Abstract
Ground fissures are generated during the coal mining process due to overlying strata migration, which provides gas and water seepage channels and usually contributes to coal mining accidents in shallow buried coal seams with larger mining height working faces. Thus, the evolution features of ground fissures in large mining height working faces and shallow buried coal seams were explored by considering field observation data, similar simulation, and numerical simulations. The results show that the weathered rock layer above the thin bedrock inhibits fracture growth caused by coal mining. Overlying strata fracture expansion can be quantitatively divided into three stages based on fractal dimension: the overburden fracture formation stage, the overburden deformation fracture expansion stage, and the overburden fracture stable development stage. The movement deformation region of the ground fissure can be described by three characteristic zones: the boundary tension zone, the central compression zone, and the central dynamic tension and compression zone. Central dynamic fissures usually have 3–5 fissure counts with 2–5 m intervals between each group of fissures; central fissures develop twice from open to closed widths; the time period for two central fissures to reach their with maximum widths is 11–20 days; and border fissures expand rapidly with maximum values in a time period of 5–6 days.
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