scholarly journals A Case Study on Large Deformation Failure Mechanism and Control Techniques for Soft Rock Roadways in Tectonic Stress Areas

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (13) ◽  
pp. 3510 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xue ◽  
Gu ◽  
Fang ◽  
Wei
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Simulation ◽  
Large Deformation ◽  
Failure Mechanism ◽  
Support System ◽  
Soft Rock ◽  
Tectonic Stress ◽  
Geological Conditions ◽  
Soft Rock Roadway ◽  
Rock Roadway

Large deformation and failure of soft rock are pressing problems in the mining practice. This paper provides a case study on failure mechanisms and support approaches for a water-rich soft rock roadway in tectonic stress areas of the Wangzhuang coal mine, China. Mechanic properties of rock mass related to the roadway are calibrated via a geological strength index method (GSI), based on which a corresponding numerical simulation model is established in the Universal Discrete Element Code (UDEC) software. The failure mechanism of the roadway under water-saturating and weathering conditions is revealed by field tests and numerical simulation. It is found that the stress evolution and crack development are affected by weathering and horizontal tectonic stresses. The roadway roof and floor suffer from high stress concentration and continuous cracking, and are consequently seen with rock failure, strength weakening, and pressure relief. Unfortunately, the current support system fails to restrain rock weathering and strength weakening, and the roadway is found with serious floor heave, roof subsidence, and large asymmetric deformation. Accordingly, a new combined support system of “bolt–cable–mesh–shotcrete + grouting” is proposed. Moreover, numerical simulation and field testing are conducted to validate the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed approach, the results of which demonstrate the capacity of the proposed new support method to perfectly control the surrounding rock. Findings of this research can provide valuable references for support engineering in the soft rock roadway under analogous geological conditions.

A case study on large deformation failure mechanism of deep soft rock roadway in Xin'An coal mine, China

2017 ◽  
Vol 217 ◽  
pp. 89-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheng-Qi Yang ◽  
Miao Chen ◽  
Hong-Wen Jing ◽  
Kun-Fu Chen ◽  
Bo Meng
Keyword(s):  
Large Deformation ◽  
Failure Mechanism ◽  
Coal Mine ◽  
Soft Rock ◽  
Soft Rock Roadway ◽  
Rock Roadway

scholarly journals Failure Mechanism Analysis and Support Design for Deep Composite Soft Rock Roadway: A Case Study of the Yangcheng Coal Mine in China

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bangyou Jiang ◽  
Lianguo Wang ◽  
Yinlong Lu ◽  
Shitan Gu ◽  
Xiaokang Sun
Keyword(s):  
Failure Mechanism ◽  
Coal Mine ◽  
Failure Mechanisms ◽  
Soft Rock ◽  
Deformation Monitoring ◽  
Surrounding Rock ◽  
Support Design ◽  
Soft Rock Roadway ◽  
Rock Roadway

This paper presented a case study of the failure mechanisms and support design for deep composite soft rock roadway in the Yangcheng Coal Mine of China. Many experiments and field tests were performed to reveal the failure mechanisms of the roadway. It was found that the surrounding rock of the roadway was HJS complex soft rock that was characterized by poor rock quality, widespread development of joint fissures, and an unstable creep property. The major horizontal stress, which was almost perpendicular to the roadway, was 1.59 times larger than the vertical stress. The weak surrounding rock and high tectonic stress were the main internal causes of roadway instabilities, and the inadequate support was the external cause. Based on the failure mechanism, a new support design was proposed that consisted of bolting, cable, metal mesh, shotcrete, and grouting. A field experiment using the new design was performed in a roadway section approximately 100 m long. Detailed deformation monitoring was conducted in the experimental roadway sections and sections of the previous roadway. The monitoring results showed that deformations of the roadway with the new support design were reduced by 85–90% compared with those of the old design. This successful case provides an important reference for similar soft rock roadway projects.

scholarly journals A Case Study of Optimization and Application of Soft-Rock Roadway Support in Xiaokang Coal Mine, China

