scholarly journals Comparative Analysis of Roadway Reinforcement Effects Based on Fluid-Solid Coupling in the Fractured Zone of Water-Rich Fault

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Jihua Zhang ◽  
Yun Dong ◽  
Yadong Chen ◽  
Yang Jiang ◽  
Huasheng Sun ◽  
...  

Water inrush is a common geological disaster during the roadway excavation process in the broken zone of water-rich faults. In this paper, the 15107 mining roadway built by Yuxing coal mine in such a fault zone was used as a case study to determine the water content of the surrounding rocks and a fault zone using the transient electromagnetic method (TEM). Also, the mechanics characteristics of such rocks in both saturated and unsaturated states were analyzed, a computational model for fluid-solid coupling in the water-rich fault fracture zone was established, and the permeability coefficient of the rocks under both shield support and bolt-grouting support was compared, along with analyzing the changes in pore pressure, fissure water velocity, and characteristics of deformation in the surrounding rocks. The numerical simulation results show that the fault range has an influence of about 20 m, which causes the forms of permeability coefficient to change like a hump. The permeability coefficient in the fractured zone is the largest, and the mutation rate at the fault plane is faster. Bolting not only reduces the permeability coefficient of the surrounding rock that is 1/10 of the beam support but also prevents the roof fissure water inrushing the roadway and the surrounding rock of the floor, while also causing the pore-water pressure to decrease, even reduce to zero, in front of the working face and floor. The flow velocity of the fissure water can be decreased by bolting, which can effectively control the deformation of the surrounding rock by 38.7%∼65% compared with the shield support. The practice results show that this method can effectively recover the cracks surrounding the mining roadway and stop gushing water. Concurrently, it successfully controls deformation of the surrounding rocks in the fault zone, thus ensuring stability of the roadway and facilitating safer mining production.

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 3645
Author(s):  
Helin Fu ◽  
Pengtao An ◽  
Long Chen ◽  
Guowen Cheng ◽  
Jie Li ◽  
...  

Affected by the coupling of excavation disturbance and ground stress, the heterogeneity of surrounding rock is very common. Presently, treating the permeability coefficient as a fixed value will reduce the prediction accuracy of the water inflow and the external water pressure of the structure, leading to distortion of the prediction results. Aiming at this problem, this paper calculates and analyzes tunnel water inflow when considering the heterogeneity of permeability coefficient of surrounding rock using a theoretical analysis method, and compares with field data, and verifies the rationality of the formula. The research shows that, when the influence of excavation disturbance and ground stress on the permeability coefficient of surrounding rock is ignored, the calculated value of the external water force of the tunnel structure is too small, and the durability and stability of the tunnel are reduced, which is detrimental to the safety of the structure. Considering the heterogeneity of surrounding rock, the calculation error of water inflow can be reduced from 27.3% to 13.2%, which improves the accuracy of water inflow prediction to a certain extent.


Geofluids ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Qingzhen Guo ◽  
Haijian Su ◽  
Hongwen Jing ◽  
Wenxin Zhu

Water inrush caused by the wetting-drying cycle is a difficult problem in tunnel excavation. To investigate the effect of the wetting-drying cycle on the stability of the tunnel surrounding rock, physical experiments and numerical simulations regarding the process of tunnel excavation with different wetting-drying cycle numbers were performed in this study. The evolutions of stress, displacement, and pore water pressure were analyzed. With the increase in cycle number, the pore water pressure, vertical stress, and top-bottom approach of the tunnel surrounding rock increase gradually. And the increasing process could be divided into three stages: slightly increasing stage, slowly increasing stage, and sharply increasing stage, respectively. The failure process of the surrounding rock under the wetting-drying cycle gradually occurs from the roof to side wall, while the baseplate changes slightly. The simulation results showed that the maximum principal stress in the surrounding rock mass of the tunnel increases, while the minimum principal stress decreases. Furthermore, the displacement of the rock mass decreases gradually with the increasing distance from the tunnel surface. By comparing the simulation results with the experimental results, well consistency is shown. The results in this study can provide helpful references for the safe excavation and scientific design of a tunnel under the wetting-drying cycle.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Tao Yang ◽  
Ji Li ◽  
Longwen Wan ◽  
Sheng Wang

As the working face advances, the overlying aquiclude is subjected to periodic dynamic loads, causing pore water pressure distortion, which provides important forewarning for a water inrush disaster in shallow coal seams. In order to analyze the pore water pressure in an aquiclude and determine the spatial-temporal characteristics of the water inrush, the aquiclude is simplified into a saturated, porous, liquid-solid medium and a viscoelastic dynamic model is created to obtain the analytical solution of the pressure distribution. FLAC3D is used to develop a fluid-solid coupling model and to analyze the characteristics of the pressure change and overburden under different mining intensities. This study on pore water pressure in an aquiclude and the determination of the spatial-temporal characteristics of the water inrush provides a foundation for developing early-warning systems for roof water inrush.


