scholarly journals Roof Cutting Parameters Design for Gob-Side Entry in Deep Coal Mine: A Case Study

Energies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 2032 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deyuan Fan ◽  
Xuesheng Liu ◽  
Yunliang Tan ◽  
Shilin Song ◽  
Qingheng Gu ◽  
...  

Roof cutting is an effective technique for controlling the deformation and failure of the surrounding rock in deep gob-side entry. The determination of the roof cutting parameters has become a popular research subject. Initially, two mechanical models are established for the non-roof-cutting and roof-cutting of gob-side entry in deep mining conditions. On this basis, the necessity and significance of roof cutting is revealed by analysing the stress and displacement of roadside prop. The Universal Distinct Element Code numerical simulation model is established to determine the key roof-cutting parameters (cutting angle and cutting height) according to the on-site situation of No. 2415 headentry of the Suncun coal mine, China. The numerical simulation results show that with the cutting angle and height increase, the vertical stress and horizontal displacement of the coal wall first increase and then decrease, as in the case of the vertical stress and displacement of roadside prop. Therefore, the optimum roof cutting parameters are determined as a cutting angle of 70° and cutting height of 8 m. Finally, a field application was performed at the No. 2415 headentry of the Suncun coal mine. In situ investigations show that after 10 m lagged the working face, the stress and displacement of roadside prop are obviously reduced with the hanging roof smoothly cut down, and they are stable at 19 MPa and 145 mm at 32 m behind the working face, respectively. This indicates that the stability of the surrounding rock was effectively controlled. This research demonstrates that the key parameters determined through a numerical simulation satisfactorily meet the production requirements and provide a reference for ensuring safe production in deep mining conditions.

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Bing-Jun Sun ◽  
Xin-Zhu Hua ◽  
Yan Zhang ◽  
Jiadi Yin ◽  
Kai He ◽  
...  

The mechanical model of the basic roof fracture structure is established on the basis of key block theory to study the roof breaking mechanism of gob-side entry retaining under roof cutting and pressure relief, and the analytical formula of roof support resistance is derived when the key block of the basic roof is stable. The influence of roof cutting angle and cutting height on roof support resistance is also analyzed. Determining the cutting seam parameters of the retained roadway roof is necessary to identify the support resistance of the roadway roof due to the correlation between the roof cutting parameters and the support resistance. Taking the II 632 haulage drift of the Hengyuan coal mine as the engineering background, FLAC3D numerical simulation is used in this paper to analyze the influence of different roof cutting angles and cutting heights on the surrounding rock structure evolution of retained roadways. Results show that the roof cutting angle and cutting height respond to the support resistance of the retained roadway roof, and the support resistance required by the roof increases with the roof cutting angle and cutting height. This condition ensures that the side roof of the gob can be cut off smoothly, and the support resistance required by the roof of retained roadways is within a reasonable range. Through theoretical and numerical simulation analysis, the reasonable roof cutting height of II 632 haulage drift is 8 m and the roof cutting angle is 15°. The theoretical analysis and numerical simulation results reveal that the required support resistance to maintain the stability of the roadway roof is 0.38 MPa. The supporting scheme of the roof of the II 632 haulage drift in the Hengyuan coal mine is then designed. Finally, the field industrial test is used for verification. The borehole imaging results show that the overall line of the retained roadway roof is small based on the description of field monitoring results. The deformation of the surrounding rock surface of the retained roadway is less than 100 mm, and the roadway is 40 m from the lagging working face. The deformation rate of surrounding rock decreases with the increase in distance from the working face. The integrity of the retained roadway roof is good, and the deformation of the surrounding rock is effectively controlled.


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.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Xiaojie Yang ◽  
Chenkang Liu ◽  
Honglei Sun ◽  
Songlin Yue ◽  
Yuguo Ji ◽  
...  

Affected by the mining activities of the working face, the surrounding rock of the roadway is easily deformed and destroyed. For deep buried roadways, the deformation and destruction of the surrounding rock is particularly prominent. Under the influence of in situ stress fluctuation, 3−1103 tailgate of the Hongqinghe coal mine was in a complex stress environment with a maximum stress exceeding 20 MPa. Affected by mining stress, the roadway behind the working face was seriously deformed. In order to alleviate the deformation of the roadway, directional blasting and cutting measures for the 3−1103 tailgate were adopted in this paper. The mechanism of crack propagation in single-row to three-hole directional blasting was revealed by numerical simulation. The blasted rock was divided into three regions according to the crack condition. The numerical analysis of the cutting heights of 0 m, 10 m, 12 m, and 14 m, respectively, showed the stress peaks of different cutting heights and the deformation law of the surrounding rock. The pressure relief effect was the best at 14 m cutting height. At this time, the peak stress was 39 MPa with the smallest roadway deformation. Based on numerical simulation and theoretical analysis results, engineering tests were carried out. Field monitoring showed that the deformation of the roadway was inversely proportional to the roof cutting height. The higher the cutting height is, the more preferential the roadway is to reach the stable state. It can be concluded that directional blasting can change the surrounding rock structure, control the deformation of the roadway, and play a role in pressure relief. It provides a new measure to control roadway deformation.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Chen Tian ◽  
Anhu Wang ◽  
Yingjie Liu ◽  
Tinggui Jia

