Analysis of the response characteristics of a roadway wall under the impact of gas explosion

Abstract

Abstract Mine gas explosion causes serious failure (damage) to the roadway, but the research on the response characteristics of the impact load of gas explosion to the roadway wall are still very limited. In view of the shortcomings of the existing research, the LS‐DYNA software is used to establish the physical and mathematical models of gas explosion in a roadway, and the validation results show that the model is effective and reliable. Based on the model, changes of pressure, velocity, displacement of roadway walls and equivalent stress under the impact of gas explosions are measured. The response characteristics of the end and wall of roadway under the thermal impact of gas explosion are analyzed. The results show that the pressure on the closed end wall, the center and edge of the roadway is relatively large, and the wall failure is also relatively more serious. With the propagation of gas explosion, the overpressure on the closed end wall gradually attenuates, and the maximum overpressure region also retracts to the center. At the closed end, the explosion pressure is first loaded on the inner wall and gradually transferred to the outer wall. During the transfer, the pressure decays step by step, and the velocity of the measuring point at the closed end decays continuously. With the propagation of gas explosion, the displacement of each measuring point in the Z direction increases continuously. In the axial direction, the displacement near the center of the roadway is large, and then the displacement decreases in the form of regular rings. The impact load produced by the gas explosion is first loaded onto the closed end wall, resulting in wall deformation and equivalent stress. The study results can provide some theoretical basis and data support for the roadway wall design, and reduction of the wall failure.

Keywords

• gas explosion
• impact load
• numerical simulation
• pressure
• wall response