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Research ArticleAnalytical Investigation for In Situ Stress Measurement withRheological Stress Recovery Method and Its Application
Quansheng Liu12 Jingdong Jiang1 Chengyuan Zhang2 and Yuanguang Zhu2
1School of Civil Engineering Wuhan University Wuhan 430072 China2State Key Laboratory of Geomechanics and Geotechnical Engineering Institute of Rock and Soil MechanicsChinese Academy of Sciences Wuhan 430071 China
Correspondence should be addressed to Quansheng Liu liuqswhrsmaccn
Received 10 October 2015 Revised 5 December 2015 Accepted 8 December 2015
Academic Editor Marek Lefik
Copyright copy 2016 Quansheng Liu et alThis is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution Licensewhich permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited
In situ stress is one of the most important parameters in underground engineering Due to the difficulty and weakness ofcurrent stress measurement methods in deep soft rock a new one rheological stress recovery (RSR) method to determine three-dimensional stress tensor is developed It is supposed that rock stresses will recover gradually with time and can be measured byembedding transducers into the borehole In order to explore the relationship between the measured recovery stress and the initialstress analytical solutions are developed for the stress measurement process with RSR method in a viscoelastic surrounding rockThe results showed that themeasured recovery stress would bemore close to the initial stress if the rockmass has a better rheologicalproperty and the property of grouting material should be close to that of rock mass Then the RSR method as well as overcoringtechnique was carried out to measure the in situ stresses in Pingdingshan Number 1 coal mines in Henan Province China Thestress measurement results are basically in the same order and the major principal stresses are approximately in the direction ofNW-SE which correlates well with the stress regime of Pingdingshan zone known from the tectonic movement history
1 Introduction
In situ stress is one of the most important parameters fordesigning stable underground structures and improvingmin-ing methods in deep soft rock Rock stresses originate fromgravity and tectonic forces and can only be inferred by drillinga borehole making a slot and coring the rock [1] A largenumber of stress measuring methods have been developedand a detailed summary of these techniques can be found inAmadei and Stephansson [2] Ljunggren et al [3] Corthesyet al [4] and Ulusay [5]
However with the decrease of shallow coal resourcesin China most of the key collieries have mined deep coalseams [6] the surrounding rocks of which tend to be softand fragmentized There exist limitations and measurementerrors in common methods for stress measurement of softrocks and effective testing is very difficult
Hydraulic fracturing (HF) can only determine the maxi-mal and minimal principle stresses in a plane vertical to theborehole and is limited in highly anisotropic and fractured
rock [7] Although hydraulic tests on preexisting fractures(HTPF) can determine the 3D stress tensor by testing a largenumber of fractures along the borehole [8ndash10] it is notan efficient method due to its assumptions Borehole reliefmethod [11ndash13] would be strongly influenced by the stresspath constitutive law and associated parameters in the inter-pretation of stress measurement [4] Other stress measuringmethods such as borehole breakout [14] and Kaiser effect[15] which estimate rock stresses based on the phenomenonrelevant to stresses have relatively low reliability and are con-troversial as a method to determine in situ stress Anelasticstrain recovery (ASR) method [16ndash18] requires orientatedrock cores and is affected by a lot of factors (eg temperaturevariation dehydration of samples and accurate orientation)[19] Therefore it is important to develop a new method tomeasure in situ stress in deep soft rock
A newmethod for in situ stress measurement in deep softrocks namely rheological stress recovery (RSR) method isproposed in this studyThe advantages of thismethod are thatit is simple inexpensive and 3DThe basic principles testing
Hindawi Publishing CorporationMathematical Problems in EngineeringVolume 2016 Article ID 7059151 12 pageshttpdxdoiorg10115520167059151
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Sensing faces
(a)
Pushrod
Triangle pulley
Goniometer
(b)
Explosion-proofenclosure
Data logger
TDPT
(c)
Figure 1 Test equipment of RSR method (a) TDPTs (b) pushrod and the goniometer (c) explosion-proof data logger
equipment calculation equations and related procedures ofRSR method will be briefly introduced Then the measuringprocess is analyzed by analytical solutions to explore theapplicability and accuracy of this method Finally the RSRmethod as well as overcoring technique was conducted inPingdingshanNumber 1 coalmine tomeasure both the in situstress orientation and magnitude at a depth of 877m
2 An Outline of RSR Method
21 Basic Principles A large number of field monitoring andlaboratory tests [20 21] have shown that rheological proper-ties of soft rocks are very significant under high geostressEven for hard rock mass that is cut by several joints and frac-tures creep deformation can also attain considerable mag-nitude [22] Thus a borehole will shrink gradually to beclosed under high geostress due to the rheological charac-teristic of soft rocks and rock stresses will recover to theinitial stress state with the growth of the time Based onthis stress measurement with RSR method is proposed It issupposed that rock stresses around the pressure transducersthat are embedded in the borehole will recover graduallyand eventually tend to be stable due to the rheologicalcharacteristics of surrounding rocks
22 Main Equipment The equipment used in this methodinvolves pressure transducers push rods with orientationdevice and a data logger shown in Figure 1 A three-dimensional pressure transducer (TDPT) which can mea-sure normal stresses in three directions is developed for insitu stress measurement with RSRmethod (Figure 1(a)) and atest point needs twoTDPTs in different directionsTheTDPTwhich contains three sensing faces (diameter = 58mm) is awaterproof cube structure (side length = 80mm) and suitablefor a pressure up to 30MPa Vibrating wire force transducersare adopted on each sensing face due to the advantages of highaccuracy and repeatability possibility for remote measuringdigitalization of results long service stability [23] and so
forth Eight corners of the TDPT have been cut out for therequirements of miniaturizationThe pushrod is used to sendthe transducers to the test point and the rotation angles ofthe transducer are recorded by the goniometer in order tocalculate the azimuth angle of each sensing face The datalogger is developed through explosion-proof design to meetthe requirement of coal mine shown in Figure 1(c)
23 Testing Procedures The RSR method for measuringthe stress in deep soft rocks comprises the following steps(Figure 2)
(1) A borehole is drilled till the test point in surroundingrocks of a soft rock tunnel
(2) Stress transducers are fixed on a connecting rod andsent to the test point a direction cosine of any twosensing faces in the normal direction is recorded andis not 1 a normal stress measuring device is mountedon each sensing face and connected with a data loggeroutside the borehole through long cables
(3) Grouting is carried out on the drilling hole and theborehole is sealed after being entirely filled
(4) After the grout is solidified pressure values arecontinually read from the data logger and six stressvalues are substituted into the calculation equationsafter the values are stable so as to obtain 3D rockstress at the test point With the adoption of thismethod evolutional stress data of the test point canbe also obtained Moreover the spatial variation andevolution of rock stress state can bemeasured througha series of pressure transducers embedded in differentdepth of the borehole
24 Calculation Equations A spatial coordinate system 119900119909119910119911
is established by taking normal directions of three mutu-ally perpendicular sensing faces as directions of coordinateaxes and 119909
1015840- 1199101015840- and 119911
1015840-axis are normal directions of
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 3
Grout
TDPTsPushrods
Borehole
Tunnel
Data logger
Cables
Figure 2 Sketch of stress measurement process with RSR method
other sensing faces 120590119909 120590119910 120590119911 1205901015840
119909 1205901015840
119910 1205901015840
119911are normal stresses
measured by each sensing face respectively The stress state(120590119909 120590119910 120590119911 120591119909119910 120591119910119911 120591119911119909) of the test point under the coordinate
system 119900119909119910119911 can be calculated through
1205901015840
119909= 1198972
1120590119909+ 1198982
1120590119910+ 1198992
1120590119911+ 211989711198981120591119909119910
+ 211989811198991120591119910119911
+ 211989911198971120591119911119909
1205901015840
119910= 1198972
2120590119909+ 1198982
2120590119910+ 1198992
2120590119911+ 211989721198982120591119909119910
+ 211989821198992120591119910119911
+ 211989921198972120591119910119911
1205901015840
119911= 1198972
3120590119909+ 1198982
3120590119910+ 1198992
3120590119911+ 211989731198983120591119909119910
+ 211989831198993120591119910119911
+ 211989931198973120591119910119911
(1)
where 120591119909119910 120591119910119911 and 120591
119911119909are shear stress components under the
coordinate system 119900119909119910119911 1198971 1198972 and 119897
3 respectively represent
direction cosines between 1199091015840- 1199101015840- and 119911
1015840-axis and 119909-axis1198981 1198982 and 119898
3 respectively represent direction cosines
between 1199091015840- 1199101015840- and 119911
1015840-axis and 119910-axis and 1198991 1198992 and 119899
3
respectively represent direction cosines between 1199091015840- 1199101015840- and
1199111015840-axis and 119911-axis
3 Definition of the Problem
In this paper a two-dimensionalmodel of the stressmeasure-ment process is conducted to determine the recovery stress onthe pressure transducer The transducer which is adhered tothe borehole by elastic grout layer is thought to be hollow andelastic The cross sections of the transducer grout layer andthe borehole are circular and concentric shown in Figure 3The interfaces between the rock and the grout layer andbetween the grout layer and the transducer are assumed to besmooth The surrounding rocks are homogeneous isotropicand linearly viscoelastic and the lateral pressure coefficient is120582
Regarding the above assumptions the problem is con-sidered as a two-dimensional (2D) infinite viscoelastic planesubjected to a biaxial stress which treats a geometricallysimilar problem with tunnel linings in circular tunnels
P
r
r0
r0
r1
r1
r2
p(t)p(t)
120582P
q(t)
q(t)
Rock Grout layer (t gt t0) Transducer (t gt t0)
Figure 3 Illustration of the radii of the grout layer and the trans-ducer
[24 25] The process of stress measurement can be dividedinto two stages During the first stage spanning fromboreholeexcavation until the time at 119905 = 119905
0 pressure of the
surrounding rock is released and there is no pressure on thegrout layer and the transducer The second stage spans fromthe time of the solidification of the grout at 119905 = 119905
0 onwards
The contact pressures between the rock and the grout layerand between the grout layer and the transducer which willvary with time are assumed as 119901(119905) and 119902(119905) respectively
For such a biaxial plane strain condition a cylindricalcoordinate system (119903 120579 119911) is employed and the in situ stressat infinity (119903 = infin) can be written as follows
120590119903=
119875
2
[(1 + 120582) + (1 minus 120582) cos 2120579]
120590120579=
119875
2
[(1 + 120582) minus (1 minus 120582) cos 2120579]
120591119903120579
= minus
119875
2
(1 minus 120582) sin 2120579
(2)
where 120590119903is the radial stress of the rock 120590
120579is the hoop stress of
the rock 120591119903120579is the shear stress of the rock and119875 is the vertical
in situ stressThe in situ stress can be divided into two parts uniform
part and nonuniform part Correspondingly the contactpressures on the interfaces can also be divided into uniformpart and nonuniform part
119901 (119905) = 1199010(119905) + 119901
1(119905) cos 2120579
119902 (119905) = 1199020(119905) + 119902
1(119905) cos 2120579
(3)
where 1199010(119905) and 119902
0(119905) are contact stresses under uniform
in situ stress and 1199011(119905) cos 2120579 and 119902
1(119905) cos 2120579 are contact
stresses under nonuniform in situ stressAfter the grout is solidified (119905 gt 119905
0) the boundary condi-
tion for this problem is