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Shuai Guo ◽  
Xun-Guo Zhu ◽  
Xun Liu ◽  
Hong-Fei Duan
Keyword(s):  
Soft Rock ◽  
Surrounding Rock ◽  
Geological Conditions ◽  
Floor Heave ◽  
Roadway Support ◽  
Soft Rock Roadway ◽  
Surrounding Rock Stress ◽  
Rock Roadway

The roadway of S2S2 fully mechanized caving face (FMCF) in Xiaokang Coal Mine is one of the most typical deep-buried soft-rock roadways in China and had been repaired several times. In order to figure out the failure reasons of the original roadway support, the geological conditions were investigated, the surrounding rock stress was monitored, the rib displacement, roof separation, and floor heave were in situ measured, and the performance of the U-shaped steel support was simulated. The above analysis results indicated that the support failure was mainly caused by (1) the unreasonable arch roadway section, (2) the high and complex surrounding rock stress, (3) the failure control of the floor heave, and (4) the inadequate self-supporting capacity of the surrounding rock. For optimizing, the roadway section was changed to circle and a new full-section combined support system of “belt-cable-mesh-shotcrete and U-shaped steel-filling behind the support” was adopted, which could specifically control the floor heave, allow the roadway deformation in control, and improve the self-supporting ability and stress field of the surrounding rock. To determine the support parameters, the selected U-shaped steel support was verified by simulation, and various bolt-cable support schemes were simulated and compared. Finally, such an optimized support scheme was applied in the roadway of the next replacement FMCF. The in situ monitoring showed that the rib-to-rib convergence and roof-to-floor convergence were both controlled within 600 mm, which indicated that the roadway was effectively controlled. This case study has important reference value and guiding function for the optimal design of the soft-rock roadway support with similar geological conditions.

scholarly journals Failure Mechanism and Optimization of Arch-Bolt Composite Support for Underground Mining Tunnel

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuchun Mei ◽  
Weiteng Li ◽  
Ning Yang ◽  
Gang Wang ◽  
Tingchun Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Simulation ◽  
Failure Mechanism ◽  
Underground Mining ◽  
Failure Process ◽  
Pressure Coefficient ◽  
High Stress ◽  
Soft Rock ◽  
Composite Support ◽  
Soft Rock Roadway ◽  
Rock Roadway

Numerical simulation tests were performed on the arch-bolt combined supported mining tunnel through an improved numerical simulation approach. The typical soft rock roadway was took as the background, and the influencing factors such as ground stress level, lateral pressure coefficient, and support type and parameters were considered. The failure mechanism of a semicircular roadway with two straight walls was analyzed; results showed that the arch legs’ inward bending deformation and the arch-rock separation are the breakthrough of the global failure of the supporting system, and rock bolts breakage promoted the failure process. The effects of different controlling measures were analyzed including enlarging the bolt diameter, replacing the conventional bolts with energy-absorbing bolts, and setting arch locking bolts on the arch legs. The field test of the concrete-filled steel tube (CFST) arch-bolt composite support scheme was carried out in a high-stress soft rock roadway, and the results indicate the reliability of the main conclusions.

scholarly journals Constant-Resistance, Rigid, and Flexible Coupling Support Technology for Soft Rock Entrances in Deep Coal Mines:A Case Study in China

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Yong Zhang ◽  
Chengwei Zhao ◽  
Ming Jiang ◽  
Jiaxuan Zhang ◽  
Chen Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Large Deformation ◽  
Support System ◽  
Soft Rock ◽  
High Strength ◽  
Surrounding Rock ◽  
Constant Resistance ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Control Principle ◽  
Soft Rock Roadway ◽  
Rock Roadway