2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ling Zeng ◽  
Jie Liu ◽  
Jun-hui Zhang ◽  
Han-bing Bian ◽  
Wei-hua Lu

The SEEP/W module of finite element software GEO-slope is used to analyze the effects of fracture depth, permeability coefficient ratio, fracture angle, and fracture number on the rainwater infiltration process. Moreover, the effect of fracture seepage anisotropy on slope stability is discussed combining with unsaturated seepage theory. The results show that the pore water pressure in the fracture increases rapidly with the rainfall until it changes from negative pressure to positive pressure. The greater the fracture depth is, the greater the pore water pressure in the fracture is, and the greater the infiltration depth at the time of rainfall stopping is. When the permeability coefficient is greater than the rainfall intensity, the permeability coefficient ratio has a great influence on the infiltration process of rainwater. The smaller the fracture angle is, the greater the maximum pore water pressure is in the fracture depth range, and the greater the depth of the positive pore water pressure is. However, with the increase of fracture angle, the infiltration depth decreases, and the range of the surface saturation area of slope increases obviously. With the increase of fracture density, the saturated positive pressure region is connected to each other in the slope. The influence range and the degree of the rainwater on the seepage field are larger and larger. There is a power relation between the saturation area and the fracture number, and also the concentration distribution of long fractures directly forms the large-connected saturated zone and raises groundwater. The range of the saturated zone and variation law of the pore water pressure under fracture seepage are obtained, which provide a reference for the parameter partition assignment of slope stability analysis under fracture seepage.


Processes ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weimin Yang ◽  
Zhongdong Fang ◽  
Hao Wang ◽  
Liping Li ◽  
Shaoshuai Shi ◽  
...  

In order to explore the catastrophic evolution process for karst cave water inrush in large buried depth and high water pressure tunnels, a model test system was developed, and a similar fluid–solid coupled material was found. A model of the catastrophic evolution of water inrush was developed based on the Xiema Tunnel, and the experimental section was simulated using the finite element method. By analyzing the interaction between groundwater and the surrounding rocks during tunnel excavation, the law of occurrence of water inrush disaster was summarized. The water inrush process of a karst cave containing high-pressure water was divided into three stages: the production of a water flowing fracture, the expansion of the water flowing fracture, and the connection of the water flowing fracture. The main cause of water inrush in karst caves is the penetration and weakening of high-pressure water on the surrounding rock. This effect is becoming more and more obvious as tunnel excavation progresses. The numerical simulation results showed that the outburst prevention thickness of the surrounding rock is 4.5 m, and that of the model test result is 5 m. Thus, the results of the two methods are relatively close to each other. This work is important for studying the impact of groundwater on underground engineering, and it is of great significance to avoid water inrush in tunnels.


2011 ◽  
Vol 71-78 ◽  
pp. 3572-3576
Author(s):  
An Nan Jiang ◽  
Peng Li

The uniform zonal disintegration of surrounding rock is the peculiar phenomena of deep and high stress field, researching the inner mechanism and affecting factors has important meaning for guaranteeing the safety of deep engineering. The paper adopted strain soft Mohr-Coulomb model and carried out numerical simulation of surrounding rock fracture and excavation. The simulation states that along with the unloading time accumulation, the shear belt produced from tunnel wall and developed to inner rock. The corresponding shear stress concentration zone also spread to inner rock and destroy zone increasing. The pore water pressure increasing will accelerate the shear belt developing and increase the destroy degree.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jihuan Han ◽  
Jiuqun Zou ◽  
Weihao Yang ◽  
Chenchen Hu