119906119903119888(1199030 119905) = 119906
119903(1199030 119905)
119906119903119879
(1199031 119905) = 119906
119903119888(1199031 119905)
(4)
where 119906119903 119906119903119888 and 119906
119903119879are the radial displacements in the
rock the grout layer and the transducer respectively 1199030is
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the radius of the borehole and 1199031is the external radius of the
transducer
4 Solution for the Problem
41 The Forms of Solution in Laplace Domain under UniformStress Field According to the correspondence principle theviscoelastic displacement of the rock under uniform in situstress (119875(1+120582)2) at the borehole wall (119903 = 119903
0) can be written
as [24 26]
1199061198750
(1199030 119905) =
1198751199030
4
(1 + 120582) 119869 (119905) (5)
where 119869(119905) is the shear creep compliance andwill be describedin more detail below
The radial displacement of the rock under uniform in situstress after time 119905
0is
Δ1199061198750
(1199030 119905) =
1 + 120582
4
1198751199030Δ119869 (6)
where Δ119869 = 119869(119905 + 1199050) minus 119869(119905
0)
After time 1199050 contact pressures exist on the interface
between the rock and the grout layer Then the total radialdisplacement of the rock at the borehole wall (119903 = 119903
0) can be
written as
1199061199030
(1199030 119905) =
1 + 120582
4
1198751199030Δ119869 minus
1199010(119905) 1199030
21198660
(7)
where 1198660is the shear modulus of the rock
The Laplace transform of a function 119891(119905) is defined as
119891 (119904) = int
infin
0
119891 (119905) 119890minus119904119905
119889119905 (8)
where 119904 is the transform parameter and the inverse Laplacetransform is expressed by
119871minus1
[119891 (119904)] = 119891 (119905) =
1
2120587119894
int
120573+119894infin
120573minus119894infin
119891 (119904) 119890119904119905119889119905 (9)
The Laplace transform of (7) gives rise to
1199061199030
(1199030 119905) =
1 + 120582
4
1198751199030Δ119869 minus
1199010(119904) 1199030
21198660(119904)
(10)
The grout layer is thought to be linear elastic and 119866119888
120583119888are the shear modulus and Poissonrsquos ratio respectively
The radial displacements of the grout layer under contactpressures (119901
0(119905) and 119902
0(119905)) in the Laplace domain at 119903 = 119903
0
and 119903 = 1199031 are
1199061198880
(1199030 119904) =
1199010(119904) 1199030
2119866119888
1198981198880
minus
1199020(119904) 1199030
2119866119888
1198991198880
1199061198880
(1199031 119904) =
1199010(119904) 1199030
2119866119888
1198981015840
1198880minus
1199020(119904) 1199030
2119866119888
1198991015840
1198880
(11)
where
1198981198880
=
1199032
1+ (1 minus 2120583
119888) 1199032
0
1199032
0minus 1199032
1
1198991198880
=
1199032
1(2 minus 2120583
119888)
1199032
0minus 1199032
1
1198981015840
1198880=
1199032
0(2 minus 2120583
119888)
1199032
0minus 1199032
1
1198991015840
1198880=
1199032
0+ (1 minus 2120583
119888) 1199032
1
1199032
0minus 1199032
1
(12)
are constant coefficients of parameters 1199030 1199031 and 120583
119888
The radial displacement of the transducer on the inter-faces between the grout layer and the transducer (119903 = 119903
1) in
Laplace domain is
1199061198790
(1199031 119904) =
1199020(119904) 1199031
2119866119879
1198981198790
(13)
where119866119879 120583119879are the shear elasticmodulus and Poissonrsquos ratio
of the transducer respectively and
1198981198790
=
1199032
2+ (1 minus 2120583
119879) 1199032
1
1199032
1minus 1199032
2
(14)
is a constant coefficient of parameters 1199031 1199032 and 120583
119879
42 The Forms of Solution in Laplace Domain under Nonuni-form Stress Field To simplify the solution of this problemthe Poissonrsquos ratio of the rock 120583
0is assumed to be a constant
and then the total radial displacement of the rock undernonuniform stress field at the borehole wall (119903 = 119903
0) in the
Laplace domain is
1199061199031
(1199030 119904) =
1 minus 120582
4
(3 minus 41205830) 1198751199030Δ119869
minus
1199011(119904) 1199030
61198660(119904)
(5 minus 61205830) cos 2120579
(15)
The Laplace transform of the radial displacement of thegrout layer on the interface (119903 = 119903
0and 119903 = 119903
1) under
nonuniform contact pressures can be written as
1199061198881
(1199030 119904) =
1199011(119904) 1199030
2119866119888
1198981198881cos 2120579 minus
1199021(119904) 1199030
2119866119888
1198991198881cos 2120579
1199061198881
(1199031 119904) =
1199011(119904) 1199031
2119866119888
1198981015840
1198881cos 2120579 minus
1199021(119904) 1199031
2119866119888
1198991015840
1198881cos 2120579
(16)
Define
1198981198881
= 1198911198881
minus 1198911198885119903minus4
0+ 212058311988811989111988831199032
0minus 2 (1 minus 120583
119888) 1198911198887119903minus2
0
1198991198881
= 1198911198882
minus 1198911198886119903minus4
0+ 212058311988811989111988841199032
0minus 2 (1 minus 120583
119888) 1198911198888119903minus2
0
1198981015840
1198881= 1198911198881
minus 1198911198885119903minus4
1+ 212058311988811989111988831199032
1minus 2 (1 minus 120583
119888) 1198911198887119903minus2
1
1198991015840
1198881= 1198911198882
minus 1198911198886119903minus4
1+ 212058311988811989111988841199032
1minus 2 (1 minus 120583
119888) 1198911198888119903minus2
1
1198911198881
=
1199036
0+ 1199034
01199032
1+ 21199032
01199034
1
(1199032
0minus 1199032
1)3
1198911198882
=
21199034
01199032
1+ 1199032
01199034
1+ 1199036
1
(1199032
0minus 1199032
1)3
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 5
1198911198883
= minus
1199034
0+ 31199032
01199032
1
3 (1199032
0minus 1199032
1)3
1198911198884
= minus
31199032
01199032
1+ 1199034
1
3 (1199032
0minus 1199032
1)3
1198911198885
=
31199036
01199034
1+ 1199034
01199036
1
3 (1199032
0minus 1199032
1)3
1198911198886
=
1199036
01199034
1+ 31199034
01199036
1
3 (1199032
0minus 1199032
1)3
1198911198887
= minus
21199036
01199032
1+ 1199034
01199034
1+ 1199032
01199036
1
(1199032
0minus 1199032
1)3
1198911198888
= minus
1199036
01199032
1+ 1199034
01199034
1+ 21199032
01199036
1
(1199032
0minus 1199032
1)3
(17)
The Laplace transform of the radial displacement of thetransducer on the interface (119903 = 119903
1) under nonuniform
contact pressure is expressed as follows
1199061198791
(1199031 119904) =
1199021(119904) 1199031
2119866119879
1198981198791
cos 2120579 (18)
where
1198981198791
= 1198911198791
minus 1198911198793
119903minus4
1+ 21205831198791198911198792
1199032
1minus 2 (1 minus 120583
119879) 1198911198794
119903minus2
1(19)
with
1198911198791
=
1199036
1+ 1199034
11199032
2+ 21199032
11199034
2
(1199032
1minus 1199032
2)3
1198911198792
= minus
1199034
1+ 31199032
11199032
2
3 (1199032
1minus 1199032
2)3
1198911198793
=
31199036
11199034
2+ 1199034
11199036
2
3 (1199032
1minus 1199032
2)3
1198911198794
= minus
21199036
11199032
2+ 1199034
11199034
2+ 1199032
11199036
2
(1199032
1minus 1199032
2)3
(20)
43 Determination of the Contact Pressures According to theboundary condition (4) the boundary compatibility condi-tions in the Laplace domain are
1199061199030
(1199030 119904) = 119906
1198880(1199030 119904)
1199061199031
(1199030 119904) = 119906
1198881(1199030 119904)
1199061015840
1198880(1199031 119904) = 119906
1198790(1199031 119904)
1199061015840
1198881(1199031 119904) = 119906
1198791(1199031 119904)
(21)
Submitting (10)ndash(18) into (21) the following can be ob-tained
1199010(119904) =
Δ119869
11198660(119904) + ((119866
11987911989811988801198991015840
1198880minus 11986611987911989911988801198981015840
1198880+ 1198661198881198981198790
1198981198880) (1198661198791198991015840
1198880+ 1198661198881198981198790
) 119866119888)
sdot
1 + 120582
2
119875
1199020(119904) =
Δ119869
((1198661198791198661198881198991015840
1198880+ 1198662
1198881198981198790
) 1198661198791198661198881198981015840
1198880) (1119866
0(119904)) + ((119866
11987911989811988801198991015840
1198880minus 11986611987911989911988801198981015840
1198880+ 1198661198881198981198790
1198981198880) 1198661198791198661198881198981015840
1198880)
sdot
1 + 120582
2
119875
1199011(119904) =
(3 minus 41205830) Δ119869
((5 minus 61205830) 3) (1119866
0(119904)) + ((119866
11987911989811988811198991015840
1198881minus 11986611987911989911988811198981015840
1198881+ 1198661198881198981198791
1198981198881) (1198661198791198991015840
1198881+ 1198661198881198981198791
) 119866119888)
sdot
1 minus 120582
2
119875
1199021(119904) =
(3 minus 41205830) Δ119869
((1198661198791198991015840
1198881+ 1198661198881198981198791
) 1198661198791198981015840
1198881) ((5 minus 6120583
0) 3) (1119866
0(119904)) + ((119866
11987911989811988811198991015840
1198881minus 11986611987911989911988811198981015840
1198881+ 1198661198881198981198791
1198981198881) 1198661198791198661198881198981015840
1198881)
sdot
1 minus 120582
2
119875
(22)
44 Analytical Solution for 3-Parameter Solid Model For thetime-dependent behavior of soft or highly jointed rock massor rock mass with high in situ stress the 3-parameter solidmodelmay be commonly employed as shown in Figure 4 theshear creep compliance is written as
119869 (119905) =
1
1198661
+
1
1198662
(1 minus exp(minus
1198662119905
120578
)) (23)
where1198661 1198662are the shear moduli and 120578 is the viscosity coef-
ficientsThe differential equation of 3-parameter solid model can
be written as
1 + 1198753 = 119876
3120574 + 119876
4 (24)
6 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
G1
G2
120578
Figure 4 Sketch of 3-parameter solid model
where
1198753=
120578
1198661+ 1198662
1198763=
11986611198662
1198661+ 1198662
1198764=
1205781198661
1198661+ 1198662
(25)
Then the contact pressure on the transducer can be ob-tained
119902 (119905) = 1199020(119905) + 119902
1(119905) cos 2120579 =
1 + 120582
2
119875(1 minus
119866infin
119866ini)
sdot
exp (minus11986621199050120578)
1198771+ 119866infin1198772
(1 minus exp(minus
1198771+ 11987631198772
11987531198771+ 11987641198772
119905))
+
1 minus 120582
2
(3 minus 41205830) 119875(1 minus
119866infin
119866ini)
sdot
exp (minus11986621199050120578)
1198773+ 119866infin1198774
(1 minus exp(minus
1198773+ 11987631198774
11987531198773+ 11987641198774
119905))
sdot cos 2120579
(26)
where119866infin
= 11986611198662(1198661+1198662) is the long-term shearmodulus
119866ini = 1198661is the initial shear modulus and
1198771=
1198661198791198991015840
1198880+ 1198661198881198981198790
1198661198791198981015840
1198880
1198772=
1198661198791198991015840
1198881+ 1198661198881198981198791
1198661198791198981015840
1198881
5 minus 61205830
3
1198773=
11986611987911989811988801198991015840
1198880minus 11986611987911989911988801198981015840
1198880+ 1198661198881198981198790
1198981198880
1198661198791198661198881198981015840
1198880
1198774=
11986611987911989811988811198991015840
1198881minus 11986611987911989911988811198981015840
1198881+ 1198661198881198981198791
1198981198881
1198661198791198661198881198981015840
1198881
(27)
Paying attention to the analytical expression derived forthe contact pressure on the transducer (119902(119905)) for 3-parametersolid model instead it can be found that the stable contactpressure on the transducer (119902(infin)) is dependent mainly onthe mechanical properties of the rock mass the solidificationtime of the grout (119905
0) and the shear moduli of the grout
layer as shown in (26) With the decrease of the long-term shear modulus of the rock the contact pressure on the
0 200 400 600 800 100000
01
02
03
04
05
06
t (h)
q(t
)1205900
t0 = 0
t0 = 10ht0 = 20ht0 = 50h
t0 = 100ht0 = 200ht0 = 500h
Figure 5 The ratio of the contact pressure (119902(119905)) on the transducerto the in situ stress calculated at 120579 = 0
∘ for various solidificationtimes
transducer increases In order to expound the effects of thegrout solidification time (119905
0) the shear moduli of the grout
and the properties of the rock mass on the contact pressures(119902(119905)) parametric investigations have been presented here
Regarding the geometrical properties of this problem wehave 119903
0= 65mm 119903
1= 55mm 119903
2= 50mm 119875 = 1MPa and
120582 = 12 The values of the mechanical properties are 119866119888
=
4GPa 120583119888= 035 119866
119879= 80GPa and 120583
119879= 025 According to
the experiment tests and back analysis [20 25] the followingvalues can be assumed 119866
1= 2576MPa 119866
2= 1903MPa 120578 =
31671198905MPasdoth and 1205830
= 035 for 3-parameter solid modelFor the sake of explanation the ratio of the contact pressureto the in situ stress will be presented in Figures 5 6 and 7
The solidification time of the grout is assumed to be sevenvalues 0 10 h 20 h 50 h 100 h 200 h and 500 h The generaltrend is that the contact pressures increase gradually andreach stability after a period of time
