| Abstract: | The commercial FEM software ANSYS was used to analyze the failure characteristics of overburden strata under the conditions of different lengths of mining faces. It was shown that the parameters of mining faces, especially the length was the important factor to the failure heights and shapes of overburden strata. Fuzzy mathematics and statistical methods were used to analyze the forecasting method of the failure height of overburden strata influenced by the parameters of mining face based on the measured data under the conditions of fully-mechanized mining of general hardness cover rocks. On the basis of these analyses, a new forecasting formula was gotten. The forecasting result conforms to the in situ measured value. The result has a very important application value in safe and high-efficient mining, and has a very important advancing function to theoretical studies. |
