STRESS-TRANSFER METHOD IN TUNNEL WITH HIGH GROUND PRESSURE BASED ON FRACTURING RING
20190316454 ยท 2019-10-17
Assignee
- China University of Mining and Technology (Jiangsu, CN)
- XUZHOU USURE MINING TECHNOLOGY CO.,LTD (Jiangsu, CN)
Inventors
- Bingxiang HUANG (Jiangsu, CN)
- Jiangwei Liu (Jiangsu, CN)
- Xinglong ZHAO (Jiangsu, CN)
- Shuliang CHEN (Jiangsu, CN)
Cpc classification
E21F17/00
FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
E21D9/00
FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
International classification
Abstract
A stress-transfer method in tunnel with high ground pressure based on fracturing ring. According to the stress source of the tunnel, fracturing by drilling holes to form artificial weaken zones in surrounding rocks, that's named fracturing ring. The fracturing ring is the weaken zone with some width, whose inner boundary is the protective circle. The fracturing ring with small width is called the cutting and interruption circle and the cutting or interruption arc. The radius of the protective circle is determined by setting a certain width of safety coal pillar barriers at the edge of a support body. The radius of the fracturing ring is determined by the surrounding rock structure and the stress conditions as well as the construction technology. Usually, the higher the stress, the wider the radius of the fracturing ring. The cutting and interruption circle or arc could cut off all of the targeted rock which transmits the stress.
Claims
1. A stress-transfer method in a tunnel with high ground pressure based on a fracturing ring, wherein firstly, according to stress conditions of the tunnel, a stress source which has caused or will cause the strong ground pressure in the tunnel is targeted; secondly, a hole targeting the stress source is drilled to implement fracturing to create a circle of artificial weaken zones in the surrounding rocks of the tunnel, which is the fracturing ring; a radius of the fracturing ring is determined by setting a certain width of safety coal pillar barriers at an edge of a support body; the width of the fracturing ring is determined by a structure of the surrounding rocks and in-situ stress conditions as well as construction technology, wherein the higher the in-situ stress is, the wider radius the fracturing ring.
2. The stress-transfer method in tunnel with high ground pressure based on fracturing ring according to claim 1, wherein to get a wide fracturing ring, the hole is drilled to perform the fracturing in the entire hole; to get a narrow fracturing ring, that is, a cutting and interruption circle, the hole is drilled and the pre-slotting and fracturing are conducted at a bottom of the hole.
3. The stress-transfer method in tunnel with high ground pressure based on fracturing ring according to claim 2, wherein the fracturing ring changes based on the engineering requirements: when a transmission of concentrated high-stress or mining-induced stress towards the tunnel needs to be interrupted, the hole is drilled in targeted surrounding rocks where the stress is concentrated; a vertical position of the bottom of the hole is located in the targeted surrounding rocks; the targeted surrounding rocks could be a roof, a floor, a pillar a sidewall or combination thereof; the width of the fracturing ring is adjusted by changing a fracturing length of the hole; the fracturing ring with a smaller width is substantially close to a fracturing circle, which is a cutting and interruption circle; the cutting and interruption circle is used to proactively cut off the mining-induced stress and the high stress transmitted from tectonic zones and a far-field in deep mines, achieving a stress-interruption; when it needs to cut off a hard hanging roof, the formed fracturing ring has a smaller width and only a part of the fracturing ring is needed, which is called a cutting and interruption arch; the cutting and interruption arch is used to proactively cut off the hard overhanging roof to unload the tunnel.
4. The stress-transfer method in tunnel with high ground pressure based on fracturing ring according to claim 3, wherein when there is one layer or multilayer of hard rock stratum in the roof, the hole is drilled at an angle into the hard roof in the tunnel, an end part of the hole reaches to the pillar with certain distance in the horizontal direction, and the pillar with a certain width is set between the tunnel and a gob, a location of the end part of the hole in the vertical direction is located at a center of the hard roof; the hole is pre-slotted and fractured; a preset slot is induced along a direction of a fracture initiation; the fractures propagate and extend along several directions to form a fracture plane consisting of one or multiple cracks whose center is at the end of the hole; rows of holes are set along an axis of the tunnel at a certain intervals to be drilled and fractured; the cracks created by fracturing connect with each other or neighbor with each other cut off the hard roof to remove the high-stress from a origin; for roofs in some mines which are particularly hard, wherein the roofs hang but not break, such roofs are fractured after recovering from the working surface; or, such roofs are fractured before recovering from the working surface according to the design to form the fracture plane so the fractured roofs collapse by themselves under an influence of gravity after recovering from the working surface, avoiding the hanging hard roof; the cutting and interruption circle or arc cuts off all targeted rocks which transmit the stress; the cutting and interruption arc is a section which is created by the fracturing which cut off the hard roof, it is called a roof-breaking line; an optimum position of the roof-breaking line is a boundary line between a plastic zone and a crushing zone of the coal pillar.
