Surrounding Rock Stability Classification Method of Coal Roadway Based on In Situ Stress

In situ stress is one of the most important factors affecting surrounding rock stability classification of coal roadway. Most surrounding rock stability classification methods do not fully consider the influence of in situ stress. In this paper, the author applied a fuzzy clustering method to the classification of surrounding rock stability of coal roadway. Taking into account the complexity of the classification of surrounding rock, some factors such as the strength of surrounding rock, in situ stress, the main roof first weighting interval, the size of the chain pillar, and the immediate roof backfilled ratio are selected as the evaluation indexes. The weight coefficients of these evaluation indexes are determined by unary regression and multiple regression methods. Using fuzzy clustering and empirical evaluation method, the classification model of surrounding rock stability of coal roadway is proposed, which is applied to 37 coal roadways of Zibo Mining Group Ltd., China. The result is in good agreement with practical situation of surrounding rock, which proves that the fuzzy clustering method used to classify the surrounding rock in coal roadway is reasonable and effective. The present model has important guiding significance for reasonably determining the stability category of surrounding rock and supporting design of coal roadway.

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