A mechanical model of a hard roof was built to analyze the pressure relief roof cutting (RCPR) process for gob-side entry retaining (GER) and identify the critical stage of roadway stability control during RCPR. Based on the mechanical analysis of key parameters of automatic roadway with RCPR, the FLAC3D software was adopted to conduct a numerical simulation to investigate the influence law of height and angle of RCPR, to analyze the trend of variations in the vertical displacement of roadway surrounding rock stress and the roof under different conditions, and to verify that the optimal roof cutting height and seam cutting angle of the 12201 working face of Halagou Coal mine are 6 m and 20°, respectively. The effect of automatic roadway with RCPR has been well implemented through conducting the bidirectional cumulative blasting test on site. To impose effective roadway surrounding rock controlling measures on Halagou Coal mine in RCPR of hard, coal-bearing roof structures at a shallow mining depth, constant resistance large deformation anchor cables, in combination with a single hydraulic prop, joist steel 11#, and steel mesh reinforcement, could provide active surrounding rock support. In addition to the active support, surrounding rock control could be strengthened using grouting bolts. Based on the result, the stress in the roadway coal side and the vertical displacement of the roof can be reduced through increasing the roof cutting height, contributing to the stability of the roadway. Increasing of the roof cutting angle will lead to the increasing of stress in the coal side of the roadway and the increasing of roof displacement with a maximum angle of 20°. Meanwhile, the peak of stress concentrating on both sides of the extreme angle is decreased. Thus, increasing the cutting roof angle at random can be unfavorable to the management of roadway roof. To develop RCPR GER, roadway surrounding rock requires greater support when the mine face passes through a cutting slot. After industrial trials, these measures are proved to be effective in controlling surrounding rock movement and developing GER.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Chengjia Wu ◽  
Tao Qin ◽  
Lei Wang ◽  
Zhi Liu

In order to explore the stability control of surrounding rock in the process of deep mining, comparative analysis of stress, deformation, and fracture characteristics of surrounding rock of deep and shallow mining roadway in dongbaotou coal mine, laboratory experiments, field measurement, numerical simulation, and field industrial experiments were adopted to put forward the control plan of the surrounding rock in deep roadway, which were verified by field industrial experiments. The results of laboratory experiments and field experiments show that the mechanical properties of deep roadway surrounding rock of Dongbaowei Coal Mine are significantly lower than those of the shadow roadway, mainly due to the development of joints and fractures of the overlying strata in the deep stope, serious impact on the disturbance of the roadway which has been made by the strong pressure of the stope, and reduced crushing strength of surrounding rock. Through comparative analysis of deep roadway support plan carried out by numerical simulation, the support scheme suitable for Dongbaowei Coal Mine is put forward, which is applied in the field. Field industrial experiments show that after the optimization of support parameters, the deformation of surrounding rock of roadway is well controlled. The displacement of surrounding rock of roadway is basically stable after 10∼15 days. The support of surrounding rock of roadway has good effect, which achieves the goal of stability control of deep roadway surrounding rock.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Wenpeng Su ◽  
Boyang Zheng ◽  
Pengfei Jiang

In order to solve the problems of complicated advanced support process, high labor intensity, affecting the rapid advance of working face and the destruction of roof bolt (cable) by advance single hydraulic prop in ultra kilometer deep mine roadway, the deformation characteristics of roadway surrounding rock is analyzed. Taking the 27304 working face of Wanglou coal mine as the engineering background, numerical simulation, field monitoring, and theoretical calculation were used to analyze the deformation characteristics of roadway surrounding rock within the advanced influence range of 27304 working face. This paper puts forward the active advance support technology scheme, in which grouting anchor cable replaces the existing single hydraulic prop in the advance influence range of the working face in the ultra-kilometer deep mine, and observes and analyzes the deformation and failure characteristics of the surrounding rock of the working face advance roadway. The numerical simulation results show that in the advanced influence range of deep roadway, grouting anchor cable was used to replace the previous single hydraulic prop, and the vertical stress at both ends of the working face decreased by 15 MPa, with a decrease rate of 33.3%; the displacement of roadway roof, floor, and two sides decreased by 10 mm, 55 mm, and 20 mm, with a decrease rate of 40%, 68.75%, and 47.6%, respectively. The field monitoring results show that the roof separation is obviously improved after using grouting anchor cable as the active advance support scheme. It solves the problem of safe and efficient production faced by the ultra-kilometer deep shaft in Wanglou coal mine and provides theoretical and technical support for unmanned double roadway advance support under the condition of safe and efficient mining.