5. The stress-transfer method in tunnel with high ground pressure based on fracturing ring according to claim 4, wherein both long holes and short holes are drilled in rows along the axis of the tunnel into the hard hanging roof, vertical positions of ends of both the short holes and the long holes are located at the center of the hard roof, wherein the long holes have a small angle of elevation, long length, is closer to a side of gob, and is more far away from the tunnel; the short holes have a large angle of elevation, short length, more far away from side of the gob, and closer to the tunnel; the ends of the long holes, arranged linearly, are main fracturing holes; the ends of the short holes, arranged linearly, are assisting fracturing holes; the holes are continuously staggered set with some space along the tunnel in an order of the long-the short-the long-the short; the pre-slotting is performed firstly and the fracturing is conducted secondly in the holes, the slotting and the fracturing could create a fracture arc which is called the long holes fracture arc in the main fracturing holes and the short holes fracturing arc in the assisting fracturing holes, the long holes fracture arc is used to cut off the rock strata of the hard roof and the short holes fracture arc is utilized to prevent the impact energy caused by the break of the roof from influencing the tunnel.
6. The stress-transfer method in tunnel with high ground pressure based on fracturing ring according to claim 4, wherein when there are two layers or multilayer of hard roof, a group of holes is respectively constructed to fracture each layer of them, a number of layers of the holes corresponds to a number of layers of the hard roof, the arrangement of same group of hole is the same for the same layer of hard roof, the vertical direction of the ends of the holes is at the center of the hard roof, such slicing fracturing for the multilayer of hard roof make the entire hard roof form layered failure.
7. The stress-transfer method in tunnel with high ground pressure based on fracturing ring according to claim 2, wherein the holes are drilled into the targeted rocks which transmit the stress or the entire surrounding rocks from the roof, the floor and the sides of the tunnel, then seal the holes, pre-slot and fracture the bottom of the hole to form the narrow fracture zone or the fracture plane, namely, the cutting and interruption circle, the cutting and interruption circle to prevent the high-stress from transmitting towards the tunnel to achieve the stress-transfer, which is conducted at the early stage of the tunnel born, before the influence of the front abutment pressure on the tunnel or in the tunnel influenced by the tectonic high-stress.
8. The stress-transfer method in tunnel with high ground pressure based on fracturing ring according to claim 2, wherein the holes are drilled into the targeted rocks which transmit the stress or the entire surrounding rocks from the roof, the floor and the sides of the tunnel, then, the seal the hole and fracture the whole hole to form the fracture ring with some width, the fracture ring transmits the high stress to farther zones to form a protective circle, the tunnel and the integrated surrounding rocks of the protective circle are in the low-stress zone to avoid the high-stress, the job could be conducted in the tunnel which influenced by the high-stress of the deep mine or the tectonic high-stress.
9. The stress-transfer method in tunnel with high ground pressure based on fracturing ring according to claim 8, wherein the holes on the sides of the tunnel are drilled to weaken the zones within the fracture circle in the completed tunnel, also, sector drilling on the tunnel driving face could be conducted in the direction of the heading to weaken the front zones within the fracture ring; a protective rock/coal pillar with the width of 310 meters are reserved at the borehole section near the tunnel when fracturing; the width of the protective pillar is dependent on the condition of surrounding rock, surrounding in-situ stress, support range and strength as well as the tunnel parameters.
10. The stress-transfer method in tunnel with high ground pressure based on fracturing ring according to claim 1, wherein the fracturing methods includes hydraulic fracturing, gas fracturing, CO2 phase-transition fracturing, electromagnetic pulse fracturing, capsule-expanding fracturing and bolts-expanding mechanical fracturing.
Description
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0027] The invention will now be further described by way of drawings and embodiments.
