“…The distribution laws of the mining stress in floor and its additional stress were analyzed by utilizing numerical simulations and physical simulations, and reasonable parameters for a floor roadway layout were obtained (Gao et al, 2015;Ma et al, 2015;Liu et al, 2016;Feng et al, 2016). In terms of the deformation and stability of a roadway, the deformation characteristics of the surrounding rocks, such as the floor heave and roof fall of the roadway, were examined using on-site observations, physical simulations, and numerical simulations (Islam and Shinjo, 2009;Jiang et al, 2016Jiang et al, , 2017a. Given the instability of roadways with a soft interlayer, the physical and chemical properties, along with the engineering mechanical properties of the soft interlayer were studied using rock mechanical tests, physical simulations, numerical simulations, and theoretical analysis.…”