2013 ◽  
Vol 295-298 ◽  
pp. 2980-2984
Author(s):  
Xiang Qian Wang ◽  
Da Fa Yin ◽  
Zhao Ning Gao ◽  
Qi Feng Zhao

Based on the geological conditions of 6# coal seam and 8# coal seam in Xieqiao Coal Mine, to determine reasonable entry layout of lower seam in multi-seam mining, alternate internal entry layout, alternate exterior entry layout and overlapping entry layout were put forward and simulated by FLAC3D. Then stress distribution and displacement characteristics of surrounding rock were analyzed in the three ways of entry layout, leading to the conclusion that alternate internal entry layout is a better choice for multi-seam mining, for which makes the entry located in stress reduce zone and reduces the influence of abutment pressure of upper coal seam mining to a certain extent,. And the mining practice of Xieqiao Coal Mine tested the results, which will offer a beneficial reference for entry layout with similar geological conditions in multi-seam mining.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Wenyu Lv ◽  
Kai Guo ◽  
Jianhao Yu ◽  
Xufeng Du ◽  
Kun Feng

The movement of the overlying strata in steeply dipping coal seams is complex, and the deformation of roof rock beam is obvious. In general, the backfill mining method can improve the stability of the surrounding rock effectively. In this study, the 645 working face of the tested mine is used as a prototype to establish the mechanical model of the inclined roof beam using the sloping flexible shield support backfilling method in a steeply dipping coal seam, and the deflection equation is derived to obtain the roof damage structure and the maximum deflection position of the roof beam. Finally, numerical simulation and physical similarity simulation experiments are carried out to study the stability of the surrounding rock structure under backfilling mining in steeply dipping coal seams. The results show the following: (1) With the support of the gangue filling body, the inclined roof beam has smaller roof subsidence, and the maximum deflection position moves to the upper part of working face. (2) With the increase of the stope height, the stress and displacement field of the surrounding rock using the backfilling method show an asymmetrical distribution, the movement, deformation, and failure increase slowly, and the increase of the strain is relatively stable. Compared with the caving method, the range and degree of the surrounding rock disturbed by the mining stress are lower. The results of numerical simulation and physical similarity simulation experiment are generally consistent with the theoretically derived results. Overall, this study can provide theoretical basis for the safe and efficient production of steeply dipping coal seams.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jucai Chang ◽  
Kai He ◽  
Zhiqiang Yin ◽  
Wanfeng Li ◽  
Shihui Li ◽  
...  

In view of the influence of mining stress on the stability of the surrounding rock of inclined roof mining roadways in deep mines, the surrounding rock stability index is defined and solved based on the rock strength criterion and the stress distribution. The mining roadway of the 17102(3) working face of the Pansan Coal Mine is used as the engineering background and example. The surrounding rock’ stabilities under the conditions of no support and bolt support are analyzed according to the surrounding rock’s stability index and the deformation data. The results show that the areas of low wall and high wall instability are 1.68 m2 and 2.12 m2, respectively, and the low wall is more stable than the high wall; the areas of the roof and floor instability are 0.33 m2 and 0.35 m2, respectively, and the roof and floor are more stable than the two sides. During mining, the area of instability greatly increases at first, then decreases to 0, and reaches a maximum value at the peak of the abutment pressure. The stability of the surrounding rock decreases first and then increases. Compared with the end anchoring bolt support, the full-length anchoring bolt support reduces the area of instability to a greater extent, and the full-length anchoring bolt support effect is better. The surrounding rock in the end anchoring zone and the full-length anchoring zone began to deform significantly at 200 m and 150 m from the working face, respectively. This indicates that the control effect of the full-length anchoring bolt support is better and verifies the rationality of the surrounding rock stability index to describe the instability characteristics. This research method can provide a theoretical reference for analysis of the stability characteristics and support design of different cross-section roadways.


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