In Figure 5 it can be found that the contact pressureson the transducer develop to be stable over time When thesolidification time increases the ratio of the stable contactpressure to the in situ stress decreases from 60 to 0 Thusit can be concluded that the less solidification time will bebeneficial for the recovery of the contact pressure on thetransducer
45 Influence of the ShearModulus of the GroutMaterial Theshear modulus of the transducer is a fixed value of 80GPaNine values of the modulus of the grout material (119866
119888) are
selected and the transducer-groutmodulus ratios are 1 1 2 15 1 10 1 25 1 50 1 100 1 200 1 and 500 1 respectivelyThe influence of the shear modulus of the grout material isanalyzed for a solidification time of 119905
0= 10 h
In Figure 6 the results of the ratio of the contact pressures(119902(119905)) on the transducer to the in situ stress calculated at
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 7
0 200 400 600 800 100000
01
02
03
04
05
06
t (h)
q(t
)1205900
Gc GT = 1 1Gc GT = 1 10Gc GT = 1 100Gc GT = 1 2Gc GT = 1 25
Gc GT = 1 200Gc GT = 1 5Gc GT = 1 50Gc GT = 1 500
(a)
0 100 200 300 400 500
025
030
035
040
045
050
055
060
Ratio
of s
tabl
e rec
over
y str
ess t
o in
situ
stre
ss
GTGc
(b)
Figure 6 Results for different shear moduli of the grout material (a) ratio of the contact pressure (119902(119905)) to in situ stress (b) ratio of stablerecovery stress to in situ stress
120579 = 0∘ with different shear moduli of the grout material are
plotted It can be found that the contact pressure increasesgradually and reaches stability after a period of time andthe ratio of the stable recovery pressure on the transducerto the in situ stress first increases and then decreases withthe increase of transducer-grout modulus ratio as shownin Figure 6 When the transducer-grout modulus ratio isbetween 20 1 and 50 1 the stable recovery pressure on thetransducer reaches the maximum value (about 60 of thein situ stress) From these figures it emerges that suitablegroutmaterial is important for transducers to achieve optimalstresses The type of the grout material should be determinedafter the mix proportion test before field application Thegrout material used in the field test should have goodmechanical properties and are made into samples to measurethemechanical parameters in the lab Moreover it is essentialto carry out calibration tests for the transducer using differentgrouting materials before its field application
46 Influence of the Properties of the Rock Mass To illustratethe influence of the properties of the rock mass on therecovery stresses measured by the transducer an example ispresented herein The properties of the grouting material areassumed to be the same with that of rock masses The shearmodulus 119866
1is fixed and 119866
2are assumed to be six different
values and the ratio of the initial modulus 119866ini to the long-termmodulus 119866
infinis 12 15 2 3 5 11 21 and 51 accordingly
The results have been shown in Figure 7In Figure 7(a) it can be found that the recovery stresses
measured by the transducer increase gradually and reachstability after a period of time From Figure 7(b) withthe reduction of the long-term modulus 119866
infin that is the
increase of themodulus ratio1198660119866infin the final recovery stress
increasesWhen themodulus ratio is greater than 10 the finalrecovery stress gradually turns to be stable and is above 90of the initial stress From the figures it emerges that if the rockmass has a better rheological property the recovery stressmeasured by the transducer is more close to the initial stressMoreover in practical measurement the final recovery ratiocan be obtained from the initial long-term modulus ratio1198660119866infinwhich can be calculated through creep experiment of
rockmasses according to the curves in Figure 7(b) and the insitu stress can be evaluated from the final recovery ratio andthe practical measured recovery stresses
5 Field Test
The in situ stressmeasurements were carried out in Pingding-shan Number 1 coal mine situated in Henan Provincenorthern China as shown in Figure 8 The Pingdingshancoalfield is about 38 km long EndashW and 20 km wide NndashS and the coal-bearing sediments are mostly of Permianage mainly comprising sandstone sandy mudstone andcarbonaceous shale besides coals which are overlain by theTertiary andQuaternary deposits [27]The general structuralconfiguration of Pingdingshan coal mine is a series of NWfolds in which the major one is Likou syncline It is a broadand gentle fold appearing as a brush structure converging tothe southeast and diverging to the northwest There are someother secondary folds in this area for example Guozhuanganticline Niuzhuang syncline and Zhugemiao anticline inthe south of Likou syncline and Baishigou anticline Ling-wushan syncline and Xiangxia fault in the north of Likousyncline
8 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
0 200 400 600 800 100000
02
04
06
08
10
t (h)
q(t
)1205900
G1G2 = 1 5G1G2 = 4 1G1G2 = 1 2G1G2 = 10 1
G1G2 = 1 1G1G2 = 20 1G1G2 = 2 1G1G2 = 50 1
(a)
0 10 20 30 40 5001
02
03
04
05
06
07
08
09
10
Fina
l rec
over
y str
ess r
atio
GiniGinfin
(b)
Figure 7 Results for different rock properties (a) ratio of the contact pressure (119902(119905)) to in situ stress (b) ratio of stable recovery stress to insitu stress
Table 1 In situ stress magnitudes by overcoring technique using different elastic parameters at the horizontal borehole
Parameter 1205901
1205902
1205903
119864 (GPa) ] Magnitude (MPa) Azimuth (∘) Dip (∘) Magnitude (MPa) Azimuth (∘) Dip (∘) Magnitude (MPa) Azimuth (∘) Dip (∘)5 031 2292 14556 445 1829 33199 8553 1501 23559 0508 031 3445 14315 507 2720 34827 8440 2266 23336 237
The test site of Pingdingshan Number 1 coal mine islocated at a track-dip tunnel with a vertical buried depthof about 877m the lithology of which is dark gray sandymudstone The in situ stress measurements were carried outin both horizontal and vertical boreholes with 30m in depthand 130mm in diameter The sketch of borehole layout isshown in Figure 9 The horizontal borehole was inclined tothe horizontal plane at 10∘ Before the application of theRSR method overcoring technique was carried out in thehorizontal borehole according to the ISTM standard [28]After overcoring the rock core including the hollow inclusiongaugewas calibrated in the calibration instrument In order toobtain themechanical parametersmore accurately rock coresdrilled from the testing borehole were prepared into standardspecimens with 50mm in diameter and 100mm in lengthThe elastic parameters were determined by several specimensfrom uniaxial compression experiment in lab Then theTDPTs were installed at the overcoring position accordingto the testing procedures of RSR method The appropriategrouting materials were selected after a mix design in the labto make the property of grouting materials close to that ofrock masses
6 Results and Discussion
The overcoring test was first finished in horizontal boreholeat Number 1 coal mine and the curves of microstrain values
versus the overcoring depth were given in Figure 10 Basedon the test of elastic parameters of rock mass the elasticmodulus varies in a range (5GPasim8GPa) and the calculatedin situ stresses using different elastic modulus are shown inTable 1 It can be found that themagnitudes of three principalstress components increase as elastic modulus 119864 increaseswhereas their azimuth and dip angles are maintained nearlythe same Ge and Hou [29] have found that when Poissonrsquosratio ] is constant the magnitudes of three principal stresseswill increase (or decrease) with the increase (or decrease) of119864 Therefore the principal stress magnitudes of overcoringtechnique vary in a range
The monitor of the recovery stresses using TDPTsand temperature changes in both horizontal and verticalboreholes at Pingdingshan Number 1 coal mine has beenrecorded for a period of about 500 days It should be notedthat the calibration coefficients of each sensing face weredetermined by calibration test using the actual groutingmaterial and the influence of the environmental temperatureon the transducer is analyzed and compensated For thesake of brief only the results of horizontal borehole inPingdingshan Number 1 coal mine are shown in Figure 11It is clear that the recovery stress measured by all sensingfaces in different directions increases gradually to be stablealthough the rate of stress recovery decreases with timeAccording to the analytical results of the relationship between
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 9
Syncline
N
Anticline
Normal fault
Reverse fault
Coal mine
Likou syncline
Niuzhuang syncline
Baishigou anticline
Guozhuang anticline
Xiangxia fault
Lingwushan syncline
Guodishan
normal fault
Xiaxian
fault
No 9
No 5
No 7No 2
No 8
No 1
No 10
No 12
No 4
No 6No 11
No 3
Beijing
Test area
Pingdingshan city
150
(km)
Figure 8 Schematic map of the Pingdingshan coal mine [27]
Roadway
Horizontal borehole
Vert
ical
bor
ehol
e
10∘
Depth = 30m diameter = 130mm
Dep
th=30
m d
iam
eter=130
mm
Figure 9 Sketch of the borehole layout
the final recovery stress and initial stress and the ratio ofthe initial modulus to the long-term modulus (119866ini119866infin asymp
18) from experimental tests the final recovery ratio can bedetermined (about 045) Then the initial stresses verticalto each sensing face can be calculated and inserted into the
calculation formulation (1) to obtain the stress tensor in localcoordinate system and the principal stress components inglobal coordinate system can be calculated using coordinatetransformation The results of the magnitude azimuth anddip angle of three principal stresses in both horizontal andvertical boreholes in Pingdingshan Number 1 coal mine arelisted in Table 2 All the test results show that the orientationof the maximum principal stress 120590
1and the minimum stress
1205903is approximately in the horizontal plane and that of the
intermediate principal stress is nearly verticalFrom Tables 1 and 2 it can be found that the princi-
pal stress magnitudes of overcoring vary in a range whenselecting different elastic parameters and the results of RSRmethod are within this range The orientations of principalstresses by both overcoring technique and RSR method aredrawn in the stereographic projection shown in Figure 11Thedominant orientations of the maximum principal stress arealmost the same for both the overcoring technique and RSRmethod Pingdingshan region has experienced three obvioustectonic movements in the geologic history the Indosinianmovement during theTriassic period theYanshanmovementduring the Mesozoic period and the Himalayan movementduring the Neozoic period Accordingly the direction of themajor principle stress in this region has shifted from NE-SW
10 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Table 2 In situ stress magnitudes by RSR method at the horizontal and vertical boreholes
Boreholeposition
1205901
1205902
1205903
Magnitude (MPa) Azimuth (∘) Dip (∘) Magnitude (MPa) Azimuth (∘) Dip (∘) Magnitude (MPa) Azimuth (∘) Dip (∘)Horizontal 2821 14887 378 2050 30664 8592 1780 5877 154Vertical 3056 1096 1511 2142 4583 7484 1994 1929 117
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
0
1000
2000
3000
4000
5000
6000
Mic
rostr
ain
valu
e
Overcoring depth (cm)
Channel 1 Channel 7Channel 2 Channel 8Channel 3 Channel 9Channel 4 Channel 10Channel 5 Channel 11Channel 6 Channel 12
minus1000
Figure 10 Stress relief curves during the overcoring of horizontalborehole at Number 1 coal mine
to NW-SE then to approximately EW [30] Figure 12 showsthat the major principle stress directions of testing pointsare mostly NW-SE and agree with those in the second andthird tectonicmovements which reveals that the in situ stressfield at present is caused primarily by the latter two tectonicmovements Therefore it can be said that the result from theRSR method is reliable and the new method for in situ stressmeasurement can be used to measure rock stresses
Through the practical application of the overcoring tech-nique and RSR method for in situ stress measurement inPingdingshan Number 1 coal mine it can be found that theRSR method may be a maneuverable and effective techniquein deep soft rock The accuracy of elastic parameters has agreat influence on the calculated results of stress magnitudesand orientations for overcoring technique However theexact elastic parameters of rockmass seemnot very necessaryfor RSRmethod with respect to conventional methods In theRSRmethod the stress values in different orientations can bemeasured by the pressure transducer directly and can be usedto calculate the stress tensor The accuracy of stress valuesis dependent on the calibration factor of the transducer thatcan be obtained from calibration test Based on the results ofcurrent research [31] the variation of the elastic modulus ofsurrounding material has little influence on the calibrationfactor when the elastic modulus ratio of the transducer to
