Mining above confined aquifer has become an important task for water inrush prevention in China. To study the failure characteristics of stope floor along the strike, a mechanical model under combined action of mining and confined aquifer was constructed, and the distribution of vertical stress, horizontal stress, and shear stress was obtained. Based on the Mohr–Coulomb criterion, the failure range of the floor is determined and verified by the in situ test. The results indicate the following. (1) Both vertical stress and horizontal stress in the stope floor take the junction of stress increasing area and stress decreasing area as the dividing line, forming two groups of “convex arches” at the solid coal side and the goaf side, respectively. (2) The vertical stress gradient in the solid coal side is significantly higher than that in the goaf side, while the horizontal stress gradient in the solid coal side is similar to that in the goaf side. The shear stress distribution is divided into three regions by the boundary between positive and negative shear stress, which makes the stope floor in this area to show compression shear or tension shear failure. (3) According to the in situ test, the maximum floor failure depth of 41503 working face is 11.38 m, which is quite close to the theoretical calculation result of 9.68 m. (4) Applying the mechanical model to five other coal mines with different mining conditions and stress states, the maximum absolute error between the measured and theoretical values of floor failure depth is 1.1 m, the average absolute error is 0.8 m, the maximum relative error is 8.2%, and the average relative error is 6.5%. The study provides a certain mechanical basis and reference for the floor failure mechanism induced by mining and confined aquifer.
The mechanical behavior of coal is significantly influenced by the loading rate and bedding plane. In this paper, the uniaxial compression tests at different loading rates were conducted on coal specimens with vertical bedding (CSVB) and coal specimens with parallel bedding (CSPB), which were prepared by the coal with bursting liability from the Ordos deep mining areas, China. The results show that the uniaxial compressive strengths of CSVB and CSPB are positively correlated with the loading rate. The peak values of acoustic emission (AE) counts and accumulated absolute AE energy of CSVB and CSPB increase with the loading rate, and the AE parameters of CSVB are larger than those of CSPB. The variation rules of input energy density and elastic energy density are similar for CSVB and CSPB, but the variation rules of dissipated energy density in stage IV are different. As the axial load increases, the energy storage rate and energy dissipation rate of both coal specimen types increase and decrease, respectively. The bedding planes of coal and the loading conditions in the field should be fully considered when identifying the bursting liability of coal and forecasting coal burst. This study can provide a reference for coal burst warning and prevention under similar geological conditions in Ordos deep mining areas.
Coalbed methane (CBM) development requires dewatering until the reservoir pressure is less than the critical desorption pressure. Significant quantities of CBM in China are buried >1000 m deep. Therefore, the desorption characteristics of deep CBM reservoirs must be investigated for the further development of deep CBM. In this study, the variation laws of adsorbed and free CH4 during adsorption in dry samples and during desorption via dewatering are investigated using nuclear magnetic resonance. During CH4 adsorption in dry samples by increasing CH4 pressure and during CH4 desorption in water-injected samples by dewatering, a Langmuir relationship exists between the volume of adsorbed CH4 and the pressure in deep and shallow coals, and the volume of free CH4 and the pressure are linearly related. When the pressure is the same, the volume of adsorbed CH4 in the dry coal samples during adsorption is larger than that in the water-injected samples during desorption by dewatering. When the pressure is the same, for the difference in the adsorbed CH4 volume between adsorption and desorption isotherms, shallow coal is less significant than deep coal. The slopes of free CH4 in deep coal are lower than those in shallow coal during adsorption and desorption.
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