Stress transfer control technology for fracturing weak structural bodies in subgrade dynamic pressure roadways

Abstract

In order to meet the needs of safe production in coal mines, many roadways are arranged in the bottom plate of coal seams, such as part of transportation alleys，drainage roadways, and gas extraction roadways. The mining stress generated by the working face causes the stress increase of the surrounding rock of the floor roadway through the transmission of the floor rock strata. It exacerbates the deformation of the surrounding rock of the floor roadway, which is easy to cause permanent support failure, roof sinking, dropsy at the bottom of the roadway, convergence of the two gangs, and other damages. In response to this, a control technology is proposed to implement hydraulic fracturing in the stress transfer path, creating a network of hydraulic fractures with a certain spatial pattern in the designated area, forming a fractured weak structural body, realizing stress transfer within the area, thus reducing the stress within the area of the roadway, and controlling the stability of the perimeter rock of the roadway, and through theoretical analysis and field engineering verification, the mechanical mechanism of stress transfer of weak structures in floor dynamic pressure roadway fracturing is revealed, the corresponding mechanical model is established, and the influence factors such as reasonable location and range of weak structures are solved. The results show that: ① Fracturing weak structure causes obvious changes in local stress field, and there are stress increasing zone and stress decreasing zone, and the stress decreasing zone is mainly distributed in the direction of the connection between weak structure and mining stress, mainly concentrated in an arch range; Due to the expansion effect, the stress concentration occurs in the vertical direction of the stress source, and the stress rise area appears. ② The magnitude of maximum principal stress change is related to the long axis L, short axis H, distance P to the roadway, horizontal angle β to the roadway line, strength C and internal friction angle α of the fractured layer, and damage variable D of the fracture in the weak structural body of the fracture. ③ The proposed method is used to design the pressure relief scheme of 103 belt concentrated roadway in Yuandian No. 1 Mine of Huaibei Mining Group. The engineering application results show that the deformation rate of roadway under dynamic pressure of floor is significantly reduced, and the rationality of the stress transfer model of fractured weak structure in roadway under strong dynamic pressure of floor is verified.

Keywords

• mining stress
• weak structural bodies
• hydraulic fracturing
• pressure relief
• roof cutting
• surrounding rock control