Study on Multisize Effect of Mining Influence of Advance Speed in Steeply Inclined Extrathick Coal Seam

Abstract

Aiming at the multisize effect of mining in steeply inclined extrathick coal seam, taking the fully mechanized top-coal caving mining in B3+6 coal seam +425 level in the south of Wudong coal mine as the background, this paper studies the mining stress evolution law under the influence of advancing speed, analyzes the mechanical characteristics of coal samples under the mining action of steeply inclined extrathick coal seam, and completes the multisize effect study of mining in steeply inclined extrathick coal seam. The results show that the stress change theory of fully mechanized top-coal caving mining in steeply inclined seam is deduced, and the loading and unloading stress of fully mechanized top-coal caving mining is positively correlated with the advancing speed of the working face. The numerical simulation experiment shows that the ideal advancing condition increases with the advancing speed of the working face, and the cyclic loading and unloading amplitude under the mining stress path increases, the cyclic times decrease, the main influence area increases, and the acting time decreases. The peak value of mining stress, the width of the plastic zone, and its elastic energy under high-speed propulsion are obviously larger. A method of mechanical behavior analysis of coal samples is proposed, which takes the mining stress path of the numerical simulation experiment as the indoor scale loading and unloading stress path of coal samples. The average compressive strength of coal samples under the mining stress path increases with the advancing speed of the working face, and the damage degree of coal samples increases with the advancing speed of different stress paths. The input strain energy of coal cyclic loading and unloading increases with the increase in the advancing speed of the stress path. The input strain energy of the coal sample has obvious linear relationship with the advancing speed of different paths. The research results can be used for reference in the study of multisize effect of mining impact of advancing speed.

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