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Article history: We studied underground pressure and its mechanism during back-gully mining in a shallow coal seam
Received 21 April 2010 under a bedrock gully slope, by means of physical simulation, numerical modeling and eld monitoring. The
Accepted 15 June 2010 results show that the intensity of underground pressure is related to its relative position at the coalface. The
underground pressure is intensive and the support resistance reaches a maximum when the coalface is at
Keywords: the bottom of the gully, whereas the underground pressure is moderate and decreases gradually when the
Shallow coal seam
coalface passes the gully. The mechanism of these changes is analyzed when the slope rotated in a reversed
Gully slope
direction to the slope dip during back-gully mining and form an unstable, multilateral block hinged
Back-gully mining
Underground pressure
structure, due to slipping. The subsidence of multilateral blocks is considerable when the block fragmen-
tation is small, resulting in enormous changes in the underground pressure. With an increase in the mass of
the block body, the block displacement will be reduced in conjunction with an increased clamp effect by
both the unbroken rocks and broken rocks in the goaf, resulting in a decrease of the underground pressure.
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is only one thick and hard rock in the bedrock which controls the
overburden movement and either lies in the lower part of the frac-
tured zone or in the caved zone.
96.3% of the rated resistance, at the middle part when mining is under
the downstream gully. Toward the end, the maximum support resis-
tance decreases when the face advances and the depth increases.
4.1. Establishment of multilateral block hinged structural model maximum height of 80 cm. Eleven monitoring points, consisting of
seven vertical displacement points near the surface of the seam l and
Given the results of our physical simulation and numerical anal- four horizontal displacement points, are established and numbered
ysis, a structural model of a long-wall mining under a bedrock gully sequentially. The total excavation length is 225 cm with each exca-
slope is presented in Fig. 6a. Fig. 6b shows a physical model to analyze vation unit 5 cm long and an excavation interval of 10 min.
the changes in multilateral block motions and articulated features.
The model is composed of seven different sized multilateral 4.2. Mechanism analysis of the underground pressure affected by
blocks, with a total length of 245 cm, a width of 20 cm and a the movement of multilateral block hinged structures
Acknowledgments
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