Rockburst and gas outburst forecasting using a probabilistic risk assessment framework in longwall top coal caving faces
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Author(s)
Agrawal, Harshit
Durucan, Sevket
Cao, Wenzhuo
Korre, Anna
Shi, Ji-Quan
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
A probabilistic risk assessment framework was developed to mathematically represent the complex engineering phenomena of rock bursts and gas outbursts for a heterogeneous coal seam. An innovative object-based non-conditional simulation approach was used to distribute lithological heterogeneity present in the coal seam to respect their geological origin. The changing mining conditions during longwall top coal caving mining (LTCC) were extracted from a coupled numerical model to provide statistically sufficient data for probabilistic analysis. The complex interdependencies among abutment stress, pore pressure, the volume of total gas emission and incremental energy release rate, their stochastic variations and uncertainty were realistically implemented in the GoldSim software, and 100,000 equally likely scenarios were simulated using the Monte Carlo method to determine the probability of rock bursts and gas outbursts. The results obtained from the analysis incorporate the variability in mechanical, elastic and reservoir properties of coal due to lithological heterogeneity and result in the probability of the occurrence of rock bursts, coal and gas outbursts, and safe mining conditions. The framework realistically represents the complex mining environment, is resilient and results are reliable. The framework is generic and can be suitably modified to be used in different underground mining scenarios, overcoming the limitations of earlier empirical indices used.
Date Issued
2023-10-01
Date Acceptance
2022-09-12
Citation
Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, 2023, 56, pp.6929-6958
ISSN
0723-2632
Publisher
Springer
Start Page
6929
End Page
6958
Journal / Book Title
Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering
Volume
56
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Subjects
CLASSIFICATION
DYNAMICS
Engineering
Engineering, Geological
Gas outbursts
Geology
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
GoldSim
Longwall top coal caving
MICROSEISMICITY
MINES
MODEL
Monte Carlo simulation
Physical Sciences
PILLAR STABILITY
PREDICTION
Probabilistic risk assessment
RELIABILITY
ROCK BURST HAZARD
Rock bursts
Science & Technology
STRAIN-ENERGY
Technology
Publication Status
Published online
Date Publish Online
2022-10-06