0 100 200 300 400 500
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
1234
56Temperature
Time (day)Re
cove
ry st
ress
(MPa
)
10
15
20
25
30
35
Tem
pera
ture
(∘C)
Figure 11 Stress recovery process in the horizontal borehole ofPingdingshan Number 1 coal mine
the surrounding material is large enough Therefore the truerock stresses can be inferred by the rough elastic parametersThe measuring errors of RSR method caused by the elasticparameters are less than that of the conventional methods
For the RSR method the main requirement of rock massis good in rheological property Moreover the greater thedepth of testing site the better as the in situ stress at greaterdepth is generally bigger In addition the grouting qualityis very important for the RSR method and the groutingshould be accomplished as soon as possible after drilling thehole The different lateral pressure coefficient may have aninfluence on the stress values measured by the transducerwhich is caused by the difference between the transducer andsurroundingmaterialThrough the model test and numericalsimulation it has been found that the measured stresses werelinear to the loading stresses for the hydrostatic stress loadingand the measured stresses were linear to both the loadingstresses in the same direction and the differential stressesof the other two directions for the nonhydrostatic stressloading [32] The actual stress values on each sensing facecan be deduced by the combination of calibration coefficientsand the measured stress values although the lateral pressurecoefficient 120582 is unknown
The transducers that the RSRmethod uses can be embed-ded not only in the initial stress area to obtain themagnitudesof original stress but also in the excavation damage zone tomonitor the stress state variation It has been found that the
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 11
N
Max mid and min principal stresses of horizontal borehole by RSRMax mid and min principal stresses of vertical borehole by RSR
Max mid and min principal stresses of E = 5GPa by overcoringMax mid and min principal stresses of E = 8GPa by overcoring
Figure 12 Orientations of principal stresses by both overcoring technique and RSR method
stressmeter that is installed in a specimen under loadwill pickup the absolute ambient stress in the host when observed overa period of time concurrently it responded immediately toan increase of stress generated in the host after the time of itsinsertion [33]
The RSR method is used to measure the in situ stressbased on the rheological behavior of rock the longer themonitoring time is therefore the more precise the resultsbecome However further research is needed to see how tocalculate the stress state of one point through monitoring ina short time for engineering applications
7 Conclusions
For the measurement of the stress in deep soft rock a RSRmethod to determine the orientations and magnitudes of 3Din situ stress is proposed as well as its test equipment andprocess and analytical solutions were derived to analyze thecharacteristics of this method Then the RSR method aswell as overcoring technique was conducted in PingdingshanNumber 1 coal mine to measure both the in situ stressorientation and magnitude at a depth of 877m The resultsare summarized as follows
If the rock mass has a better rheological property therecovery stress measured by the transducer is more close tothe initial stress Moreover the grouting quality should beensured that the properties of grouting materials should beclose to that of rock masses in actual operation
These results tested by RSR method and overcoringtechnique are basically in the same order which validatesthat the RSR method is a useful method for deep soft rockmasses The major principal stresses are approximately in
the direction of NW-SE which correlates well with thestress regime of Pingdingshan zone known from the tectonicmovement history
The RSR method can be used to obtain more reliabledata when stress relief method cannot be applied in soft orhighly jointed rock masses under great depth Therefore itcan be said that the RSRmethodmay bewell suitable formorecomplicated geological conditions However more studiesare required to see how to calculate the stress state of onepoint through monitoring in a short time for engineeringapplications
Conflict of Interests
The authors declare that there is no conflict of interestsregarding the publication of this paper
Acknowledgments
This work is supported by the National Basic Research Pro-gram of China (ldquo973rdquo Program) (Grant no 2014CB046904)and theNationalNatural Science Foundation ofChina (Grantnos 41130742 and 11302242)
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2 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Sensing faces
(a)
Pushrod
Triangle pulley
Goniometer
(b)
Explosion-proofenclosure
Data logger
TDPT
(c)
Figure 1 Test equipment of RSR method (a) TDPTs (b) pushrod and the goniometer (c) explosion-proof data logger
equipment calculation equations and related procedures ofRSR method will be briefly introduced Then the measuringprocess is analyzed by analytical solutions to explore theapplicability and accuracy of this method Finally the RSRmethod as well as overcoring technique was conducted inPingdingshanNumber 1 coalmine tomeasure both the in situstress orientation and magnitude at a depth of 877m
2 An Outline of RSR Method
21 Basic Principles A large number of field monitoring andlaboratory tests [20 21] have shown that rheological proper-ties of soft rocks are very significant under high geostressEven for hard rock mass that is cut by several joints and frac-tures creep deformation can also attain considerable mag-nitude [22] Thus a borehole will shrink gradually to beclosed under high geostress due to the rheological charac-teristic of soft rocks and rock stresses will recover to theinitial stress state with the growth of the time Based onthis stress measurement with RSR method is proposed It issupposed that rock stresses around the pressure transducersthat are embedded in the borehole will recover graduallyand eventually tend to be stable due to the rheologicalcharacteristics of surrounding rocks
22 Main Equipment The equipment used in this methodinvolves pressure transducers push rods with orientationdevice and a data logger shown in Figure 1 A three-dimensional pressure transducer (TDPT) which can mea-sure normal stresses in three directions is developed for insitu stress measurement with RSRmethod (Figure 1(a)) and atest point needs twoTDPTs in different directionsTheTDPTwhich contains three sensing faces (diameter = 58mm) is awaterproof cube structure (side length = 80mm) and suitablefor a pressure up to 30MPa Vibrating wire force transducersare adopted on each sensing face due to the advantages of highaccuracy and repeatability possibility for remote measuringdigitalization of results long service stability [23] and so
forth Eight corners of the TDPT have been cut out for therequirements of miniaturizationThe pushrod is used to sendthe transducers to the test point and the rotation angles ofthe transducer are recorded by the goniometer in order tocalculate the azimuth angle of each sensing face The datalogger is developed through explosion-proof design to meetthe requirement of coal mine shown in Figure 1(c)
23 Testing Procedures The RSR method for measuringthe stress in deep soft rocks comprises the following steps(Figure 2)
(1) A borehole is drilled till the test point in surroundingrocks of a soft rock tunnel
(2) Stress transducers are fixed on a connecting rod andsent to the test point a direction cosine of any twosensing faces in the normal direction is recorded andis not 1 a normal stress measuring device is mountedon each sensing face and connected with a data loggeroutside the borehole through long cables
(3) Grouting is carried out on the drilling hole and theborehole is sealed after being entirely filled
(4) After the grout is solidified pressure values arecontinually read from the data logger and six stressvalues are substituted into the calculation equationsafter the values are stable so as to obtain 3D rockstress at the test point With the adoption of thismethod evolutional stress data of the test point canbe also obtained Moreover the spatial variation andevolution of rock stress state can bemeasured througha series of pressure transducers embedded in differentdepth of the borehole
24 Calculation Equations A spatial coordinate system 119900119909119910119911
is established by taking normal directions of three mutu-ally perpendicular sensing faces as directions of coordinateaxes and 119909
1015840- 1199101015840- and 119911
1015840-axis are normal directions of
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 3
Grout
TDPTsPushrods
Borehole
Tunnel
Data logger
Cables
Figure 2 Sketch of stress measurement process with RSR method
other sensing faces 120590119909 120590119910 120590119911 1205901015840
119909 1205901015840
119910 1205901015840
119911are normal stresses
measured by each sensing face respectively The stress state(120590119909 120590119910 120590119911 120591119909119910 120591119910119911 120591119911119909) of the test point under the coordinate
system 119900119909119910119911 can be calculated through
1205901015840
119909= 1198972
1120590119909+ 1198982
1120590119910+ 1198992
1120590119911+ 211989711198981120591119909119910
+ 211989811198991120591119910119911
+ 211989911198971120591119911119909
1205901015840
119910= 1198972
2120590119909+ 1198982
2120590119910+ 1198992
2120590119911+ 211989721198982120591119909119910
+ 211989821198992120591119910119911
+ 211989921198972120591119910119911
1205901015840
119911= 1198972
3120590119909+ 1198982
3120590119910+ 1198992
3120590119911+ 211989731198983120591119909119910
+ 211989831198993120591119910119911
+ 211989931198973120591119910119911
(1)
where 120591119909119910 120591119910119911 and 120591
119911119909are shear stress components under the
coordinate system 119900119909119910119911 1198971 1198972 and 119897
3 respectively represent
direction cosines between 1199091015840- 1199101015840- and 119911
1015840-axis and 119909-axis1198981 1198982 and 119898
3 respectively represent direction cosines
between 1199091015840- 1199101015840- and 119911
1015840-axis and 119910-axis and 1198991 1198992 and 119899
3
respectively represent direction cosines between 1199091015840- 1199101015840- and
1199111015840-axis and 119911-axis
3 Definition of the Problem
In this paper a two-dimensionalmodel of the stressmeasure-ment process is conducted to determine the recovery stress onthe pressure transducer The transducer which is adhered tothe borehole by elastic grout layer is thought to be hollow andelastic The cross sections of the transducer grout layer andthe borehole are circular and concentric shown in Figure 3The interfaces between the rock and the grout layer andbetween the grout layer and the transducer are assumed to besmooth The surrounding rocks are homogeneous isotropicand linearly viscoelastic and the lateral pressure coefficient is120582
Regarding the above assumptions the problem is con-sidered as a two-dimensional (2D) infinite viscoelastic planesubjected to a biaxial stress which treats a geometricallysimilar problem with tunnel linings in circular tunnels
P
r
r0
r0
r1
r1
r2
p(t)p(t)
120582P
q(t)
q(t)
Rock Grout layer (t gt t0) Transducer (t gt t0)
Figure 3 Illustration of the radii of the grout layer and the trans-ducer
[24 25] The process of stress measurement can be dividedinto two stages During the first stage spanning fromboreholeexcavation until the time at 119905 = 119905
0 pressure of the
surrounding rock is released and there is no pressure on thegrout layer and the transducer The second stage spans fromthe time of the solidification of the grout at 119905 = 119905
0 onwards
The contact pressures between the rock and the grout layerand between the grout layer and the transducer which willvary with time are assumed as 119901(119905) and 119902(119905) respectively
For such a biaxial plane strain condition a cylindricalcoordinate system (119903 120579 119911) is employed and the in situ stressat infinity (119903 = infin) can be written as follows
120590119903=
119875
2
[(1 + 120582) + (1 minus 120582) cos 2120579]
120590120579=
119875
2
[(1 + 120582) minus (1 minus 120582) cos 2120579]
120591119903120579
= minus
119875
2
(1 minus 120582) sin 2120579
(2)
where 120590119903is the radial stress of the rock 120590
120579is the hoop stress of
the rock 120591119903120579is the shear stress of the rock and119875 is the vertical
in situ stressThe in situ stress can be divided into two parts uniform
part and nonuniform part Correspondingly the contactpressures on the interfaces can also be divided into uniformpart and nonuniform part
