasonable control of temporary support strength in roadway is of great importance to control the deformation of the entry. The deformation process of surrounding rock under different fracture positions in RFANM was simulated by using the Universal Discrete Element Code (UDEC). The results of the numerical simulation showed that the main roof was fractured at the solid coal side or gob side; the deformation of the roadway was small. The fracture condition of the main roof at the gob side required a higher effect of roof slitting or temporary support from the roadway. Through drilling and peeping at the retained roadway, it was judged that the main roof was broken inside the coal wall. Field monitoring results revealed that the deformation of the roadway can be effectively controlled.


Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (21) ◽  
pp. 5732
Author(s):  
Peng Li ◽  
Xingping Lai ◽  
Peilin Gong ◽  
Chao Su ◽  
Yonglu Suo

Affected by high ground stress, the surrounding rock control of a roadway is one of the most important factors restricting the utilization of deep resources. Therefore, it is necessary to propose a method to improve the stress environment of the deep-buried roadway and reduce its deformation. The article focuses on the 121,302 machine roadway in Kouzidong coal mine to analyze the large deformations of roadways near goafs (RNGs) in deep coal mines and reveal the mechanisms related to pressure relief via roof cutting. Through physical simulation, overburdened structures and the migration laws of RNGs in deep coal mines are studied, and the overburdened RNGs will eventually have a double short-arm “F”-type suspended roof structure. The superposition movement of the structure is the prime cause for the large deformation of the RNGs considered here. Artificial roof cutting can weaken the superposition effect of the double “F” structure and induce the roof to produce a new fracture. Meanwhile, sliding deformation along the fault line releases greater stress, and the cut roof can better fill the goaf. The stress distribution ratio between goafs and the coal pillar is improved. Here, a mechanical model of key block B’ (KBB’) is considered and the stability criterion of KBB’ is obtained. According to the theoretical calculation here, the stress of a coal pillar could be reduced by 19.14% when KBB’ is cut along the edge of the coal pillar in the 121,302 machine roadway. After engineering verification, the field observation result shows that the deformation of the 121,302 machine roadway is reduced by more than 50% after roof cutting.


2013 ◽  
Vol 753-755 ◽  
pp. 1391-1395
Author(s):  
Jian Guo Hu ◽  
Jie Zhao ◽  
Da Wei Ma

V-shape adapter is one of the most used hollow adapter in submarine-lunched missile, studying on influence of mechanical property of adapter on submarine-launched performance has an important significance. Firstly, mechanical analysis on V-shape adapter is done and the equivalent out-of-plane mechanical property of adapter is obtained. Secondly, the equivalent constitutive model is built and the user subroutine VUMAT is developed based on ABAQUS/Explicit, while the stability and reliability of the calculation results are verified. According to the requirements of adapter performance from submarine-lunched missile, optimization design for adapter is carried out. The results show that the equivalent constitutive model can simplify the simulation of adapter and shorten the engineering time in research, and the optimized adapter can have a good effect on vibration reduction and supporting based on some relevant conditions.


2013 ◽  
Vol 734-737 ◽  
pp. 671-676
Author(s):  
Shi Bo Wu

Aiming at the problems that local roof falls during the roadway driving, similar simulation experiment and numerical analysis experiment is designed to compare and analysis the deformation and failure characteristics in anchorage areas for different supporting forms. The results show that: if the A3 round steelanchoris used to support in the experiment, the rocks loaded 240kg began to appear local caving, the roof loaded 360kg appear fully caving, the ultimate bearing capacity of the roof support structure is achieved, the falling height is 2.4m above the roof. As the distance beyond the bolt anchorage range, the stability of the roof is hardly to maintain. When we choose deformed steel bar bolt, the bearing capacity of supporting structure reach to 624 kg, 73% is increased compared to A3 round steel anchor, and the capacity is greater than the actual load in the overburden; the deformed steel bar bolt make the roof form a complete anchorage structure, increase the bearing capacity of the roof structure.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pan Weidong ◽  
Deng Cang ◽  
Li Boyang ◽  
Zhang Kunming ◽  
Gao Shan

Abstract Unlike general long-wall mining, the roof activity is more intense when long-wall face passes through the abandoned roadway. Technically, the coal pillar between the abandoned roadway and the long-wall face will suddenly fail with a certain critical value of its width, leading to the roof breaks in advance and other production-restricted problems because of the support loss, which will be a great threat to underground mining activities. In order to guarantee a safe mining condition, therefore, it is greatly necessary to uncover how the roof breaks in advance and how to cope with it. From the stability maintaining of the key block perspective, this paper took for research that the 12404-1 long-wall face of Wulanmulun coal mine, China. The critical value of the coal pillar’s width was determined to be about 5m by theoretical analysis, likely, the appropriate support force of the abandoned roadway’s roof is about 4020KN per meter. Meanwhile, a numerical simulation method was adopted to study the ground pressure when the long-wall face passing through the abandoned roadway. Correspondingly, a compound supporting technology involving the roof presplit technique, anchor cable supporting and pumping pillar supporting were proposed for the roof of the abandoned roadway, and it practically worked well.


2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 163-176
Author(s):  
Penghua Han ◽  
Cun Zhang ◽  
Zhaopeng Ren ◽  
Xiang He ◽  
Sheng Jia

Abstract The advance speed of a longwall face is an essential factor affecting the mining pressure and overburden movement, and an effective approach for choosing a reasonable advance speed to realise coal mine safety and efficient production is needed. To clarify the influence of advance speed on the overburden movement law of a fully mechanised longwall face, a time-space subsidence model of overburden movement is established by the continuous medium analysis method. The movement law of overburden in terms of the advance speed is obtained, and mining stress characteristics at different advance speeds are reasonably explained. The theoretical results of this model are further verified by a physical simulation experiment. The results support the following conclusions. (i) With increasing advance speed of the longwall face, the first (periodic) rupture interval of the main roof and the key stratum increase, while the subsidence of the roof, the fracture angle and the rotation angle of the roof decrease. (ii) With increasing advance speed, the roof displacement range decreases gradually, and the influence range of the advance speed on the roof subsidence is 75 m behind the longwall face. (iii) An increase in the advance speed of the longwall face from 4.89 to 15.23 m/d (daily advancing of the longwall face) results in a 3.28% increase in the impact load caused by the sliding instability of the fractured rock of the main roof and a 5.79% decrease in the additional load caused by the rotation of the main roof, ultimately resulting in a 9.63% increase in the average dynamic load coefficient of the support. The roof subsidence model based on advance speed is proposed to provide theoretical support for rational mining design and mining-pressure-control early warning for a fully mechanised longwall face.


2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 335-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cars Hommes ◽  
Tatiana Kiseleva ◽  
Yuri Kuznetsov ◽  
Miroslav Verbic

We investigate the effects of memory on the stability of evolutionary selection dynamics based on a multinomial logit model in a simple asset pricing model with heterogeneous beliefs. Whether memory is stabilizing or destabilizing depends in general on three key factors: (1) whether or not the weights on past observations are normalized; (2) the ecology or composition of forecasting rules, in particular the average trend extrapolation factor and the spread or diversity in biased forecasts; and (3) whether or not costs for information gathering of economic fundamentals have to be incurred.


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