The stability control of a soft rock roadway is a crucial problem for sustainable utilization of limited coal resources in deep mining practices. To solve it, the soft rock types and failure mechanism of −890 entrance surrounding rock have been analyzed, taking Daqiang Coal Mine of China as an engineering example. The analysis shows that the damage to the surrounding rock was characterized by asymmetry, large deformation, severe damage, and extended durations. The surrounding rock can be divided into high-stress-jointed-strong expansion soft rock based on S-M scanning and mineral analysis. Numerical simulation is used to reproduce the failure process of the original supporting system and analyze the deformation of the surrounding rock, range of plastic zone, and distribution of the stress field. The failure mechanism is thus defined for a deep soft rock roadway. Combined with the above studies, the deformation mechanics of the surrounding rock is summarized as type IABIIABIIIABC. The stability transformation mechanism of the surrounding rock is proposed, based on which the control principle of deformation stability of a surrounding rock is formed. According to the control principle, “high strength support controls the surrounding rock deformation. The large deformation of the flexible support system releases the accumulated energy to the surrounding rock, and long-term deformation of the surrounding rock is controlled by high strength truss support.” Meanwhile, the constant-resistance, rigid, and flexible coupling (CRRFC) support system is proposed. The numerical analysis demonstrated that the CRRFC support system can effectively reinforce the shallow surrounding rock and improve the bearing capacity. Simultaneously, the development of the surrounding rock malignant plastic zone is effectively controlled. The application results show that the large deformation of the roadway can be effectively controlled by the CRRFC support system, which provides applications for similar engineering.

Experimental Study on Failure Mechanism of Soft Rock Roadway in Yangcheng Coal

2014 ◽  
Vol 675-677 ◽  
pp. 1381-1384
Author(s):  
Rong Chao Wang ◽  
Yun Liang Tan
Keyword(s):  
Failure Mechanism ◽  
Coal Mine ◽  
Soft Rock ◽  
Drill Hole ◽  
Deformation Analysis ◽  
Geological Conditions ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
Seam Mining ◽  
Soft Rock Roadway ◽  
Rock Roadway

For the mutual disturbance several roadway excavation, it is difficult to support the roadway and damage is more serious, the original supporting scheme has been out of action, so the article by using the method of field test, theoretical analysis and laboratory experiments on the Yangcheng coal mine soft rock roadway destruction mechanism of in-depth study, based on the theoretical and experimental data measured results were analyzed, and according to the deformation analysis of Yangcheng mine lane, the failure characteristics and causes of roadway, also according to each drill hole core lithology and laboratory test, the basic physical and mechanical parameters, provides a reliable data of Yangcheng coal mine soft rock roadway failure mechanism, for similar geological conditions of coal seam mining also provides practical guidance significance.

Study on Stability for Intersection of Deep Soft Rock Roadway

2011 ◽  
Vol 243-249 ◽  
pp. 2666-2669
Author(s):  
Zhan Jin Li ◽  
Yang Zhang ◽  
Xue Li Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Coal Mine ◽  
Soft Rock ◽  
Intersection Problem ◽  
The Third ◽  
Geological Conditions ◽  
Control Stability ◽  
Soft Rock Roadway ◽  
Crossing Point ◽  
Coupling Support ◽  
Rock Roadway

With the depth increasing continuously, more complicated of geological conditions, will make intersection in deep soft rock roadway is very difficult to support. In order to solve the intersection problem of difficult to support, combined with the third levels of the Fifth Coal Mine of Hemei, the coupling supporting design—anchor-mesh-cable + truss to control stability of crossing point—is proposed. Based software of FLAC3D, simulate the program applicable in deep soft rock roadway intersection. Application results show that the coupling support technology of anchor-mesh-cable + truss can effectively control the deformation of intersection in deep soft rock roadway.

Study on deformation failure mechanism and support technology of deep soft rock roadway

2020 ◽  
Vol 264 ◽  
pp. 105262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guang Li ◽  
Fengshan Ma ◽  
Jie Guo ◽  
Haijun Zhao ◽  
Gang Liu
Keyword(s):  
Failure Mechanism ◽  
Soft Rock ◽  
Soft Rock Roadway ◽  
Rock Roadway
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