With the increase in shaft depth, the problem of cracks and leakage in single-layer concrete lining in porous water-rich stable rock strata has become increasingly clear, in which case the mechanism of fracturing in shaft lining remains unclear. Considering that the increase in pore water pressure can cause rock mass expansion, this paper presents the concept of hydraulic expansion coefficient. First, a cubic model containing spherical pores is established for studying hydraulic expansion, and the ANSYS numerical simulation, a finite element numerical method, was used for calculating the volume change of the model under the pore water pressure. By means of the multivariate nonlinear regression method, the regression equation of the hydraulic expansion coefficient is obtained. Second, based on the hydraulic expansion effect on the rock mass, an interaction model of pore water pressure–porous rock–shaft lining is established and further solved. Consequently, the mechanism of fracturing in shaft lining caused by high-pressure pore water is revealed. The results show that the hydraulic expansion effect on the surrounding rock increases with its porosity and decreases with its elastic modulus and Poisson’s ratio; the surrounding rock expansion caused by the change in pore water pressure can result in the outer edge of the lining peeling off from the surrounding rock and tensile fracturing at the inner edge. Therefore, the results have a considerable guiding significance for designing shaft lining through porous water-rich rock strata.


2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (9) ◽  
pp. 190790
Author(s):  
Jing Hu ◽  
Haijia Wen ◽  
Qilong Xie ◽  
Binyang Li ◽  
Qu Mo

The presence of weak interlayers and groundwater are common adverse geological conditions in tunnels. To investigate the modes of failure of rock masses surrounding tunnels owing to weak interlayers and groundwater, model tests and numerical simulations were conducted in this study based on two cases, and a model that considers only the weak interlayer was conducted for comparison. Based on the tests, differences between two models in terms of rock pressure, displacement, cracks and strain were analysed. The results reveal that the presence of groundwater has a significant effect on the space–time distribution of stress, displacement and cracks in the surrounding rock. Furthermore, based on the numerical model, the seepage field was analysed in terms of pore water pressure, permeability and the seepage process to understand the joint action of groundwater and weak interlayer on the failure mechanism of tunnels. The results show that the groundwater and interlayer complement each other to induce the failure mode of the surrounding rock. The water accelerates slip in the interlayer and the development of cracks. Conversely, low strength, muddy weak interlayers serve as the channels of water flow, resulting in deformations and cracks at different locations and different failure modes.


2019 ◽  
Vol 118 ◽  
pp. 03008
Author(s):  
Chao Zheng ◽  
Lan Yu ◽  
Jiangyi He ◽  
Fengfeng Yang ◽  
Jufeng Zhang

The analysis found that the coal mining process in the western mining area has the mining loss and disaster effect of the water-rich aquifer of the coal seam roof, which is mainly manifested by the overburden water in the roof. On this basis, the formation and development of the separation water of the roof is proposed, and the mechanism of the water inrush from the layer is revealed. It is found that there is hydrostatic pressure and hydrodynamic pressure in the separated water, under the combined action of bed separation water pressure, the mining-induced fracture and water-isolation layer tension fracture are connected, which causes water inrushing in the coal working face of the mine, and provides a theoretical guarantee for the large-scale development of coal resources in western mining areas.


2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuai Chang ◽  
Zhen Yang ◽  
Changfang Guo ◽  
Zhanyuan Ma ◽  
Xiang Wu

The hydrogeological conditions of coal mines in China are quite complex, and water inrush accidents occur frequently with disastrous consequences during coal extraction. Among them, the risk of coal mining under a river is the highest due to the high water transmissivity and lateral charge capacity of the unconfined aquifer under the river. The danger of mining under a river requires the accurate determination of the developmental mechanisms of the water flowing fractured zone (WFFZ) and the water flow mechanisms influenced by the specific geological conditions of a coal mine. This paper first used the transient electromagnetic (TEM) method to monitor the development of the WFFZ and the water flow mechanisms following the mining of a longwall face under a river. The TEM survey results showed that the middle Jurassic coarse sandstone aquifer and the Klzh unconfined aquifer were the main aquifers of the 8101 longwall panel, and the WFFZ reached the aquifers during the mining process. Due to the limited water reserves in the dry season, the downward flowing water mainly came from the lateral recharge in the aquifer. The water inrush mechanisms of the 8101 longwall panel in Selian No.1 Coal mine were analyzed based on the water flow mechanisms of the aquifer and the numerical simulation results. This provides theoretical and technical guidance to enact safety measures for mining beneath aquifers.


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