scholarly journals The Effect of Selected Factors on Floor Upheaval in Roadways—In Situ Testing

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (21) ◽  
pp. 5686
Author(s):  
Piotr Małkowski ◽  
Łukasz Ostrowski ◽  
Łukasz Bednarek

The phenomenon of the floor upheaval occurs in virtually every type of rock mass and at every depth, accompanying the process of excavation of tunnels and headings. Despite its inconvenience, it is rarely studied because of the complexity of the process and the multiplicity of the factors causing deformations in floor rocks. To quantify the effect of the selected factors on floor upheaval, this article presents an analysis of results of in situ measurements carried out in three coal mine roadways at 15 measuring stations. These measurements were taken over varying periods of time, between 129 and 758 days. Groundwater and fault zones intersecting the excavations were considered as the key factors that affect floor upheavals. Therefore, the measurement bases were located at local faults and sites of water inflow. To compare the results, the stations were also located where the rock mass was not exposed to any factors other than stresses resulting from the depth of the excavation. The excavations were driven in various rocks and were located at different depths from 750 to 1010 m. The analyses of the study results show that the floor upheaval always depends on time and can be described in polynomial form: ufl = a·t2 + b·t + c or by a power function: ufl = a·tb. However, the further regression analyses show that roadway’s floor upheaval can be expressed by a complex form using the key parameters determining the phenomena. In the absence of an impact of geological factors on the stability of the excavation, the floor upheaval depends on floor rocks compressive strength σc and Young’s modulus E: ln(ufl)=a·ln(tσc)−bE−c; in the case of rock mass condition affected by water depends on the rock compressive strength reduction after submerging rock in water σcs 6h: ufl=a·t0.5−bσcs 6hσc+c and in the case of fault depends on the fault’s throw f: ufl=a·t0.8+b·f1.2−c. Statistical analysis has shown that the matching of the models to the measurement data is high and amounts to r = 0.841–0.895. Hence, in general, the analysis shows that the floor upheaval in underground excavation in any geological conditions may grow indefinitely.

2013 ◽  
Vol 807-809 ◽  
pp. 2332-2339
Author(s):  
Qiang Wang ◽  
Jin Yu Chen

One of the difficult issues in underground mining is the ground control of roadway subject to mining induced stresses. As a longwall face advances, the state of initial stresses dramatically changes. Accordingly, lateral abutment pressure forms on the pillar and frontal abutment pressure on the roof and lateral sides of the roadway. These pressures will lead to severe deformation and deterioration of the rock mass surrounding the entries. In this paper, a systemic study on this issue is proposed using the combination of numerical modeling and in-situ monitoring which was carried out at a coal mine in the Lu.An Group, China. The condition of stress redistribution caused by mining-induced stresses and the state of the surrounding rock mass of the roadway situated in front the work face are systematically investigated. Different patterns of support and reinforcement as well as their effects on the stability of the roadway are also presented.


2013 ◽  
Vol 838-841 ◽  
pp. 889-893
Author(s):  
Biao Li ◽  
Feng Dai ◽  
Nu Wen Xu ◽  
Chun Sha

The right bank underground powerhouse of Houziyan hydropower station is a typical deep-buried type with high geostress and complicated geological conditions. To monitor and analyze the stability of surrounding rock mass during continuous excavation of the powerhouse excavation and locate the potential failure zones, an ESG (Engineering Seismology Group) microseismic monitoring system manufactured in Canada was installed in April, 2013. The wave velocity of the monitoring system was determined through fixed blasting tests. And the average location error is the minimum while P-wave velocity is 5700m/s, less than 10m and meeting the system request. By combining the temporal and spatial distribution regularity of microseimic events with field excavation, micro-crack clusters and potential instability zones were identified and delineated. The results will provide a reference for later excavations and supports of the underground powerhouse. Furthermore, a new monitoring method can also be supplied for the stability analysis of surrounding rock mass in deep-buried underground powerhouses.


2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-64
Author(s):  
R. I. Imranov ◽  
E. N. Khmyrova ◽  
O. G. Besimbayeva ◽  
S. P. Olenyuk ◽  
A. Z. Kapasova

The research is aimed at solving problems of assessing underground working stability in complicated mining and geological conditions to increase reliability and safety of mining operations. Analysis of geomechanical processes occurring in a rock mass during extraction of coal seams to determine the stability of mining block roof is the most important task. The performed digital modeling of the rock mass based on the structural logs for K1 seam and the nearest borehole log enabled highly detailed identifying the types of rocks occurred in the seam roof and their strength characteristics, compressive stresses. To determine the stability of a mining block roof, the factor of safety of the rocks was used, which was determined by modeling method using Phase 28.0 and Rockscince software. The carbonaceous argillite parting 0.09–0.12 m thick was taken as the contact of the longwall with the seam roof, and, for completeness of the analysis, the upper high-ash coal member in the seam roof up to 0.7 m thick was used. The modeling findings, presented in the graph of dependence between the safety factor and the distance between the belt heading and air drift, showed that the probability of dome formation in the longwall is high, as the factor of safety of the rocks is less than unity, that indicates the roof instability in the course of the coal seam block extraction. The modeling methods allowed assessing the mine working stability, based on which the measures to improve the reliability and safety of mining operations can be timely developed, and due technical and technological solutions shall be reached.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Jun-hua Xue ◽  
Ke-liang Zhan ◽  
Xuan-hong Du ◽  
Qian Ma

