In multiple seams?mining, the seam with relatively low gas content (protective seam) is often extracted prior to mining its overlying and/or underlying seams of high gas content and low permeability to minimize the risk of high gas emission and outbursts of coal and gas. A key to success with this mining sequence is to gain a detailed understanding of the movement and fracture evolution of the overlying and underlying strata after the protective seam in extracted. In Zhuji mine, the No. 11-2 seam is extracted as a protective seam with the pillarless mining method by retaining goaf-side roadways prior to its overlying No. 13-1 seam. An investigation has been undertaken in the panel 1111(1) of Zhuji mine to physically simulate the movement and fracture evolution of the overlying strata after the No. 11-2 seam is extracted. In the physical simulation, the displacement, strain, and deformation and failure process of the model for simulation were acquired with various means such as grating displacement meter, strain gauges, and digital photography. The simulation result shows that: (1) Initial caving interval of the immediate roof was 21.6?m, the first weighting interval was 23.5–37.3?m with the average interval of 33.5?m, and the periodic weighting interval of the main roof was in a range of 8.2–20.55?m and averaged at 15.2?m. (2) The maximum height of the caving zone after the extraction of No. 11-2 seam was 8.0?m, which was 4 times of the seam mining height and the internal strata of the caving zone collapsed irregularly. The mining-induced fractures developed 8–30?m above the mined No. 11-2 seam, which was 7.525 times of the seam mining height, the fracture zone was about 65° upward from the seam open-off cut toward the goaf, the height of longitudinal joint growth was 4–20 times of the mining seam height, and the height of lateral joint growth was 20–25 times of the mining seam height. (3) The “arch-in-arch” mechanical structure of the internal goaf was bounded by an expansion angle of broken strata in the lateral direction of the retained goaf-side roadway. The spatial and temporal evolution regularities of overburden’s displacement field and stress field, dynamic development process and distribution of fracture field were analyzed. Based on the simulation results, it is recommended that several goaf drainage methods, i.e. gas drainage with buried pipes in goaf, surface goaf gas drainage, and cross-measure boreholes, should be implemented to ensure the safe mining of the panel 1111(1).
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