Study on Formation Mechanism of Pre-stressed Anchor Pressure Arch Based on Safe Co-Mining of Deep Coal and Gas

Abstract

It is challenging to assure safe and effective gas mining due to the surrounding soft coal rock and rock roads in deep and high gas mines being extremely loose and broken. One of the effective ways is to arrange pre-stressed anchors in a certain area of the roadway surrounding rocks to form a compression arch with the joint action of anchors and surrounding rocks, but due to the lack of in-depth systematic research on the formation mechanism of the compression arch, the effect is difficult to give full play. The typical microstructure of deep soft coal and rock was observed by the borehole camera method, and the mechanical performance parameters were measured in the laboratory. The distribution characteristics of different bolt spacing, bolt pre-tightening force, and bolt length along the bolt arrangement direction and the additional compressive stress on the surface of the straight wall of a semi-circular arch deep soft coal and rock roadway were numerically simulated and analyzed. According to the uniform distribution range and size of the small fluctuation of the additional compressive stress inside the coal and rock, the distribution and size of the additional compressive stress on the surface of the straight wall and the effective superposition of the additional compressive stress, and the thickness and strength of the compression arch of the deep coal and rock preload bolt were analyzed, and the reasonable parameters of the pre-stressed bolt were determined. The results show that bolt spacing, pre-tightening force, and bolt length significantly affect the thickness and strength of the compression arch. The reasonable spacing of the pre-stressed bolt was a × b = 600 mm × 600 mm~400 mm × 400 mm, the pre-stressed bolt pre-tightening force was F = 50~90 kN, the length of the pre-stressed bolt was L = 1500~2000 mm, the strength of compression arch was Δσc = −1.480~−1.589 MPa, and the thickness of the compression arch was m = −266.67~−533.33 mm.