In view of the damage of dynamic stress to the rock surrounding a mine roadway during coal mining, based on the actual geological conditions of Zhuji mine in Huainan, China, a UDEC model was established to study the influences of the thickness and strength of the direct roof above the coal seam and the anchorage effect on the stability of the roadway. The failure mechanism and effect of the dynamic stress on the rock surrounding a mine roadway were revealed. Under dynamic stress, cracks appear near the side of the roadway where the stress is concentrated. These cracks rapidly expand to the two sides of coal and rock mass. At the same time, the coal and rock mass at the top of the roadway fall, and finally, the two sides of coal and rock mass were broken and ejected into the roadway, causing a rock burst. However, when the same dynamic stress is applied to the roadway after supports are installed, there is no large-deformation failure in the roadway, which shows that, under certain conditions, rock bolting can improve the stability and seismic resistance of the surrounding coal and rock mass. Furthermore, by simulating the failure of surrounding rock with different strengths and thicknesses in the immediate roof, it is found that the thinner the roof, the greater the influence of the dynamic stress on the roadway; the stronger the roof is, the more likely the rock burst will occur with greater intensity under the same dynamic stress. A numerical simulation method was used to analyze the factors influencing rock bursting. The results provide a theoretical basis for research into the causes and prevention of rock bursts in deep mining areas.


2018 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-70
Author(s):  
Matej Nagy

Abstract The complicated rock structures and the stability of surrounding rocks of the underground powerhouse are key ground mechanical challenges for hydropower projects. In this paper, an example of contributing self-support capacity of rock mass to evaluate optimised support for long-term usage of structure is given. It describes importance of investigations in the initial in situ stress distribution, rock mechanical and geological properties, engineering rock mass classifications by different methods, numerical modelling, comparison of tools for stability and support analysis and proper stability control for rock excavation and support. The results show that after underground excavations in hard rock, detailed analysis of measures to investigate deformation and self-supporting capacity creation is useful and a cost-saving procedure.


2011 ◽  
Vol 255-260 ◽  
pp. 3775-3779 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuang Suo Yang ◽  
Shao Qing Niu

According to the character that broken rock mass still has higher compressive strength with appropriate support action though it can not bear tensile stress and deformation character of board with different width-thickness ratios, an idea of keeping the stability of both sides of roadway with anchorage body was put forward, namely, the width(height)-thickness ratio of the anchorage body should be higher than that of the sheet. Thus the higher compression and shear strength can play the main role in keeping the roadway stable. A clear and definite theory for bolting support has been put forward, and the determination methods of geometrical and mechanical parameters of bolting support such as bolting strength, bolt length, spacing, interval of row and bolted length etc. have been deduced.


2006 ◽  
Vol 306-308 ◽  
pp. 1455-1460
Author(s):  
Jing Zeng ◽  
Qian Sheng ◽  
Qing Chun Zhou

The power house of Yantan extended hydropower project, with complex geological conditions such as fault f211 below the power house and quartzite on top of it, is a huge underground cavern with large span and high wall. In order to evaluate the stability of the power house surrounded by such complex geological structure, the numerical simulation excavation of power house with different location schemes were studied by the elasto-plastic 2D FEM method. The deformation and evolutive process of the stress with the progress of excavation were analyzed. On the condition ensuring the whole stability of surrounding rock mass, comparison optimization analyses were conducted on the power house location scheme. The rational location scheme was demonstrated. The final analyses results show that: (1) The mechanical properties of quartzite and its relative location to the power house has no obvious influence to the stability of surrounding rock mass.(2) The f211 is the main bad geological structure which affect the stability of power house. (3) The case of moving 10m upward of power house is the most rational scheme for the whole stability of power house. (4) The Supporting measures, which would has an obvious effect in controlling the influence on the stability of surrounding rock mass by weak geological structure, are suggested at the out-crop of f211.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Yongliang He ◽  
Mingshi Gao ◽  
Xu Dong ◽  
Xin Yu

With the increasing mining depth of coal mines, the occurrence of rockburst, especially in mine roadways, is becoming critical as a severe dynamic disaster. This paper explores the stability control of deep mine roadways and solves the contradiction between the support and pressure relief of roadways by studying the use of an internal steel pipe for wall protection and a soft structure for energy absorption during repeated borehole drilling. Numerical simulations are performed to examine the effects of active support technology on the support structure during repeated drilling. Internal steel pipes can effectively prevent the support structure from being damaged. When the soft structure cracks, the energy transmitted from the rockburst to the roadway is significantly reduced. According to the deformation and failure characteristics of the surrounding rock of the 21170 roadway, the combination of anchor active support, hydraulic lifting shed support, and soft structure energy absorption is proposed. An engineering case study shows that the support method can effectively maintain the stability of the surrounding rock and ensure the safe mining of the working face. The proposed control method can provide reference for the prevention and control of rockburst in mine roadways under similar geological conditions.


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