Characteristics of Overburden and Ground Failure in Mining of Shallow Buried Thick Coal Seams under Thick Aeolian Sand

Guangchun Liu, Youfeng Zou, Wenzhi Zhang and Junjie Chen
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Guangchun Liu: School of Surveying and Land Information Engineering, Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo 454000, China
Youfeng Zou: School of Surveying and Land Information Engineering, Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo 454000, China
Wenzhi Zhang: School of Surveying and Land Information Engineering, Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo 454000, China
Junjie Chen: School of Surveying and Land Information Engineering, Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo 454000, China

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 7, 1-16

Abstract: Mining can lead to overburden failure and ground damage, which are more severe in mining shallow buried thick coal seams (SBTCS) under thick aeolian sand (TAS). We attempted to discover characteristics of mining in this particular geological condition through theoretical derivation and numerical simulation, and field monitoring. Theoretical methods, combined with numerical simulation and field monitoring methods, reveal the essence of the development and distribution of surface cracks caused by mining SBTCS and depth to thickness ratio (DTR) to be 13.43, less than 15. The findings show that, when mining SBTCS, the overburden breaks down periodically, the initial collapse distance is greater than the collapse step, approximately 55 m on average, and the collapse step is approximately 45 m, on average, in the Daliuta Coal Mine. The collapsed blocks are stacked into goaf and form “masonry beams”, and many cracks and pores are generated between the blocks. The weak stress of the aeolian sand layer causes the movement angle in the aeolian sand layer to be smaller than that in the bedrock, and leads to much sheer, tension and compression failure on the ground, and the main forms of cracks are compression uplift, tensile cracking, shear step.

Keywords: thick aeolian sand; shallow buried thick seam; overburden failure; ground damage; numerical simulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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