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Figure 15.19 Instrumentation layout<br />

used in heading 2, main gate 22,<br />

Angus Place Colliery, Western Coal<br />

Field, New South Wales, Australia<br />

(SE = sonic extensometer; SG =<br />

strain gauged rock bolts; WE = wire<br />

extensometer; all dimensions in mm)<br />

(after Hebblewhite <strong>and</strong> Lu, 2004).<br />

LONGWALL COAL MINING<br />

element are more suitable for some conditions than for others (Frith, 2000, Fuller,<br />

1999). Mechanisms that may have to be taken into account include:<br />

bed separation, roof sag <strong>and</strong> buckling, particularly under high horizontal stresses,<br />

requiring roof beam formation <strong>and</strong> reinforcement <strong>and</strong> tying the roof beam back to<br />

sufficiently strong <strong>and</strong> stable strata under weak roof conditions;<br />

shear failure on bedding planes;<br />

compressive (shear) failure of rock materials;<br />

tensile failure of rock materials <strong>and</strong> opening of pre-existing joints under low or<br />

relieved horizontal stress conditions;<br />

falls of blocks of rock isolated by bedding planes, joints <strong>and</strong> stress-induced<br />

fractures;<br />

unravelling of closely jointed <strong>and</strong> fractured rock or coal; <strong>and</strong><br />

rib failures in coal under vertical stress concentrations or adverse geological<br />

conditions.<br />

Computational methods have been developed to analyse some of these mechanisms<br />

(e.g. Tarrant <strong>and</strong> Gale, 1998) but, in practice, computational <strong>and</strong> analytical design<br />

methods are usually supported by the observational method through monitored trials<br />

<strong>and</strong> in-service performance monitoring (e.g. Frith, 2000, Hebblewhite <strong>and</strong> Lu, 2004).<br />

Figure 15.19 shows the instrumentation layout installed by Hebbelwhite <strong>and</strong> Lu (2004)<br />

within 2mofamain gate face at the Angus Place Colliery. Through the use of<br />

this instrumentation system, they found that delamination <strong>and</strong> dilation occurred in<br />

strata above the zone reinforced by the 2.1 m long bolts illustrated in Figure 15.18<br />

causing significant roof deformations. Hebblewhite <strong>and</strong> Lu (2004) concluded that<br />

longer primary roof bolts <strong>and</strong>, in some locations, cable bolts were required to prevent<br />

deformation in the upper strata.<br />

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