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Published in: Environmental Earth Sciences 11/2015

01-06-2015 | Thematic Issue

Elliptical fracture network modeling with validation in Datong Mine, China

Authors: Wencheng Jin, Mingzhong Gao, Bin Yu, Ru Zhang, Jing Xie, Zhiqiang Qiu

Published in: Environmental Earth Sciences | Issue 11/2015

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Abstract

Roof-coal recovery rate and the performance of gas extraction are essentially controlled by the fractures within coal-rock mass. Thus, it is important to generate the accurate fracture network ahead of mining face. In this study, ten boreholes located differently from the 8212 working face of Tashan Mine in Datong coal mining group, China, were drilled. With the help of borehole video instruments, the location, orientation of each fracture and the fracture number of different intersection type on each borehole wall were mapped with the advancing of mining face. These data were analyzed using the Matlab Toolbox RJNS3D and Dips to determine structural homogeneity zone, to find the number of fracture sets that exist in the coal-rock mass, volume density frequency for each set and the probability distributions of orientation, fracture size in 3-D. Sampling biases associated with orientation, spacing were corrected during the process. The constructed fracture networks were validated by comparing the observed mean spacing along normal vector of mean orientation for each set and the predict value on similar scanlines.

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Metadata
Title
Elliptical fracture network modeling with validation in Datong Mine, China
Authors
Wencheng Jin
Mingzhong Gao
Bin Yu
Ru Zhang
Jing Xie
Zhiqiang Qiu
Publication date
01-06-2015
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Environmental Earth Sciences / Issue 11/2015
Print ISSN: 1866-6280
Electronic ISSN: 1866-6299
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-015-4158-4

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