119901 (119905) = 1199010(119905) + 119901
1(119905) cos 2120579
119902 (119905) = 1199020(119905) + 119902
1(119905) cos 2120579
(3)
where 1199010(119905) and 119902
0(119905) are contact stresses under uniform
in situ stress and 1199011(119905) cos 2120579 and 119902
1(119905) cos 2120579 are contact
stresses under nonuniform in situ stressAfter the grout is solidified (119905 gt 119905
0) the boundary condi-
tion for this problem is
119906119903119888(1199030 119905) = 119906
119903(1199030 119905)
119906119903119879
(1199031 119905) = 119906
119903119888(1199031 119905)
(4)
where 119906119903 119906119903119888 and 119906
119903119879are the radial displacements in the
rock the grout layer and the transducer respectively 1199030is
4 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
the radius of the borehole and 1199031is the external radius of the
transducer
4 Solution for the Problem
41 The Forms of Solution in Laplace Domain under UniformStress Field According to the correspondence principle theviscoelastic displacement of the rock under uniform in situstress (119875(1+120582)2) at the borehole wall (119903 = 119903
0) can be written
as [24 26]
1199061198750
(1199030 119905) =
1198751199030
4
(1 + 120582) 119869 (119905) (5)
where 119869(119905) is the shear creep compliance andwill be describedin more detail below
The radial displacement of the rock under uniform in situstress after time 119905
0is
Δ1199061198750
(1199030 119905) =
1 + 120582
4
1198751199030Δ119869 (6)
where Δ119869 = 119869(119905 + 1199050) minus 119869(119905
0)
After time 1199050 contact pressures exist on the interface
between the rock and the grout layer Then the total radialdisplacement of the rock at the borehole wall (119903 = 119903
0) can be
written as
1199061199030
(1199030 119905) =
1 + 120582
4
1198751199030Δ119869 minus
1199010(119905) 1199030
21198660
(7)
where 1198660is the shear modulus of the rock
The Laplace transform of a function 119891(119905) is defined as
119891 (119904) = int
infin
0
119891 (119905) 119890minus119904119905
119889119905 (8)
where 119904 is the transform parameter and the inverse Laplacetransform is expressed by
119871minus1
[119891 (119904)] = 119891 (119905) =
1
2120587119894
int
120573+119894infin
120573minus119894infin
119891 (119904) 119890119904119905119889119905 (9)
The Laplace transform of (7) gives rise to
1199061199030
(1199030 119905) =
1 + 120582
4
1198751199030Δ119869 minus
1199010(119904) 1199030
21198660(119904)
(10)
The grout layer is thought to be linear elastic and 119866119888
120583119888are the shear modulus and Poissonrsquos ratio respectively
The radial displacements of the grout layer under contactpressures (119901
0(119905) and 119902
0(119905)) in the Laplace domain at 119903 = 119903
0
and 119903 = 1199031 are
1199061198880
(1199030 119904) =
1199010(119904) 1199030
2119866119888
1198981198880
minus
1199020(119904) 1199030
2119866119888
1198991198880
1199061198880
(1199031 119904) =
1199010(119904) 1199030
2119866119888
1198981015840
1198880minus
1199020(119904) 1199030
2119866119888
1198991015840
1198880
(11)
where
1198981198880
=
1199032
1+ (1 minus 2120583
119888) 1199032
0
1199032
0minus 1199032
1
1198991198880
=
1199032
1(2 minus 2120583
119888)
1199032
0minus 1199032
1
1198981015840
1198880=
1199032
0(2 minus 2120583
119888)
1199032
0minus 1199032
1
1198991015840
1198880=
1199032
0+ (1 minus 2120583
119888) 1199032
1
1199032
0minus 1199032
1
(12)
are constant coefficients of parameters 1199030 1199031 and 120583
119888
The radial displacement of the transducer on the inter-faces between the grout layer and the transducer (119903 = 119903
1) in
Laplace domain is
1199061198790
(1199031 119904) =
1199020(119904) 1199031
2119866119879
1198981198790
(13)
where119866119879 120583119879are the shear elasticmodulus and Poissonrsquos ratio
of the transducer respectively and
1198981198790
=
1199032
2+ (1 minus 2120583
119879) 1199032
1
1199032
1minus 1199032
2
(14)
is a constant coefficient of parameters 1199031 1199032 and 120583
119879
42 The Forms of Solution in Laplace Domain under Nonuni-form Stress Field To simplify the solution of this problemthe Poissonrsquos ratio of the rock 120583
0is assumed to be a constant
and then the total radial displacement of the rock undernonuniform stress field at the borehole wall (119903 = 119903
0) in the
Laplace domain is
1199061199031
(1199030 119904) =
1 minus 120582
4
(3 minus 41205830) 1198751199030Δ119869
minus
1199011(119904) 1199030
61198660(119904)
(5 minus 61205830) cos 2120579
(15)
The Laplace transform of the radial displacement of thegrout layer on the interface (119903 = 119903
0and 119903 = 119903
1) under
nonuniform contact pressures can be written as
1199061198881
(1199030 119904) =
1199011(119904) 1199030
2119866119888
1198981198881cos 2120579 minus
1199021(119904) 1199030
2119866119888
1198991198881cos 2120579
1199061198881
(1199031 119904) =
1199011(119904) 1199031
2119866119888
1198981015840
1198881cos 2120579 minus
1199021(119904) 1199031
2119866119888
1198991015840
1198881cos 2120579
(16)
Define
1198981198881
= 1198911198881
minus 1198911198885119903minus4
0+ 212058311988811989111988831199032
0minus 2 (1 minus 120583
119888) 1198911198887119903minus2
0
1198991198881
= 1198911198882
minus 1198911198886119903minus4
0+ 212058311988811989111988841199032
0minus 2 (1 minus 120583
119888) 1198911198888119903minus2
0
1198981015840
1198881= 1198911198881
minus 1198911198885119903minus4
1+ 212058311988811989111988831199032
1minus 2 (1 minus 120583
119888) 1198911198887119903minus2
1
1198991015840
1198881= 1198911198882
minus 1198911198886119903minus4
1+ 212058311988811989111988841199032
1minus 2 (1 minus 120583
119888) 1198911198888119903minus2
1
1198911198881
=
1199036
0+ 1199034
01199032
1+ 21199032
01199034
1
(1199032
0minus 1199032
1)3
1198911198882
=
21199034
01199032
1+ 1199032
01199034
1+ 1199036
1
(1199032
0minus 1199032
1)3
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 5
1198911198883
= minus
1199034
0+ 31199032
01199032
1
3 (1199032
0minus 1199032
1)3
1198911198884
= minus
31199032
01199032
1+ 1199034
1
3 (1199032
0minus 1199032
1)3
1198911198885
=
31199036
01199034
1+ 1199034
01199036
1
3 (1199032
0minus 1199032
1)3
1198911198886
=
1199036
01199034
1+ 31199034
01199036
1
3 (1199032
0minus 1199032
1)3
1198911198887
= minus
21199036
01199032
1+ 1199034
01199034
1+ 1199032
01199036
1
(1199032
0minus 1199032
1)3
1198911198888
= minus
1199036
01199032
1+ 1199034
01199034
1+ 21199032
01199036
1
(1199032
0minus 1199032
1)3
(17)
The Laplace transform of the radial displacement of thetransducer on the interface (119903 = 119903
1) under nonuniform
contact pressure is expressed as follows
1199061198791
(1199031 119904) =
1199021(119904) 1199031
2119866119879
1198981198791
cos 2120579 (18)
where
1198981198791
= 1198911198791
minus 1198911198793
119903minus4
1+ 21205831198791198911198792
1199032
1minus 2 (1 minus 120583
119879) 1198911198794
119903minus2
1(19)
with
1198911198791
=
1199036
1+ 1199034
11199032
2+ 21199032
11199034
2
(1199032
1minus 1199032
2)3
1198911198792
= minus
1199034
1+ 31199032
11199032
2
3 (1199032
1minus 1199032
2)3
1198911198793
=
31199036
11199034
2+ 1199034
11199036
2
3 (1199032
1minus 1199032
2)3
1198911198794
= minus
21199036
11199032
2+ 1199034
11199034
2+ 1199032
11199036
2
(1199032
1minus 1199032
2)3
(20)
43 Determination of the Contact Pressures According to theboundary condition (4) the boundary compatibility condi-tions in the Laplace domain are
1199061199030
(1199030 119904) = 119906
1198880(1199030 119904)
1199061199031
(1199030 119904) = 119906
1198881(1199030 119904)
1199061015840
1198880(1199031 119904) = 119906
1198790(1199031 119904)
1199061015840
1198881(1199031 119904) = 119906
1198791(1199031 119904)
(21)
Submitting (10)ndash(18) into (21) the following can be ob-tained
1199010(119904) =
Δ119869
11198660(119904) + ((119866
11987911989811988801198991015840
1198880minus 11986611987911989911988801198981015840
1198880+ 1198661198881198981198790
1198981198880) (1198661198791198991015840
1198880+ 1198661198881198981198790
) 119866119888)
sdot
1 + 120582
2
119875
1199020(119904) =
Δ119869
((1198661198791198661198881198991015840
1198880+ 1198662
1198881198981198790
) 1198661198791198661198881198981015840
1198880) (1119866
0(119904)) + ((119866
11987911989811988801198991015840
1198880minus 11986611987911989911988801198981015840
1198880+ 1198661198881198981198790
1198981198880) 1198661198791198661198881198981015840
1198880)
sdot
1 + 120582
2
119875
1199011(119904) =
(3 minus 41205830) Δ119869
((5 minus 61205830) 3) (1119866
0(119904)) + ((119866
11987911989811988811198991015840
1198881minus 11986611987911989911988811198981015840
1198881+ 1198661198881198981198791
1198981198881) (1198661198791198991015840
1198881+ 1198661198881198981198791
) 119866119888)
sdot
1 minus 120582
2
119875
1199021(119904) =
(3 minus 41205830) Δ119869
((1198661198791198991015840
1198881+ 1198661198881198981198791
) 1198661198791198981015840
1198881) ((5 minus 6120583
0) 3) (1119866
0(119904)) + ((119866
11987911989811988811198991015840
1198881minus 11986611987911989911988811198981015840
1198881+ 1198661198881198981198791
1198981198881) 1198661198791198661198881198981015840
1198881)
sdot
1 minus 120582
2
119875
(22)
44 Analytical Solution for 3-Parameter Solid Model For thetime-dependent behavior of soft or highly jointed rock massor rock mass with high in situ stress the 3-parameter solidmodelmay be commonly employed as shown in Figure 4 theshear creep compliance is written as
119869 (119905) =
1
1198661
+
1
1198662
(1 minus exp(minus
1198662119905
120578
)) (23)
where1198661 1198662are the shear moduli and 120578 is the viscosity coef-
ficientsThe differential equation of 3-parameter solid model can
be written as
1 + 1198753 = 119876
3120574 + 119876
4 (24)
6 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
G1
G2
120578
Figure 4 Sketch of 3-parameter solid model
where
1198753=
120578
1198661+ 1198662
1198763=
11986611198662
1198661+ 1198662
1198764=
1205781198661
1198661+ 1198662
(25)
Then the contact pressure on the transducer can be ob-tained
119902 (119905) = 1199020(119905) + 119902
1(119905) cos 2120579 =
1 + 120582
2
119875(1 minus
119866infin
119866ini)
sdot
exp (minus11986621199050120578)
1198771+ 119866infin1198772
(1 minus exp(minus
1198771+ 11987631198772
11987531198771+ 11987641198772
119905))
+
1 minus 120582
2
(3 minus 41205830) 119875(1 minus
119866infin
119866ini)
sdot
exp (minus11986621199050120578)
1198773+ 119866infin1198774
(1 minus exp(minus
1198773+ 11987631198774
11987531198773+ 11987641198774
119905))
sdot cos 2120579
(26)
where119866infin
= 11986611198662(1198661+1198662) is the long-term shearmodulus
119866ini = 1198661is the initial shear modulus and
1198771=
1198661198791198991015840
1198880+ 1198661198881198981198790
1198661198791198981015840
1198880
1198772=
1198661198791198991015840
1198881+ 1198661198881198981198791
1198661198791198981015840
1198881
5 minus 61205830
3
1198773=
11986611987911989811988801198991015840
1198880minus 11986611987911989911988801198981015840
1198880+ 1198661198881198981198790
1198981198880
1198661198791198661198881198981015840
1198880
1198774=
11986611987911989811988811198991015840
1198881minus 11986611987911989911988811198981015840
1198881+ 1198661198881198981198791
1198981198881
1198661198791198661198881198981015840
1198881
(27)
Paying attention to the analytical expression derived forthe contact pressure on the transducer (119902(119905)) for 3-parametersolid model instead it can be found that the stable contactpressure on the transducer (119902(infin)) is dependent mainly onthe mechanical properties of the rock mass the solidificationtime of the grout (119905
0) and the shear moduli of the grout
layer as shown in (26) With the decrease of the long-term shear modulus of the rock the contact pressure on the
0 200 400 600 800 100000
01
02
03
04
05
06
t (h)
q(t
)1205900
t0 = 0
t0 = 10ht0 = 20ht0 = 50h
t0 = 100ht0 = 200ht0 = 500h
Figure 5 The ratio of the contact pressure (119902(119905)) on the transducerto the in situ stress calculated at 120579 = 0
∘ for various solidificationtimes
transducer increases In order to expound the effects of thegrout solidification time (119905
0) the shear moduli of the grout
and the properties of the rock mass on the contact pressures(119902(119905)) parametric investigations have been presented here
Regarding the geometrical properties of this problem wehave 119903
0= 65mm 119903
1= 55mm 119903
2= 50mm 119875 = 1MPa and
120582 = 12 The values of the mechanical properties are 119866119888
=
4GPa 120583119888= 035 119866
119879= 80GPa and 120583
119879= 025 According to
the experiment tests and back analysis [20 25] the followingvalues can be assumed 119866
1= 2576MPa 119866
2= 1903MPa 120578 =
31671198905MPasdoth and 1205830
