Long-Term Czech Experiences with Rockbursts with Applicability to Today’s Underground Coal Mines

0491713 - ÚGN 2020 RIV AT eng J - Journal Article
Koníček, Petr - Ptáček, Jiří - Waclawik, Petr - Kajzar, Vlastimil
Long-Term Czech Experiences with Rockbursts with Applicability to Today’s Underground Coal Mines.
Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering. Roč. 52, č. 5 (2019), s. 1447-1458. ISSN 0723-2632. E-ISSN 1434-453X
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT(CZ) LO1406
Institutional support: RVO:68145535
Keywords : rockburst * hard coal * underground longwall mining * rock mechanics * deep mining
OECD category: Environmental and geological engineering, geotechnics
Impact factor: 4.140, year: 2019
Method of publishing: Limited access
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs00603-018-1489-y.pdf

In the Czech part of the Upper Silesian Coal Basin, there are records of rockbursts dating back as early as the beginning of the last century. Since then, 450 such rockbursts of varying intensities have been recorded. This article is a vignette of our recent opinion on rockburst issues in the Ostrava–Karvina Coalfield. It comments on the main causes of rockbursts and summarises the strategic measures taken against them. It highlights the main mistakes in mine design in rock mass that lead to a rockburst risk and supports these arguments with illustrative examples from Czech hard coal mining. Long-term analyses of the causes of rockbursts provide recommendations on proper mining techniques for excavation of a rock mass with rockburst risk.
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