Behavior of a Coal Pillar Prone to Burst in the Southern Appalachian Basin of the United States

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• Personal Author:
  Iannacchione, Anthony
• Description:
  One of the more pressing engineering problems for deep longwall mines in the Southern Appalachian Basin is to design longwall systems that will eliminate catastrophic coal pillar failure from the working environment. The purpose of this study is to quantify the behavior of a particular size abutment pillar prone to burst or bump. Because the 24.4-111 (80-ft) square abutment study pillar is within the pillar size commonly used in this region, understanding the behavior of this pillar should aid in future efforts to design optimum mining strategies. This research has attempted to construct the pillar stress and roof-to-floor convergence profiles in order to evaluate the ultimate strength, deformation modulus, visco-elastic deformation, and violent failure characteristics of the pillar during longwall mining. This information reflects the overriding influence of the local geologic characteristics on bursts, provides the field measurements needed to verify concurrent modeling studies, and suggest some basic mechanisms associated with the coal pillar bursts discussed in this paper.
• Subjects:
  NIOSH
• Document Type:
  Text
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20033268
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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  urn:sha-512:15f32788cb610df283ed3b6f4db45beb9f6b1cea3b60cd8f90ea4863433c9eec4deb2843808974af2a45dc5b35f4233ef1146d0a6f87b8b9153f6c43f65db215
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