= 035 for 3-parameter solid modelFor the sake of explanation the ratio of the contact pressureto the in situ stress will be presented in Figures 5 6 and 7
The solidification time of the grout is assumed to be sevenvalues 0 10 h 20 h 50 h 100 h 200 h and 500 h The generaltrend is that the contact pressures increase gradually andreach stability after a period of time
In Figure 5 it can be found that the contact pressureson the transducer develop to be stable over time When thesolidification time increases the ratio of the stable contactpressure to the in situ stress decreases from 60 to 0 Thusit can be concluded that the less solidification time will bebeneficial for the recovery of the contact pressure on thetransducer
45 Influence of the ShearModulus of the GroutMaterial Theshear modulus of the transducer is a fixed value of 80GPaNine values of the modulus of the grout material (119866
119888) are
selected and the transducer-groutmodulus ratios are 1 1 2 15 1 10 1 25 1 50 1 100 1 200 1 and 500 1 respectivelyThe influence of the shear modulus of the grout material isanalyzed for a solidification time of 119905
0= 10 h
In Figure 6 the results of the ratio of the contact pressures(119902(119905)) on the transducer to the in situ stress calculated at
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 7
0 200 400 600 800 100000
01
02
03
04
05
06
t (h)
q(t
)1205900
Gc GT = 1 1Gc GT = 1 10Gc GT = 1 100Gc GT = 1 2Gc GT = 1 25
Gc GT = 1 200Gc GT = 1 5Gc GT = 1 50Gc GT = 1 500
(a)
0 100 200 300 400 500
025
030
035
040
045
050
055
060
Ratio
of s
tabl
e rec
over
y str
ess t
o in
situ
stre
ss
GTGc
(b)
Figure 6 Results for different shear moduli of the grout material (a) ratio of the contact pressure (119902(119905)) to in situ stress (b) ratio of stablerecovery stress to in situ stress
120579 = 0∘ with different shear moduli of the grout material are
plotted It can be found that the contact pressure increasesgradually and reaches stability after a period of time andthe ratio of the stable recovery pressure on the transducerto the in situ stress first increases and then decreases withthe increase of transducer-grout modulus ratio as shownin Figure 6 When the transducer-grout modulus ratio isbetween 20 1 and 50 1 the stable recovery pressure on thetransducer reaches the maximum value (about 60 of thein situ stress) From these figures it emerges that suitablegroutmaterial is important for transducers to achieve optimalstresses The type of the grout material should be determinedafter the mix proportion test before field application Thegrout material used in the field test should have goodmechanical properties and are made into samples to measurethemechanical parameters in the lab Moreover it is essentialto carry out calibration tests for the transducer using differentgrouting materials before its field application
46 Influence of the Properties of the Rock Mass To illustratethe influence of the properties of the rock mass on therecovery stresses measured by the transducer an example ispresented herein The properties of the grouting material areassumed to be the same with that of rock masses The shearmodulus 119866
1is fixed and 119866
2are assumed to be six different
values and the ratio of the initial modulus 119866ini to the long-termmodulus 119866
infinis 12 15 2 3 5 11 21 and 51 accordingly
The results have been shown in Figure 7In Figure 7(a) it can be found that the recovery stresses
measured by the transducer increase gradually and reachstability after a period of time From Figure 7(b) withthe reduction of the long-term modulus 119866
infin that is the
increase of themodulus ratio1198660119866infin the final recovery stress
increasesWhen themodulus ratio is greater than 10 the finalrecovery stress gradually turns to be stable and is above 90of the initial stress From the figures it emerges that if the rockmass has a better rheological property the recovery stressmeasured by the transducer is more close to the initial stressMoreover in practical measurement the final recovery ratiocan be obtained from the initial long-term modulus ratio1198660119866infinwhich can be calculated through creep experiment of
rockmasses according to the curves in Figure 7(b) and the insitu stress can be evaluated from the final recovery ratio andthe practical measured recovery stresses
5 Field Test
The in situ stressmeasurements were carried out in Pingding-shan Number 1 coal mine situated in Henan Provincenorthern China as shown in Figure 8 The Pingdingshancoalfield is about 38 km long EndashW and 20 km wide NndashS and the coal-bearing sediments are mostly of Permianage mainly comprising sandstone sandy mudstone andcarbonaceous shale besides coals which are overlain by theTertiary andQuaternary deposits [27]The general structuralconfiguration of Pingdingshan coal mine is a series of NWfolds in which the major one is Likou syncline It is a broadand gentle fold appearing as a brush structure converging tothe southeast and diverging to the northwest There are someother secondary folds in this area for example Guozhuanganticline Niuzhuang syncline and Zhugemiao anticline inthe south of Likou syncline and Baishigou anticline Ling-wushan syncline and Xiangxia fault in the north of Likousyncline
8 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
0 200 400 600 800 100000
02
04
06
08
10
t (h)
q(t
)1205900
G1G2 = 1 5G1G2 = 4 1G1G2 = 1 2G1G2 = 10 1
G1G2 = 1 1G1G2 = 20 1G1G2 = 2 1G1G2 = 50 1
(a)
0 10 20 30 40 5001
02
03
04
05
06
07
08
09
10
Fina
l rec
over
y str
ess r
atio
GiniGinfin
(b)
Figure 7 Results for different rock properties (a) ratio of the contact pressure (119902(119905)) to in situ stress (b) ratio of stable recovery stress to insitu stress
Table 1 In situ stress magnitudes by overcoring technique using different elastic parameters at the horizontal borehole
Parameter 1205901
1205902
1205903
119864 (GPa) ] Magnitude (MPa) Azimuth (∘) Dip (∘) Magnitude (MPa) Azimuth (∘) Dip (∘) Magnitude (MPa) Azimuth (∘) Dip (∘)5 031 2292 14556 445 1829 33199 8553 1501 23559 0508 031 3445 14315 507 2720 34827 8440 2266 23336 237
The test site of Pingdingshan Number 1 coal mine islocated at a track-dip tunnel with a vertical buried depthof about 877m the lithology of which is dark gray sandymudstone The in situ stress measurements were carried outin both horizontal and vertical boreholes with 30m in depthand 130mm in diameter The sketch of borehole layout isshown in Figure 9 The horizontal borehole was inclined tothe horizontal plane at 10∘ Before the application of theRSR method overcoring technique was carried out in thehorizontal borehole according to the ISTM standard [28]After overcoring the rock core including the hollow inclusiongaugewas calibrated in the calibration instrument In order toobtain themechanical parametersmore accurately rock coresdrilled from the testing borehole were prepared into standardspecimens with 50mm in diameter and 100mm in lengthThe elastic parameters were determined by several specimensfrom uniaxial compression experiment in lab Then theTDPTs were installed at the overcoring position accordingto the testing procedures of RSR method The appropriategrouting materials were selected after a mix design in the labto make the property of grouting materials close to that ofrock masses
6 Results and Discussion
The overcoring test was first finished in horizontal boreholeat Number 1 coal mine and the curves of microstrain values
versus the overcoring depth were given in Figure 10 Basedon the test of elastic parameters of rock mass the elasticmodulus varies in a range (5GPasim8GPa) and the calculatedin situ stresses using different elastic modulus are shown inTable 1 It can be found that themagnitudes of three principalstress components increase as elastic modulus 119864 increaseswhereas their azimuth and dip angles are maintained nearlythe same Ge and Hou [29] have found that when Poissonrsquosratio ] is constant the magnitudes of three principal stresseswill increase (or decrease) with the increase (or decrease) of119864 Therefore the principal stress magnitudes of overcoringtechnique vary in a range
The monitor of the recovery stresses using TDPTsand temperature changes in both horizontal and verticalboreholes at Pingdingshan Number 1 coal mine has beenrecorded for a period of about 500 days It should be notedthat the calibration coefficients of each sensing face weredetermined by calibration test using the actual groutingmaterial and the influence of the environmental temperatureon the transducer is analyzed and compensated For thesake of brief only the results of horizontal borehole inPingdingshan Number 1 coal mine are shown in Figure 11It is clear that the recovery stress measured by all sensingfaces in different directions increases gradually to be stablealthough the rate of stress recovery decreases with timeAccording to the analytical results of the relationship between
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 9
Syncline
N
Anticline
Normal fault
Reverse fault
Coal mine
Likou syncline
Niuzhuang syncline
Baishigou anticline
Guozhuang anticline
Xiangxia fault
Lingwushan syncline
Guodishan
normal fault
Xiaxian
fault
No 9
No 5
No 7No 2
No 8
No 1
No 10
No 12
No 4
No 6No 11
No 3
Beijing
Test area
Pingdingshan city
150
(km)
Figure 8 Schematic map of the Pingdingshan coal mine [27]
Roadway
Horizontal borehole
Vert
ical
bor
ehol
e
10∘
Depth = 30m diameter = 130mm
Dep
th=30
m d
iam
eter=130
mm
Figure 9 Sketch of the borehole layout
the final recovery stress and initial stress and the ratio ofthe initial modulus to the long-term modulus (119866ini119866infin asymp
18) from experimental tests the final recovery ratio can bedetermined (about 045) Then the initial stresses verticalto each sensing face can be calculated and inserted into the
calculation formulation (1) to obtain the stress tensor in localcoordinate system and the principal stress components inglobal coordinate system can be calculated using coordinatetransformation The results of the magnitude azimuth anddip angle of three principal stresses in both horizontal andvertical boreholes in Pingdingshan Number 1 coal mine arelisted in Table 2 All the test results show that the orientationof the maximum principal stress 120590
1and the minimum stress
1205903is approximately in the horizontal plane and that of the
intermediate principal stress is nearly verticalFrom Tables 1 and 2 it can be found that the princi-
pal stress magnitudes of overcoring vary in a range whenselecting different elastic parameters and the results of RSRmethod are within this range The orientations of principalstresses by both overcoring technique and RSR method aredrawn in the stereographic projection shown in Figure 11Thedominant orientations of the maximum principal stress arealmost the same for both the overcoring technique and RSRmethod Pingdingshan region has experienced three obvioustectonic movements in the geologic history the Indosinianmovement during theTriassic period theYanshanmovementduring the Mesozoic period and the Himalayan movementduring the Neozoic period Accordingly the direction of themajor principle stress in this region has shifted from NE-SW
10 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Table 2 In situ stress magnitudes by RSR method at the horizontal and vertical boreholes
Boreholeposition
1205901
1205902
1205903
Magnitude (MPa) Azimuth (∘) Dip (∘) Magnitude (MPa) Azimuth (∘) Dip (∘) Magnitude (MPa) Azimuth (∘) Dip (∘)Horizontal 2821 14887 378 2050 30664 8592 1780 5877 154Vertical 3056 1096 1511 2142 4583 7484 1994 1929 117
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
0
1000
2000
3000
4000
5000
6000
Mic
rostr
ain
valu
e
Overcoring depth (cm)
Channel 1 Channel 7Channel 2 Channel 8Channel 3 Channel 9Channel 4 Channel 10Channel 5 Channel 11Channel 6 Channel 12
minus1000
Figure 10 Stress relief curves during the overcoring of horizontalborehole at Number 1 coal mine
to NW-SE then to approximately EW [30] Figure 12 showsthat the major principle stress directions of testing pointsare mostly NW-SE and agree with those in the second andthird tectonicmovements which reveals that the in situ stressfield at present is caused primarily by the latter two tectonicmovements Therefore it can be said that the result from theRSR method is reliable and the new method for in situ stressmeasurement can be used to measure rock stresses
Through the practical application of the overcoring tech-nique and RSR method for in situ stress measurement inPingdingshan Number 1 coal mine it can be found that theRSR method may be a maneuverable and effective techniquein deep soft rock The accuracy of elastic parameters has agreat influence on the calculated results of stress magnitudesand orientations for overcoring technique However theexact elastic parameters of rockmass seemnot very necessaryfor RSRmethod with respect to conventional methods In theRSRmethod the stress values in different orientations can bemeasured by the pressure transducer directly and can be usedto calculate the stress tensor The accuracy of stress valuesis dependent on the calibration factor of the transducer thatcan be obtained from calibration test Based on the results ofcurrent research [31] the variation of the elastic modulus ofsurrounding material has little influence on the calibrationfactor when the elastic modulus ratio of the transducer to
