Influence of In-Situ Stress on Cut Blasting of One-Step Raise Excavation Using Numerical Analysis Based on a Modified Holmquist-Johnson-Cook Model

Abstract

Due to different tensile and compressive properties of rock material, the corresponding tensile and compressive damage evolution show major differences. To investigate the tensile and compressive damage evolution in deep cut blasting with different in-situ stresses, an improved Holmquist-Johnson-Cook (HJC) material model considers the tensile and compressive damage separately is developed. The improved HJC model is implemented into LS-DYNA via a user-defined subroutine in this study. Then, a numerical model with different in-situ stresses loading schemes is modelled. Numerical simulation results show that in-situ stress can inhibit the development of tensile damage evolution, while promote the development of compressive damage evolution. The overall damage zone presents a decreasing trend with the increase of in-situ stress, because the tensile damage is more sensitive than the compressive damage for rock material. In addition, the maximum principal stress can determine the development of the direction of damage. Further, for a field test of blind cut raise in deep, the actual in-situ stress values are loaded on the numerical model. Then, in order to overcome the difficulties caused by in-situ stress, the cut blasting design is optimized by reducing hole spacing. Subsequently, the optimized cut parameters are applied in the blind cut raise. However, the one-step raise excavation method is adjusted to two steps to ensure success due to a serious borehole deviation between drilling and design drawing. After these steps, the formation of the blind cut raise with 8.7 m depth is met the requirements of design.