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[0046] In the drawings: 1, boreholes; 1-1, high level borehole; 1-2, low level boreholes; 1-3, long borehole; 1-4, short borehole; 2, tunnel; 2-1, entry meeting with the neighbor recovery face; 2-2, gob side entry; 2.3, completed tunnel; 2.4, excavating tunnel; 3, outer boundary of fracturing ring; 4, protective circle; 4-1, protective line; 5 fracturing ring; 5-1, fracturing zone; 6, coal seam; 6-1, protective coal pillar; 7, roof; 7-1, hard roof; 7-2, hard hanging roof; 7-3, cutting off the hanging roof; 7-4, high level hard roof; 7-5, low level hard roof; 8, abutment pressure; 8-1, high stress; 9, cutting and interruption arch; 10, gob; 11, broken zone; 12, plastic zone; 13, floor; 14, overlying strata; 15, broken plane; 16 stopping working face; 17, roof-broken line; 18 main roof; 19, immediate roof.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
[0047] To make the purpose, the technical solution and the advantages of the invention's embodiment much clearer, the technical solution of the invention's embodiment will be clearly and fully described by the way of the embodiment's drawings. Obviously, the described embodiment is a few part of the embodiments, not all of the embodiments. Basing on the embodiment of this invention, other embodiments which are made by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention described herein should belong to the protection scope of the invention.
[0048] The strong behavior in the tunnel is mainly related to the ambient in-situ stress. Reducing the surrounding rock stress of the tunnel can effectively reduce the probability and the intensity of the surrounding rock deformation and the dynamic disasters. The stress control actually transfers the high stress to other zones to reduce the stress of the targeted zones to a controllable value because the high stress is not able to be vanished. The in-situ stress causing the tunnel instability in terms of the source can be divided into three parts: the roof stress, the same layer stress (the face and the tunnel's sides) and the floor stress. Referring to the
[0049] For the high stress situation caused by the hard hanging roof in the gob after the recovery, on the one hand, the directional fracturing should be conducted to cut off the hanging roof; on the other hand, the pre-fracturing to the hard roof should be conducted to alleviate burdens. For the tunnels especially the tunnel heading the neighbor recovery mining face which are badly influenced by the high stress from the deep far filed, the mining induced stress from the its own face and the nearby face as well as the tunnels which are close to the fold axis and the fault structure, the directional fracturing to the surrounding rock should be conducted to cut off the stress propagation path to interrupt the stress. For the tunnel which cannot alleviate burden further and has been in the state of high stress, the fracturing to the surrounding rock in the tunnel or the heading face in the range of the fracturing ring should be conducted to form the weaken energy absorption zones, which guide the high stress to the far deeper zone.
[0050] Therefore, the process of the invention could be summed up as: the interruption, the burden-alleviating+interruption, or the burden-alleviating+interruption+stress-yielding. The specific application is as follow:
[0051] 1. Stress Relief (Unloading)
[0052] Referring
[0053] Referring to the
[0054] It would be specially mentioned that the caving roof would certainly squeeze and damage part of the protective coal pillar closing to the gob side, which would induce the integrity and width of the protective coal pillar. The stress on the coal pillar and the tunnel would be transferred against the gob. So, enough attention should be focused on the integrity of the gob side entry and the variation of stress after the roof breaking.
[0055] There would be both compressive failure and shear failure in the coal pillar zone near the gob side when the broken roof sliding and caving. When the caving roof squeeze the coal pillar near the gob side to break, it is the compressive failure. When the sliding roof shear coal pillar near the gob side to break, it is the shear failure. Thus, both the compressive strength and the shear strength should be considered. That is, the total load Q that the overlying hanging rocks exert to the coal pillar should not less than the load FN that the pillar could afford; the shear stress 1 that the overlying hanging rocks exert to the coal pillar should not less than the shear strength 0 of the coal pillar.
[0056] Usually, a relatively smaller value among the calculation results is chose as the optimum roof-broken position so that the broken hard roof could smoothly cave or slide into the gob in the two failure and there are enough width of the effective abutment coal pillar and integrity of the tunnel surrounding rock.
[0057] Combining the compressive failure and the shear failure, the position of top-broken line in the engineering of directional hydraulic fracturing to the hard hanging roof.
[0058] Referring to the
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wherein, the H is the buried depth (m) of the hard hanging roof; the D is the horizontal span (m) between the hanging roof at one side of the gob and that at another side of the gob. The a is the width (m) of the coal pillar; the l and the h are the length (m) and the thickness (m) of the roof cantilever beam relatively; the E is the elastic modulus (GPa); the E1, E2, E3, . . . En are relatively the elastic modulus of the overlying burden which are close to the main roof; the is the bulk density (MN/m3), the 1, 2, . . . n are relatively the bulk density of the overlying burden which are close to the main roof, the c is the bulk density of the coal seam; the h0, 0 are relatively the thickness (m) and the bulk density (MN/m3) of the immediate roof; the c0, 0 are relatively the cohesive strength (MPa) and the internal friction angle () of the coal seam interface; the m is the height (m) of the coal seam; the c, , v are relatively the cohesive strength (MPa), the internal friction angle () and the Poisson ratio; the b is the unified parameters of the strength criterion which indicate the influence of the intermediate principal stress on the yield and the failure of the material and is equal to 7 (0b1); the is the coal seam coefficient of the horizontal pressure, =v/(1v); the load of the main roof overlying strata to the rock beam of hard main roof is the (qn)l where the n means n layers of strata.