0 100 200 300 400 500
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
1234
56Temperature
Time (day)Re
cove
ry st
ress
(MPa
)
10
15
20
25
30
35
Tem
pera
ture
(∘C)
Figure 11 Stress recovery process in the horizontal borehole ofPingdingshan Number 1 coal mine
the surrounding material is large enough Therefore the truerock stresses can be inferred by the rough elastic parametersThe measuring errors of RSR method caused by the elasticparameters are less than that of the conventional methods
For the RSR method the main requirement of rock massis good in rheological property Moreover the greater thedepth of testing site the better as the in situ stress at greaterdepth is generally bigger In addition the grouting qualityis very important for the RSR method and the groutingshould be accomplished as soon as possible after drilling thehole The different lateral pressure coefficient may have aninfluence on the stress values measured by the transducerwhich is caused by the difference between the transducer andsurroundingmaterialThrough the model test and numericalsimulation it has been found that the measured stresses werelinear to the loading stresses for the hydrostatic stress loadingand the measured stresses were linear to both the loadingstresses in the same direction and the differential stressesof the other two directions for the nonhydrostatic stressloading [32] The actual stress values on each sensing facecan be deduced by the combination of calibration coefficientsand the measured stress values although the lateral pressurecoefficient 120582 is unknown
The transducers that the RSRmethod uses can be embed-ded not only in the initial stress area to obtain themagnitudesof original stress but also in the excavation damage zone tomonitor the stress state variation It has been found that the
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 11
N
Max mid and min principal stresses of horizontal borehole by RSRMax mid and min principal stresses of vertical borehole by RSR
Max mid and min principal stresses of E = 5GPa by overcoringMax mid and min principal stresses of E = 8GPa by overcoring
Figure 12 Orientations of principal stresses by both overcoring technique and RSR method
stressmeter that is installed in a specimen under loadwill pickup the absolute ambient stress in the host when observed overa period of time concurrently it responded immediately toan increase of stress generated in the host after the time of itsinsertion [33]
The RSR method is used to measure the in situ stressbased on the rheological behavior of rock the longer themonitoring time is therefore the more precise the resultsbecome However further research is needed to see how tocalculate the stress state of one point through monitoring ina short time for engineering applications
7 Conclusions
For the measurement of the stress in deep soft rock a RSRmethod to determine the orientations and magnitudes of 3Din situ stress is proposed as well as its test equipment andprocess and analytical solutions were derived to analyze thecharacteristics of this method Then the RSR method aswell as overcoring technique was conducted in PingdingshanNumber 1 coal mine to measure both the in situ stressorientation and magnitude at a depth of 877m The resultsare summarized as follows
If the rock mass has a better rheological property therecovery stress measured by the transducer is more close tothe initial stress Moreover the grouting quality should beensured that the properties of grouting materials should beclose to that of rock masses in actual operation
These results tested by RSR method and overcoringtechnique are basically in the same order which validatesthat the RSR method is a useful method for deep soft rockmasses The major principal stresses are approximately in
the direction of NW-SE which correlates well with thestress regime of Pingdingshan zone known from the tectonicmovement history
The RSR method can be used to obtain more reliabledata when stress relief method cannot be applied in soft orhighly jointed rock masses under great depth Therefore itcan be said that the RSRmethodmay bewell suitable formorecomplicated geological conditions However more studiesare required to see how to calculate the stress state of onepoint through monitoring in a short time for engineeringapplications
Conflict of Interests
The authors declare that there is no conflict of interestsregarding the publication of this paper
Acknowledgments
This work is supported by the National Basic Research Pro-gram of China (ldquo973rdquo Program) (Grant no 2014CB046904)and theNationalNatural Science Foundation ofChina (Grantnos 41130742 and 11302242)
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Mathematical Problems in Engineering 3
Grout
TDPTsPushrods
Borehole
Tunnel
Data logger
Cables
Figure 2 Sketch of stress measurement process with RSR method
other sensing faces 120590119909 120590119910 120590119911 1205901015840
119909 1205901015840
119910 1205901015840
119911are normal stresses
measured by each sensing face respectively The stress state(120590119909 120590119910 120590119911 120591119909119910 120591119910119911 120591119911119909) of the test point under the coordinate
system 119900119909119910119911 can be calculated through
1205901015840
119909= 1198972
1120590119909+ 1198982
1120590119910+ 1198992
1120590119911+ 211989711198981120591119909119910
+ 211989811198991120591119910119911
+ 211989911198971120591119911119909
1205901015840
119910= 1198972
2120590119909+ 1198982
2120590119910+ 1198992
2120590119911+ 211989721198982120591119909119910
+ 211989821198992120591119910119911
+ 211989921198972120591119910119911
1205901015840
119911= 1198972
3120590119909+ 1198982
3120590119910+ 1198992
3120590119911+ 211989731198983120591119909119910
+ 211989831198993120591119910119911
+ 211989931198973120591119910119911
(1)
where 120591119909119910 120591119910119911 and 120591
119911119909are shear stress components under the
coordinate system 119900119909119910119911 1198971 1198972 and 119897
3 respectively represent
direction cosines between 1199091015840- 1199101015840- and 119911
1015840-axis and 119909-axis1198981 1198982 and 119898
3 respectively represent direction cosines
between 1199091015840- 1199101015840- and 119911
1015840-axis and 119910-axis and 1198991 1198992 and 119899
3
respectively represent direction cosines between 1199091015840- 1199101015840- and
1199111015840-axis and 119911-axis
3 Definition of the Problem
In this paper a two-dimensionalmodel of the stressmeasure-ment process is conducted to determine the recovery stress onthe pressure transducer The transducer which is adhered tothe borehole by elastic grout layer is thought to be hollow andelastic The cross sections of the transducer grout layer andthe borehole are circular and concentric shown in Figure 3The interfaces between the rock and the grout layer andbetween the grout layer and the transducer are assumed to besmooth The surrounding rocks are homogeneous isotropicand linearly viscoelastic and the lateral pressure coefficient is120582
Regarding the above assumptions the problem is con-sidered as a two-dimensional (2D) infinite viscoelastic planesubjected to a biaxial stress which treats a geometricallysimilar problem with tunnel linings in circular tunnels
P
r
r0
r0
r1
r1
r2
p(t)p(t)
120582P
q(t)
q(t)
Rock Grout layer (t gt t0) Transducer (t gt t0)
Figure 3 Illustration of the radii of the grout layer and the trans-ducer
[24 25] The process of stress measurement can be dividedinto two stages During the first stage spanning fromboreholeexcavation until the time at 119905 = 119905
0 pressure of the
surrounding rock is released and there is no pressure on thegrout layer and the transducer The second stage spans fromthe time of the solidification of the grout at 119905 = 119905
0 onwards
The contact pressures between the rock and the grout layerand between the grout layer and the transducer which willvary with time are assumed as 119901(119905) and 119902(119905) respectively
For such a biaxial plane strain condition a cylindricalcoordinate system (119903 120579 119911) is employed and the in situ stressat infinity (119903 = infin) can be written as follows
120590119903=
119875
2
[(1 + 120582) + (1 minus 120582) cos 2120579]
120590120579=
119875
2
[(1 + 120582) minus (1 minus 120582) cos 2120579]
120591119903120579
= minus
119875
2
(1 minus 120582) sin 2120579
(2)
where 120590119903is the radial stress of the rock 120590
120579is the hoop stress of
the rock 120591119903120579is the shear stress of the rock and119875 is the vertical
in situ stressThe in situ stress can be divided into two parts uniform
part and nonuniform part Correspondingly the contactpressures on the interfaces can also be divided into uniformpart and nonuniform part
119901 (119905) = 1199010(119905) + 119901
1(119905) cos 2120579
119902 (119905) = 1199020(119905) + 119902
1(119905) cos 2120579
(3)
where 1199010(119905) and 119902
0(119905) are contact stresses under uniform
in situ stress and 1199011(119905) cos 2120579 and 119902
1(119905) cos 2120579 are contact
stresses under nonuniform in situ stressAfter the grout is solidified (119905 gt 119905
0) the boundary condi-
tion for this problem is
119906119903119888(1199030 119905) = 119906
119903(1199030 119905)
119906119903119879
(1199031 119905) = 119906
119903119888(1199031 119905)
(4)
where 119906119903 119906119903119888 and 119906
119903119879are the radial displacements in the
rock the grout layer and the transducer respectively 1199030is
4 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
the radius of the borehole and 1199031is the external radius of the
transducer
4 Solution for the Problem
41 The Forms of Solution in Laplace Domain under UniformStress Field According to the correspondence principle theviscoelastic displacement of the rock under uniform in situstress (119875(1+120582)2) at the borehole wall (119903 = 119903
0) can be written
as [24 26]
1199061198750
(1199030 119905) =
1198751199030
4
(1 + 120582) 119869 (119905) (5)
where 119869(119905) is the shear creep compliance andwill be describedin more detail below
The radial displacement of the rock under uniform in situstress after time 119905
0is
Δ1199061198750
(1199030 119905) =
1 + 120582
4
1198751199030Δ119869 (6)
where Δ119869 = 119869(119905 + 1199050) minus 119869(119905
0)
After time 1199050 contact pressures exist on the interface
between the rock and the grout layer Then the total radialdisplacement of the rock at the borehole wall (119903 = 119903
0) can be
written as
1199061199030
(1199030 119905) =
1 + 120582
4
1198751199030Δ119869 minus
1199010(119905) 1199030
21198660
(7)
where 1198660is the shear modulus of the rock
The Laplace transform of a function 119891(119905) is defined as
119891 (119904) = int
infin
0
119891 (119905) 119890minus119904119905
119889119905 (8)
where 119904 is the transform parameter and the inverse Laplacetransform is expressed by
119871minus1
[119891 (119904)] = 119891 (119905) =
1
2120587119894
int
120573+119894infin
120573minus119894infin
119891 (119904) 119890119904119905119889119905 (9)
The Laplace transform of (7) gives rise to
1199061199030
(1199030 119905) =
1 + 120582
4
1198751199030Δ119869 minus
1199010(119904) 1199030
21198660(119904)
(10)
The grout layer is thought to be linear elastic and 119866119888
120583119888are the shear modulus and Poissonrsquos ratio respectively
The radial displacements of the grout layer under contactpressures (119901
0(119905) and 119902
0(119905)) in the Laplace domain at 119903 = 119903
0
and 119903 = 1199031 are
1199061198880
(1199030 119904) =
1199010(119904) 1199030
2119866119888
1198981198880
minus
1199020(119904) 1199030
2119866119888
1198991198880
1199061198880
(1199031 119904) =
1199010(119904) 1199030
2119866119888
1198981015840
1198880minus
1199020(119904) 1199030
2119866119888
1198991015840
1198880
(11)
where
1198981198880
=
1199032
1+ (1 minus 2120583
119888) 1199032
0
1199032
0minus 1199032
1
1198991198880
=
1199032
1(2 minus 2120583
119888)
1199032
0minus 1199032
1
1198981015840
1198880=
1199032
0(2 minus 2120583
119888)
1199032
0minus 1199032
1
1198991015840
1198880=
1199032
0+ (1 minus 2120583
119888) 1199032
1
1199032
0minus 1199032
1
(12)
are constant coefficients of parameters 1199030 1199031 and 120583
119888
The radial displacement of the transducer on the inter-faces between the grout layer and the transducer (119903 = 119903
