Investigation of burst risk under the combined effect of remnant coal pillar and fault in a mining condition of super-adjacent burst-prone coal seams
Multiple coal seams are often found in main burst-prone coal mines in China and thus safe mining of multiple coal seams are of great importance for the energy safety.Most of these coal seams are close to each other.In recent years,with the exhaustion of the upper coal seam mining.During the mining of super-adjacent burst-prone coal seams,the coal pillars left in the upper coal seam bear a higher overburden load,which brings a greater risk to the mining of the lower coal seam.When there is a fault under the remnant coal pillars,the combined effect of the stress concentration area caused by the remnant coal pillars and the stress anomaly area near the surrounding rock of the fault has a great influence on the mining of the working face.In this paper,the 40201 working face of Dafosi Coal Mine in Binchang City,Shaanxi Province is taken as the research object.The influence of the composite action of the remnant coal pillars and the fault on the impact risk of the lower rock burst-prone coal seam mining is theoretically analyzed.The seismic wave tomography technology and microseismic monitoring technology are used to explore the static load and dynamic load distribution law of the surrounding rock of the working face under the composite action of the remnant coal pillars and the fault.The results show that the static load concentration area generated by the fault fracture zone in the coal seam under the action of the overlying remnant coal pillars will transfer to the two sides of the fault,which makes the fault more prone to slip instability.Under the combined action of the remnant coal pillars and faults,the pressure of"square"area of the working face is earlier than the theoretical prediction results,and the pressure strength increases;the dynamic load behavior of the working face is mainly in the area under the remnant coal pillars,and the existence of the remnant coal pillars increases the influence range of the advance abutment pressure of the working face.The research can provide some reference for burst-prone coal seam mining under similar conditions.