Abstract
Foam-cemented paste backfill (FCPB) has become a trend to solve the problem of roof-contacted filling. In order to solve the time-consuming and labor-intensive disadvantages of laboratory uniaxial compressive strength (UCS) tests, a hybrid artificial intelligence model which combines random forest (RF) algorithm and grid search optimizer (GSO) was proposed for FCPB strength prediction. Moreover, the effects of foaming agent on cement hydration and pore structure characteristics were studied. The results showed that GSO can effectively tune the hyper-parameters of the proposed GSO-RF model and the developed model is an efficient and accurate tool to predict the UCS for FCPB. Though the foaming agent will not change the influence trend of cement-tailings ratio, solid content and curing time, the influence degree will be weakened by the foaming agent. The ranking of the relative importance of influencing variables is: cement-tailings ratio > curing time > foaming agent dosage > solid content. In addition, the foaming agent has no significant effect on the hydration of cement. The foaming agent mainly changes the strength by changing the pore structure characteristics (especially the large pore volume). This research can provided some guidance for developing UCS prediction model for FCPB.
Highlights
Cemented paste backfill (CPB) is a mining filling material prepared from dewatered processing tailings, cementitious materials and water [1]–[3]
EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS 1) RESULTS OF uniaxial compressive strength (UCS) TESTS The cement-tailings ratio, solid content, foaming agent dosage, and curing time are the four major factors that affect the strength of the Foam-cemented paste backfill (FCPB)
To better study the influence of these factors on the UCS of FCPB, the control variable method was used for further analysis [23]
Summary
Cemented paste backfill (CPB) is a mining filling material prepared from dewatered processing tailings, cementitious materials (such as cement) and water [1]–[3]. It has many advantages such as the disposal of tailings waste, reduced ore loss and dilution rate, controlled surface subsidence and improved working environment[4]–[10]. A detailed review for CPB has been provided in Ref [11], where the current status and future perspectives were discussed. The associate editor coordinating the review of this manuscript and approving it for publication was Ilaria Boscolo Galazzo. It is necessary to study the backfill that can achieve the purpose of roof contacting
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