Comprehensive Experimental Study on the Migration Law of the Floor at the Mining Face

Abstract

Under the circumstance that deep mining is increasingly vulnerable to underlying limestone water, accurate detection of floor failure depth ranges at a mining face becomes rather critical to coal mine production in safety. Underground borehole fiber optic sensing technology is combined with 2-D parallel electrical surveying to comprehensively monitor and analyze development laws of floor deformation and failure. Moreover, a working face 1022 in a mine of Huaibei Mining Area was taken, for example, introducing the layout of monitoring borehole and installation of relevant sensing units. Based on the stope progress of a working face, data related to strain and geoelectric fields were collected regularly to analyze relationships of field source variation characteristics and strata deformation failures. In this way, the development mechanism of the floor deformation failure can be revealed. As demonstrated by results, the depth failure of the floor at coal seam 10 is calculated to be 15 m, while its disturbance depth turns out to be 22 m. Due to advanced stress, concentrated stope load and post-mining pressure relief, the floor experienced elastic deformation, shear deformation and swelling deformation successively. Without a doubt, testing results obtained have scientific guiding significance for mines with similar geological conditions.