scholarly journals Numerical Simulation of Coal Wall Cutting and Lump Coal Formation in a Fully Mechanized Mining Face

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yong Yuan ◽  
Shengzhi Wang ◽  
Wenmiao Wang ◽  
Cheng Zhu

Abstract It is difficult to accurately calculate the lump coal rate in a fully mechanized mining face. Therefore, a numerical simulation of the coal wall cutting process, which revealed the crack expansion, development, evolution in the coal body and the corresponding lump coal formation mechanism, was performed in PFC. Moreover, a correlation was established between the cutting force and lump coal formation, and a statistical analysis method was proposed to determine the lump coal rate. The following conclusions were drawn from the results. (1) Based on a soft ball model, a coal wall cutting model was established. By setting the roller parameters based on linear bonding and simulating the roller cutting process of the coal body, the coal wall cutting process was effectively simulated, and accurate lump coal rate statistics were provided. (2) Under the cutting stress, the coal body in the working face underwent three stages—microfracture generation, fracture expansion, and fracture penetration—to form lump coal, in which the fracture direction was orthogonal to the cutting pressure chain. Within a certain range from the roller, as the cutting depth of the roller increased, the number of new fractures in the coal body first increased and then stabilized. (3) Under the cutting stress, the fractured coal body was locally compressed, thereby forming a compact core. The formation and destruction of the compact core caused fluctuations in the cutting force. The fluctuation amplitude was positively related to the coal mass. (4) Because the simulation did not consider secondary damage in the coal, the simulated lump coal rate was larger than the actual lump coal rate in the working face; this deviation was mainly concentrated in large lump coal with a diameter greater than 300 mm.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yong Yuan ◽  
Shengzhi Wang ◽  
Wenmiao Wang ◽  
Cheng Zhu

Abstract It is difficult to accurately calculate the lump coal rate in a fully mechanized mining face. Therefore, a numerical simulation of the coal wall cutting process, which revealed the crack expansion, development, evolution in the coal body and the corresponding lump coal formation mechanism, was performed in PFC2D. Moreover, a correlation was established between the cutting force and lump coal formation, and a statistical analysis method was proposed to determine the lump coal rate. The following conclusions were drawn from the results. (1) Based on a soft ball model, a coal wall cutting model was established. By setting the roller parameters based on linear bonding and simulating the roller cutting process of the coal body, the coal wall cutting process was effectively simulated, and accurate lump coal rate statistics were provided. (2) Under the cutting stress, the coal body in the working face underwent three stages—microfracture generation, fracture expansion, and fracture penetration—to form lump coal, in which the fracture direction was orthogonal to the cutting pressure chain. Within a certain range from the roller, as the cutting depth of the roller increased, the number of new fractures in the coal body first increased and then stabilized. (3) Under the cutting stress, the fractured coal body was locally compressed, thereby forming a compact core. The formation and destruction of the compact core caused fluctuations in the cutting force. The fluctuation amplitude was positively related to the coal mass. (4) Because the simulation did not consider secondary damage in the coal, the simulated lump coal rate was larger than the actual lump coal rate in the working face; this deviation was mainly concentrated in large lump coal with a diameter greater than 300 mm.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yong Yuan ◽  
Shengzhi Wang ◽  
Wenmiao Wang ◽  
Cheng Zhu

Abstract It is difficult to accurately calculate the lump coal rate in a fully mechanized mining face. Therefore, a numerical simulation of the coal wall cutting process, which revealed the crack expansion, development, evolution in the coal body and the corresponding lump coal formation mechanism, was performed in PFC. Moreover, a correlation was established between the cutting force and lump coal formation, and a statistical analysis method was proposed to determine the lump coal rate. The following conclusions were drawn from the results. (1) Based on a soft ball model, a coal wall cutting model was established. By setting the roller parameters based on linear bonding and simulating the roller cutting process of the coal body, the coal wall cutting process was effectively simulated, and accurate lump coal rate statistics were provided. (2) Under the cutting stress, the coal body in the working face underwent three stages—microfracture generation, fracture expansion, and fracture penetration—to form lump coal, in which the fracture direction was orthogonal to the cutting pressure chain. Within a certain range from the roller, as the cutting depth of the roller increased, the number of new fractures in the coal body first increased and then stabilized. (3) Under the cutting stress, the fractured coal body was locally compressed, thereby forming a compact core. The formation and destruction of the compact core caused fluctuations in the cutting force. The fluctuation amplitude was positively related to the coal mass. (4) Because the simulation did not consider secondary damage in the coal, the simulated lump coal rate was larger than the actual lump coal rate in the working face; this deviation was mainly concentrated in large lump coal with a diameter greater than 300 mm.


