Improvement of the automated seismic and acoustic monitoring system “Prognoz-ADS” main elements

Abstract

The results of theoretical and experimental studies have established the need to improve and modernize the highly sensitive piezoelectric resonant type PeA12 converters used in the seismic monitoring system, which have been successfully used for more than 30 years in the rock mass at a number of rockburst hazardous mines. The main problem of the accuracy measurement by the geophone PeA12 (and other models based on it) is due to the presence of several resonances in the operating frequency band. The developed upgraded model of the AP2088 converter has successfully passed industrial testing as part of the automated monitoring system “Prognoz-ADS” at rockburst hazardous mine. During the test period (more than 1 year), seismoacoustic events were registered and verified in the rock mass, including rock burst and shocks in the rock mass. Thus, the use of highly sensitive (u10 V/m•s-2) piezoacoustic converters AP2088 as part of the automated system provides registration of acoustic emission in the rock mass in the frequency range from 0.1 to 10 kHz with the energy of seismic events from 10 to 106 J, which will increase the reliability of the forecast of geodynamic phenomena and technogenic seismicity in the control zone of the system.