[0060] Referring to the
[0061] Some roofs may be particularly hard in some mines. They would hang there and don't want to collapse after recovery. Such roofs could be fractured after recovery. Also, such roof could be fractured before the recovery according to the reasonable design to form the fracture plane and the fractured roofs would collapse under the influence of gravity by themselves after the recovery, avoiding the hard roof-hanging.
[0062] When there are two layers or multilayer of the hard roof, each layer of the hard roof is conducted a row of long-short boreholes whose vertical components is in the center of the roof. The same kinds of the boreholes aiming at the same layer of the rock have the same horizontal length. That is, the 1-1 high level boreholes are drilled into the high level hard roof and the 1-2 low level boreholes are drilled into the low level hard roof. The fracturing to the targeted stratum could stop the stress wave induced by the recovery from transferring to the targeted surrounding rock.
[0063] Referring to the
[0064] 2. Stress Interruption
[0065] Firstly, there is usually a high stress in the deep mines. Under the influence of the far field stress, the stress of the surrounding rock in the tunnel would gradually rise as time goes on. Secondly, the surrounding rock of the tunnel may be influenced by the mining-induced stress or other disturbance of its own face as well as the mining-induced stress of the neighbor faces during the tunnel conduction and tunnel maintenance, whose stress would obviously rise within the range of the influence. Especially, when the tunnel extraction face meets with the neighbor recovery face, the dynamic load coefficient could increase by several or tens of times which induce the strong ground pressure behavior. Thirdly, when the tunneling face meets the geological tectonic zone or the tunnel maintained is in the geological tectonic zone, the stress would highly concentrate, which might make the strong ground pressure behavior and serious deformation.
[0066] Firstly, for the tunnel with rising stress in the surrounding rock caused by the deep in-situ stress, a closed and rounded narrow fracture zone or plane should be formed in the periphery of the tunnel. So, just after the tunneling complete, the stress transfer from the far filed to the tunnel should be prevent by the cutting and interruption circle as early as possible. Secondly, for the tunnel with rising stress caused by the mining recovery or the geological tectonic zone, the stress transfer should be stop. The location and the propagation path of the stress source should be targeted and the rock strata which transfer the stress should be specially fractured to form narrow fracture zone or fracture plane, namely, the cutting and interruption circle or the cutting and interruption arch by which the stress could be prevent from transmitting. In the long wall mining, the neighbor mining face usually transfer the dynamic load to the tunnel through the roof above the coal pillar; the upper mining face usually transfer the dynamic load to the tunnel through the upper roof; its own face usually transfers the dynamic load to the tunnel through the roof of the mining face side; the inclined coal seam or the steeply inclined coal seam mainly transfer the dynamic load to the tunnel through the floor. Thirdly, for the tunnel with rising stress caused by the geological tectonic structure, the rock strata between the structure and the tunnel should be cut off to form the fracture plane which stop the stress transfer.
[0067] The integrated rock stratum with middle hardness in the roof is usually the key stratum to propagate the high stress. Referring to the
[0068] 3. Stress Yielding
[0069] Referring to the
[0070] For those stress transfer methods, the fracturing methods includes hydraulic fracturing, gas fracturing, CO2 phase-transition fracturing, electromagnetic pulse fracturing, capsule-expanding fracturing and bolts-expanding mechanical fracturing. The cost of the pre-slotting hydraulic fracturing technology is relatively low on the whole. The cost of the pre-slotting hydraulic fracturing technology is no more than one-tenth of that of the dynamite blast if they are used to deal with the same quantities of the hard roof. After the pre-slotting hydraulic fracturing, there is no ground pressure behavior, which guarantee the mine production safety. If the number of the damaged single prop whose purchase and installation cost is 2000 RMB hypothetically take 30 in one time of ground pressure behavior, the Tongxin mine of Datong coal mine group, whose 5105 tunnel avoid 20 times of the ground pressure behavior, reduce the loss of 1 million 1200 thousand RMB for one tunnel by using the stress transfer method. Also, the delay influence of the forepoling tunnel maintenance to the normal production of the recovery working face is reduced, which increase the single working face production by 500 thousand tons of raw coal and create the benefit of about 93 million 200 thousand RMB.
[0071] As described above, it is only a better example of the invention, not any restriction of form on the invention. According to the essence of the invention, any simple modification and the same changes made to the above embodiments are within the scope of protection of the invention.