Deep Soft Rock Roadway Research Articles

Study on Deformation Mechanism of Deep Soft Rock Roadway in Daqiang Coal Mine of Tiefa Coal Industry

As soft rock roadway projects have the characteristics of large deformation, and earth pressure,difficult to support, and all that make shallow form of support can not meet the needs of the soft rock roadway, the main reason is that the soft rock roadway has compound deformation mechanism, which makes that the single support physical science features and rock mechanical properties can not be coupled, and a key part of the soft rock roadway begins to undermine firstly, which leads to the instability of the entire supportive system. Therefore, identifying the soft rock roadway compound deformation mechanism and transforming the compound into a single type are the key technologies to solving soft rock problems. This paper utilized the deep soft rock roadway of Daqiang Coal Mine of Tiefa Coal Industry as engineering background, systematically studied the mechanical characteristics of the soft rock roadway engineering geology, deeply analyzed the mineral properties of surrounding rock, and proposed the soft rock roadway’s compound deformation mechanism and conversion process of transforming compound into single deformation mechanism, providing important theoretical basis for designing .Daqiang Coal Mine deep soft rock roadway

Study on the Application of Bolt-Grout Reinforcement in the Deep Soft Rock Roadway

With the increasement of mining depth, the strata behavior of the roadway is obvious. As the stress of surrounding rock increases, the bottom of the soft rock roadway becomes deformed easily compressed by its top rock and two sides rock, which leads to the occurrence of the pucking and roadway destruction. Aiming the air inlet roadway destruction phenomenon of -450th level powder magazine in Hebi Zhongtai Mining Co.Ltd, the geological condition and the mechanism of the roadway failure are analysed comprehensively, and the bolt-grout supporting method is also proposed in this paper. At last, the deformation and heaving floor are controlled effectively which is proved by the field monitoring results.

Study on Stability for Intersection of Deep Soft Rock Roadway

With the depth increasing continuously, more complicated of geological conditions, will make intersection in deep soft rock roadway is very difficult to support. In order to solve the intersection problem of difficult to support, combined with the third levels of the Fifth Coal Mine of Hemei, the coupling supporting design—anchor-mesh-cable + truss to control stability of crossing point—is proposed. Based software of FLAC3D, simulate the program applicable in deep soft rock roadway intersection. Application results show that the coupling support technology of anchor-mesh-cable + truss can effectively control the deformation of intersection in deep soft rock roadway.

Investigation on Deformation and Failure Characteristics and Stability Control of Soft Rock Roadway Surrounding Rock in Deep Coal Mine

Numerical simulation and field measurement were carried out to investigate into laws of deformation and movement and the evolving characteristics of the plastic region around the roadway based on engineering conditions of deep soft rock roadway in Wangfenggang colliery, Huainan Mining area. The mechanism of controlling the surrounding rock stability of soft rock roadway in deep coal mine was demonstrated. The supporting of soft rock roadway in deep coal mine must be compatible with deformation and failure characteristics of surrounding rock, and it can keep the stability of surrounding rock. The combined supporting with high strength and prestress bolting-anchoring and integral surrounding rock grouting reinforcement can effectively control the surrounding rock deformation of soft rock roadway in deep coal mine. But every working step must be pay attention to sequence on the time and space so that it can play an integral supporting effect. Research results are put into practice accordingly and good control effect has been achieved.

The Coupling Support Technology for Y Style Large Span Intersection in Deep Soft Rock Roadway

Because of crossing point’s large span, stress concentration clearly, result in parts of the intersection of poor support, construction and maintenance difficult, especially Y-Intersection is more serious part of deformation and failure. Through situ investigation and theoretical research, summarize the typical failure modes of the deep large Y-intersection, analyze the main reasons for destruction of the crossing point that is both sides of Bovine unconstrained and supported respectively. The new coupling supporting design—bolt-mesh-cable + truss to control the top of crossing point , while the key technology of the double control bolt is used to control the Crossing point.—is proposed.

Characterization of brittle failure using physical model experiments under polyaxial stress conditions

Deep soft rock roadways generally present large deformation characteristics, and a vast number of workers attempt to repair them to no avail. A true 3D model test was performed based on the engineering background of the transportation roadway of the Huafeng coal mine in China. The selected analogous materials have a significant time similarity relationship with the surrounding rock, and a similar bolt-mesh-shotcrete support structure, according to the engineering background, was applied to the roadway. The test results showed that the evolution process of the rheological deformation of the roadway is two sidewalls → floor → vault → full-section convergence of the roadway. The large deformation zones of the surrounding rock are constantly transferred from the surface to the depth, and the bearing capacity of the bolts decreases rapidly after the deformation of the anchorage zones. The mechanical characteristics of the floor determine that the lower surrounding rock always repeats the failure process of the upper rock stratum, and the floor heave does not stop. The test results revealed the full-section convergence rheological deformation laws and migration laws of the internal key deformation locations of the surrounding rock and clarified the reasons for the floor heave. The model test results are verified through field monitoring, and opportunities and suggestions for secondary support are determined. These results could provide a reference for the failure process and control technology of the same type of deep soft rock roadway.

Effect of a single weak lithological structure on the height of a collapsing roof in a deep soft rock roadway

Besides the cross sections of roadways and the tendency and obliquity of roadway axes, the major controlling factors affecting the height of a collapsing roof include the weak lithological structure of surrounding rocks. This thesis analyzes the effect of two single and weak lithological structures of both sides and the roof on the height of a collapsing roof in a deep soft rock roadway. Using the two-dimensional UDEC3.1 software, a numerical simulation was carried out on the models of weak lithological structures of both sides of a roadway and of two weak lithological structures of roof of different depths. We reconstruct the overall processes from a break-away layer, bending, subsidence and the cracking of a collapsing roof. We also illustrate the distribution characteristics of displacement fields in the surrounding rock after the roof collapse in a deep soft rock roadway. The results of our numerical simulations indicate that the form of a roof collapse is side-expanding when the roadway is a weak structure at both sides. The height of the roof collapse is related to the lithological combination of the roof when the roadway is a weak structure of the roof.

Deformation mechanism and excavation process of large span intersection within deep soft rock roadway

The FLAC 3D software was used to simulate and analyze numerically the displacement, stress and plastic zone distribution characteristics of a large span intersection in a deep soft rock roadway after the surrounding rock was excavated. Our simulation results show that there are two kinds of dominating factors affecting roadway stability at points of intersection, one is the angle between horizontal stress and axial direction of the roadway and the other are the angles at the points of intersection. These results are based on a study we carried out as follows: first, we analyzed the failure mechanism of a large span intersection and then we built a mechanical model of a rock pillar at one of the points of intersection. At the end of this analysis, we obtained the failure characteristics of the critical parts on the large span intersection. Given these failure characteristics, we proposed a new supporting method, i.e., a Double-Bolt Control Technology (DBCT). By way of numerical simulation, DBCT can effectively control the deformation of the surrounding rock at the points of intersection in roadways.

Creep characteristic simulation of deep soft rock roadway and long-term mechanical analysis of lining support

By the generalized Kelvin creep model, rheological characteristics of deep soft rock and long-term mechanical behaviors of support structures were simulated. Mechanical deformation characteristics of support structures under different lining circumstances were also analyzed on the basis of deducing the relationship between the generalized Kelvin creep model and implicit creep equations in ANSYS FEM software. The results show that high stress of deep tunnels is the main factor in creep damage; the surrounding rock’s deformation binding effect due to lining increases as the thickness increases but the effect becomes very weak when it increases to a certain value; contact pressure on the lining decreases as its thickness decreases.