Three-dimensional problems of wall-rock stability in the vicinity of a cleaned working with control exercised over the stress-strain state of the mass

Abstract

As the depth of mining operations increases, control over the stress-stain state (SSS) of the rock mass to ensure safe and effective exploitation of coal deposits is becoming a basic underground procedural process. An arbitrary change in the SSS of the mass under conditions where it is acted upon by large compressive loads may lead, in turn, however, to local buckling and fracture of the free surface of the rock in the near-face zone of a cleaned working during the mining of mineral resources. Individual classes of rock-stability problems that arise in the three-diumensional statement are formulated in this paper on the basis of analysis of actual conditions and technology for the mining of mineral resources at great depths. The rock mass is treated as a inhomogeneous semi-restrained medium of laminar structure; these studies were therefore conducted within the framework of the model of a piecewise-homogeneous medium on the basis of approaches developed previously. 8 refs., 2 figs., 2 tabs.