Author(s):  
Yong Yuan ◽  
Shengzhi Wang ◽  
Wenmiao Wang ◽  
Cheng Zhu

AbstractIt is difficult to accurately calculate the lump coal rate in a fully mechanized mining face. Therefore, a numerical simulation of the coal wall cutting process, which revealed the crack expansion, development, evolution in the coal body and the corresponding lump coal formation mechanism, was performed in PFC2D. Moreover, a correlation was established between the cutting force and lump coal formation, and a statistical analysis method was proposed to determine the lump coal rate. The following conclusions are drawn from the results: (1) Based on a soft ball model, a coal wall cutting model is established. By setting the roller parameters based on linear bonding and simulating the roller cutting process of the coal body, the coal wall cutting process is effectively simulated, and accurate lump coal rate statistics are provided. (2) Under the cutting stress, the coal body in the working face underwent three stages—microfracture generation, fracture expansion, and fracture penetration—to form lump coal, in which the fracture direction is orthogonal to the cutting pressure chain. Within a certain range from the roller, as the cutting depth of the roller increased, the number of new fractures in the coal body first increases and then stabilizes. (3) Under the cutting stress, the fractured coal body is locally compressed, thereby forming a compact core. The formation and destruction of the compact core causes fluctuations in the cutting force. The fluctuation amplitude is positively related to the coal mass. (4) Because the simulation does not consider secondary damage in the coal, the simulated lump coal rate is larger than the actual lump coal rate in the working face; this deviation is mainly concentrated in large lump coal with a diameter greater than 300 mm.


2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yalong Li ◽  
Mohanad Ahmed Almalki ◽  
Cheng Li

Abstract For the comprehensive mechanised coal mining technology, the support design of the main withdrawal passage in the working face is an important link to achieve high yield and efficiency. Due to the impact of mining, the roof movement of the withdrawal passage is obvious, the displacement of the coal body will increase significantly, and it is easy to cause roof caving and serious lamination problems, and even lead to collapse accidents, which will affect the normal production of the mine. In this paper, the mining pressure development law of the main withdrawal passage support under the influence of dynamic pressure is designed, the most favourable roof failure form of the withdrawal passage is determined, and the action mechanism and applicable conditions of different mining pressure control measures are studied. The pressure appearance and stress distribution in the final mining stage of fully mechanised coal face are studied by numerical simulation. The deformation and failure characteristics and control measures of roof overburden in the last mining stage of fully mechanised coal face are analysed theoretically. Due to the fact that periodic pressure should be avoided as far as possible after the full-mechanised mining face is connected with the retracement passage, some auxiliary measures such as mining height control and forced roof blasting are put forward on this basis. The relative parameters of the main supporting forms are calculated. The main retracement of a fully mechanised working face in a coal mine channel is put forward to spread the surrounding rock grouting reinforcement, reinforcing roof, and help support and improve the bolt anchoring force, the main design retracement retracement channels in the channel near the return air along the trough for supporting reinforcing surrounding rock control optimisation measures, such as through the numerical simulation analysis, the optimisation measures for coal mine fully mechanised working face of surrounding rock is feasible. Numerical simulation results also show that the surrounding rock control of fully mechanised working face of coal mine design improvements, its main retreat channel under the roof subsidence, cribbing shrank significantly lower, and closer, to better control the deformation of surrounding rock, achieved significant effect, to ensure the safety of coal mine main retracement channel of fully mechanised working face support.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Shoulong Ma

In order to realize the safe and efficient mining of the short-distance isolated island working face under the deep goaf area, the 120502 isolated island working face of Liuzhuang Mine was taken as the engineering background. The method of combining numerical simulation and field measurement were used comprehensively to systematically simulate and study the spatial evolution of the stress field, plastic strain field, and fracture field of coal rock during the mining process. The leading support pressure and the vertical displacement of the roof in the overlapping section and noncoinciding section of the isolated working face and the goaf above were measured on site. The results are that the peak value of the advanced support pressure of the overlap section and the nonoverlapping section is 10 m before the coal wall of the working face; the advanced support pressure of the nonoverlapping section is 33.3 MPa, and the vertical displacement of the roof is 300 mm. The advanced support pressure and the vertical displacement of the roof in the noncoincidence section were significantly higher than those in the coincidence section of 18.2 MPa and 210 mm. The results are consistent with those predicted by numerical simulation. This provides theoretical support for the safe mining of the 120502 isolated island working face in Liuzhuang Mine and, at the same time, provides a reference for the study of similar working faces in other domestic mining areas.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Haifeng Zhou ◽  
Qingxiang Huang ◽  
Yingjie Liu ◽  
Yanpeng He

To study the problems of dynamic load pressure and frame pressure caused by the concentration of stress by coal extraction pillars during the mechanized short-distance mining of goaves in shallow coal seams, a frame pressure accident, in the Shendong Shigetai Coal Mine, during the overlying of a fully mechanized mining goaf is taken as a research example. By applying the field measurement, theoretical analysis, and numerical simulation methods, we throughly analysed the working face coal pillar, got the regular pattern of fully mechanized overburden pressure, summarized a pillar of fully mechanized working face in the overburden strata movement regularity and development characteristics, analyzed the reason and mechanism of broken coal pillar, and put forward the corresponding prevention measures and management method. The results show that when the fully mechanized mining face enters the goaf by about 3 m, the pressure arches of the lower coal face and the upper goaf arising from the extracted coal overlap. When the vertical stress is greater than the supporting force of the hydraulic support and the coal wall, a roof ejection accident may occur.


Author(s):  
Weilong Niu ◽  
Rong Mo ◽  
Huibin Sun ◽  
Balachander Gnanasekaran ◽  
Yihui Zhu ◽  
...  

The saw-tooth chip formation is one of the main machining characteristics in cutting of titanium alloys. The numerical simulation of saw-tooth chip formation, however, is still not accurate, since most of these numerical simulation models are based on traditional finite element method, which have difficulties in handling extremely large deformation that always occurs in the cutting process. Furthermore, these models adopt the Johnson–Cook damage constitutive law that is implemented in commercial codes such as ABAQUS® and LS-DYNA® to describe the dynamic mechanical properties of material, but Johnson–Cook damage constitutive law cannot account for the material of behavior due to strain softening and the dynamic recrystallization mechanism that occurs in the cutting process of Ti–6Al–4. Therefore, this work introduces a material constitutive model named hyperbolic tangent (TANH) and an improved smooth particle hydrodynamics method, and then develops an improved cutting model for Ti–6Al–4V titanium alloy through our in-house code to predict saw-tooth chip morphology and cutting forces. When compared to the experiments and Johnson–Cook damage model, the improved cutting model better explains and predicts the shear localized saw-tooth chip deformation as well as cutting forces.


2011 ◽  
Vol 243-249 ◽  
pp. 2596-2600
Author(s):  
Xiao Li Du ◽  
Hong Wei Song ◽  
Jie Chen

Based on numerical simulation of computing Software ANSYS, the curve of arching coefficient variation of pressure arch due to actual mining was analyzed aiming to a special mining face, the law of stress transfer and change in surrounding rock was discussed, and the evolving features and characteristics of pressure arch was obtained. The analysis and discussion show the following facts: Arch body will become thicker and stress in the arch body increases with working face’s driving distance increasing; the morphology of pressure arch transits from ellipsoid with long axis in the vertical direction to ellipsoid with long axis in the horizontal direction along the trend of working face; along the tendency of working face, the morphology of pressure arch is a ellipsoid with long axis in the vertical direction.


2015 ◽  
Vol 1094 ◽  
pp. 410-414
Author(s):  
Quan Ming Liu

Using numerical simulation method,fully mechanized top coal’s caving property of Tang gong ta coal mine was studied.The results show at primary mining period of fully mechanized working face, there were stress concentration regions at the front and rear of coal wall,but it was not distinct in the front and top coal’s caving property was not ideal.When it advanced to 84m of the working face,there would be obvious peak stress at the front and rear of coal wall. It accelerated top coal’s caving.When it advanced to 140m of the working face,top coal was caved with coal mining.Finally it was proved on the scene. The results of the study in fully mechanized mining’s safety and efficiency has some guiding role.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Jiaxin Dang ◽  
Min Tu ◽  
Xiangyang Zhang ◽  
Qingwei Bu

The conditions of the hard roof in my country vary greatly, ranging from a few meters to tens of meters or even hundreds of meters in thickness. The coal reserves under the hard roof account for about one-third of the total reserves. At present, nearly 40% of fully mechanized mining faces that belong to the hard roof working face has the problem of mining in the hard roof working face. This has a serious impact on the load-bearing stability of the fully mechanized support, and it is urgent to solve the problem of strong underground pressure dynamic disaster under the condition of the hard roof. Based on the research background of 11129 working face in Zhangji Coal Mine in Huainan, this paper constructs a mechanical model of the interaction between the cantilever beam of the hard roof of the stope and the support and then the force distribution equation of the bearing capacity of the supports at different positions of the roof during the periodical rotation of the working face is obtained, which is combined with numerical simulation and engineering site to verify. The research results show that the bearing stability of the support is significantly affected by factors such as the buried depth H, the roof elastic modulus E, the roof thickness h, and the roof cantilever length l0, but most of the influencing factors belong to the geological occurrence conditions of the coal seam itself. Presplit blasting of the roof in advance can effectively destroy the integrity of the roof itself and reduce the periodic breaking distance, thereby improving the apparent environment of roof rock pressure and reducing the force on the working face support. According to the specific geological environment of the 11129 working face, the cutting plan of the cut hole is given out, along the groove 0∼200 and 200∼700 m of the concrete presplitting blasting. The stent force of the top-cutting section fluctuates in the range of 3360.8–4347.9 kN in the range of control top distance (5275∼6175 mm). The load-bearing pressure of the stent before top-cutting is about 1.8 times of that after top-cutting. The pressure distribution of the hydraulic support in the numerical simulation stope is approximately “Λ” in the middle and the low on the two sides. The simulated value is slightly smaller than the theoretical calculation value. The reason is that the goaf is backfilled during the simulation process, and the roof has a certain ability to bear the load. Real-time understanding of the “roof-support” mechanical relationship can effectively ensure the safe and efficient mining of the 11129 working face and also provide experience for the subsequent mining of group B coal in the later period.


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