1) in
Laplace domain is
1199061198790
(1199031 119904) =
1199020(119904) 1199031
2119866119879
1198981198790
(13)
where119866119879 120583119879are the shear elasticmodulus and Poissonrsquos ratio
of the transducer respectively and
1198981198790
=
1199032
2+ (1 minus 2120583
119879) 1199032
1
1199032
1minus 1199032
2
(14)
is a constant coefficient of parameters 1199031 1199032 and 120583
119879
42 The Forms of Solution in Laplace Domain under Nonuni-form Stress Field To simplify the solution of this problemthe Poissonrsquos ratio of the rock 120583
0is assumed to be a constant
and then the total radial displacement of the rock undernonuniform stress field at the borehole wall (119903 = 119903
0) in the
Laplace domain is
1199061199031
(1199030 119904) =
1 minus 120582
4
(3 minus 41205830) 1198751199030Δ119869
minus
1199011(119904) 1199030
61198660(119904)
(5 minus 61205830) cos 2120579
(15)
The Laplace transform of the radial displacement of thegrout layer on the interface (119903 = 119903
0and 119903 = 119903
1) under
nonuniform contact pressures can be written as
1199061198881
(1199030 119904) =
1199011(119904) 1199030
2119866119888
1198981198881cos 2120579 minus
1199021(119904) 1199030
2119866119888
1198991198881cos 2120579
1199061198881
(1199031 119904) =
1199011(119904) 1199031
2119866119888
1198981015840
1198881cos 2120579 minus
1199021(119904) 1199031
2119866119888
1198991015840
1198881cos 2120579
(16)
Define
1198981198881
= 1198911198881
minus 1198911198885119903minus4
0+ 212058311988811989111988831199032
0minus 2 (1 minus 120583
119888) 1198911198887119903minus2
0
1198991198881
= 1198911198882
minus 1198911198886119903minus4
0+ 212058311988811989111988841199032
0minus 2 (1 minus 120583
119888) 1198911198888119903minus2
0
1198981015840
1198881= 1198911198881
minus 1198911198885119903minus4
1+ 212058311988811989111988831199032
1minus 2 (1 minus 120583
119888) 1198911198887119903minus2
1
1198991015840
1198881= 1198911198882
minus 1198911198886119903minus4
1+ 212058311988811989111988841199032
1minus 2 (1 minus 120583
119888) 1198911198888119903minus2
1
1198911198881
=
1199036
0+ 1199034
01199032
1+ 21199032
01199034
1
(1199032
0minus 1199032
1)3
1198911198882
=
21199034
01199032
1+ 1199032
01199034
1+ 1199036
1
(1199032
0minus 1199032
1)3
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 5
1198911198883
= minus
1199034
0+ 31199032
01199032
1
3 (1199032
0minus 1199032
1)3
1198911198884
= minus
31199032
01199032
1+ 1199034
1
3 (1199032
0minus 1199032
1)3
1198911198885
=
31199036
01199034
1+ 1199034
01199036
1
3 (1199032
0minus 1199032
1)3
1198911198886
=
1199036
01199034
1+ 31199034
01199036
1
3 (1199032
0minus 1199032
1)3
1198911198887
= minus
21199036
01199032
1+ 1199034
01199034
1+ 1199032
01199036
1
(1199032
0minus 1199032
1)3
1198911198888
= minus
1199036
01199032
1+ 1199034
01199034
1+ 21199032
01199036
1
(1199032
0minus 1199032
1)3
(17)
The Laplace transform of the radial displacement of thetransducer on the interface (119903 = 119903
1) under nonuniform
contact pressure is expressed as follows
1199061198791
(1199031 119904) =
1199021(119904) 1199031
2119866119879
1198981198791
cos 2120579 (18)
where
1198981198791
= 1198911198791
minus 1198911198793
119903minus4
1+ 21205831198791198911198792
1199032
1minus 2 (1 minus 120583
119879) 1198911198794
119903minus2
1(19)
with
1198911198791
=
1199036
1+ 1199034
11199032
2+ 21199032
11199034
2
(1199032
1minus 1199032
2)3
1198911198792
= minus
1199034
1+ 31199032
11199032
2
3 (1199032
1minus 1199032
2)3
1198911198793
=
31199036
11199034
2+ 1199034
11199036
2
3 (1199032
1minus 1199032
2)3
1198911198794
= minus
21199036
11199032
2+ 1199034
11199034
2+ 1199032
11199036
2
(1199032
1minus 1199032
2)3
(20)
43 Determination of the Contact Pressures According to theboundary condition (4) the boundary compatibility condi-tions in the Laplace domain are
1199061199030
(1199030 119904) = 119906
1198880(1199030 119904)
1199061199031
(1199030 119904) = 119906
1198881(1199030 119904)
1199061015840
1198880(1199031 119904) = 119906
1198790(1199031 119904)
1199061015840
1198881(1199031 119904) = 119906
1198791(1199031 119904)
(21)
Submitting (10)ndash(18) into (21) the following can be ob-tained
1199010(119904) =
Δ119869
11198660(119904) + ((119866
11987911989811988801198991015840
1198880minus 11986611987911989911988801198981015840
1198880+ 1198661198881198981198790
1198981198880) (1198661198791198991015840
1198880+ 1198661198881198981198790
) 119866119888)
sdot
1 + 120582
2
119875
1199020(119904) =
Δ119869
((1198661198791198661198881198991015840
1198880+ 1198662
1198881198981198790
) 1198661198791198661198881198981015840
1198880) (1119866
0(119904)) + ((119866
11987911989811988801198991015840
1198880minus 11986611987911989911988801198981015840
1198880+ 1198661198881198981198790
1198981198880) 1198661198791198661198881198981015840
1198880)
sdot
1 + 120582
2
119875
1199011(119904) =
(3 minus 41205830) Δ119869
((5 minus 61205830) 3) (1119866
0(119904)) + ((119866
11987911989811988811198991015840
1198881minus 11986611987911989911988811198981015840
1198881+ 1198661198881198981198791
1198981198881) (1198661198791198991015840
1198881+ 1198661198881198981198791
) 119866119888)
sdot
1 minus 120582
2
119875
1199021(119904) =
(3 minus 41205830) Δ119869
((1198661198791198991015840
1198881+ 1198661198881198981198791
) 1198661198791198981015840
1198881) ((5 minus 6120583
0) 3) (1119866
0(119904)) + ((119866
11987911989811988811198991015840
1198881minus 11986611987911989911988811198981015840
1198881+ 1198661198881198981198791
1198981198881) 1198661198791198661198881198981015840
1198881)
sdot
1 minus 120582
2
119875
(22)
44 Analytical Solution for 3-Parameter Solid Model For thetime-dependent behavior of soft or highly jointed rock massor rock mass with high in situ stress the 3-parameter solidmodelmay be commonly employed as shown in Figure 4 theshear creep compliance is written as
119869 (119905) =
1
1198661
+
1
1198662
(1 minus exp(minus
1198662119905
120578
)) (23)
where1198661 1198662are the shear moduli and 120578 is the viscosity coef-
ficientsThe differential equation of 3-parameter solid model can
be written as
1 + 1198753 = 119876
3120574 + 119876
4 (24)
6 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
G1
G2
120578
Figure 4 Sketch of 3-parameter solid model
where
1198753=
120578
1198661+ 1198662
1198763=
11986611198662
1198661+ 1198662
1198764=
1205781198661
1198661+ 1198662
(25)
Then the contact pressure on the transducer can be ob-tained
119902 (119905) = 1199020(119905) + 119902
1(119905) cos 2120579 =
1 + 120582
2
119875(1 minus
119866infin
119866ini)
sdot
exp (minus11986621199050120578)
1198771+ 119866infin1198772
(1 minus exp(minus
1198771+ 11987631198772
11987531198771+ 11987641198772
119905))
+
1 minus 120582
2
(3 minus 41205830) 119875(1 minus
119866infin
119866ini)
sdot
exp (minus11986621199050120578)
1198773+ 119866infin1198774
(1 minus exp(minus
1198773+ 11987631198774
11987531198773+ 11987641198774
119905))
sdot cos 2120579
(26)
where119866infin
= 11986611198662(1198661+1198662) is the long-term shearmodulus
119866ini = 1198661is the initial shear modulus and
1198771=
1198661198791198991015840
1198880+ 1198661198881198981198790
1198661198791198981015840
1198880
1198772=
1198661198791198991015840
1198881+ 1198661198881198981198791
1198661198791198981015840
1198881
5 minus 61205830
3
1198773=
11986611987911989811988801198991015840
1198880minus 11986611987911989911988801198981015840
1198880+ 1198661198881198981198790
1198981198880
1198661198791198661198881198981015840
1198880
1198774=
11986611987911989811988811198991015840
1198881minus 11986611987911989911988811198981015840
1198881+ 1198661198881198981198791
1198981198881
1198661198791198661198881198981015840
1198881
(27)
Paying attention to the analytical expression derived forthe contact pressure on the transducer (119902(119905)) for 3-parametersolid model instead it can be found that the stable contactpressure on the transducer (119902(infin)) is dependent mainly onthe mechanical properties of the rock mass the solidificationtime of the grout (119905
0) and the shear moduli of the grout
layer as shown in (26) With the decrease of the long-term shear modulus of the rock the contact pressure on the
0 200 400 600 800 100000
01
02
03
04
05
06
t (h)
q(t
)1205900
t0 = 0
t0 = 10ht0 = 20ht0 = 50h
t0 = 100ht0 = 200ht0 = 500h
Figure 5 The ratio of the contact pressure (119902(119905)) on the transducerto the in situ stress calculated at 120579 = 0
∘ for various solidificationtimes
transducer increases In order to expound the effects of thegrout solidification time (119905
0) the shear moduli of the grout
and the properties of the rock mass on the contact pressures(119902(119905)) parametric investigations have been presented here
Regarding the geometrical properties of this problem wehave 119903
0= 65mm 119903
1= 55mm 119903
2= 50mm 119875 = 1MPa and
120582 = 12 The values of the mechanical properties are 119866119888
=
4GPa 120583119888= 035 119866
119879= 80GPa and 120583
119879= 025 According to
the experiment tests and back analysis [20 25] the followingvalues can be assumed 119866
1= 2576MPa 119866
2= 1903MPa 120578 =
31671198905MPasdoth and 1205830
= 035 for 3-parameter solid modelFor the sake of explanation the ratio of the contact pressureto the in situ stress will be presented in Figures 5 6 and 7
The solidification time of the grout is assumed to be sevenvalues 0 10 h 20 h 50 h 100 h 200 h and 500 h The generaltrend is that the contact pressures increase gradually andreach stability after a period of time
In Figure 5 it can be found that the contact pressureson the transducer develop to be stable over time When thesolidification time increases the ratio of the stable contactpressure to the in situ stress decreases from 60 to 0 Thusit can be concluded that the less solidification time will bebeneficial for the recovery of the contact pressure on thetransducer
45 Influence of the ShearModulus of the GroutMaterial Theshear modulus of the transducer is a fixed value of 80GPaNine values of the modulus of the grout material (119866
119888) are
selected and the transducer-groutmodulus ratios are 1 1 2 15 1 10 1 25 1 50 1 100 1 200 1 and 500 1 respectivelyThe influence of the shear modulus of the grout material isanalyzed for a solidification time of 119905
0= 10 h
In Figure 6 the results of the ratio of the contact pressures(119902(119905)) on the transducer to the in situ stress calculated at
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 7
0 200 400 600 800 100000
01
02
03
04
05
06
t (h)
q(t
)1205900
Gc GT = 1 1Gc GT = 1 10Gc GT = 1 100Gc GT = 1 2Gc GT = 1 25
Gc GT = 1 200Gc GT = 1 5Gc GT = 1 50Gc GT = 1 500
(a)
0 100 200 300 400 500
025
030
035
040
045
050
055
060
Ratio
of s
tabl
e rec
over
y str
ess t
o in
situ
stre
ss
GTGc
(b)
Figure 6 Results for different shear moduli of the grout material (a) ratio of the contact pressure (119902(119905)) to in situ stress (b) ratio of stablerecovery stress to in situ stress
120579 = 0∘ with different shear moduli of the grout material are
plotted It can be found that the contact pressure increasesgradually and reaches stability after a period of time andthe ratio of the stable recovery pressure on the transducerto the in situ stress first increases and then decreases withthe increase of transducer-grout modulus ratio as shownin Figure 6 When the transducer-grout modulus ratio isbetween 20 1 and 50 1 the stable recovery pressure on thetransducer reaches the maximum value (about 60 of thein situ stress) From these figures it emerges that suitablegroutmaterial is important for transducers to achieve optimalstresses The type of the grout material should be determinedafter the mix proportion test before field application Thegrout material used in the field test should have goodmechanical properties and are made into samples to measurethemechanical parameters in the lab Moreover it is essentialto carry out calibration tests for the transducer using differentgrouting materials before its field application
46 Influence of the Properties of the Rock Mass To illustratethe influence of the properties of the rock mass on therecovery stresses measured by the transducer an example ispresented herein The properties of the grouting material areassumed to be the same with that of rock masses The shearmodulus 119866
1is fixed and 119866
2are assumed to be six different
values and the ratio of the initial modulus 119866ini to the long-termmodulus 119866
infinis 12 15 2 3 5 11 21 and 51 accordingly
The results have been shown in Figure 7In Figure 7(a) it can be found that the recovery stresses
measured by the transducer increase gradually and reachstability after a period of time From Figure 7(b) withthe reduction of the long-term modulus 119866
infin that is the
increase of themodulus ratio1198660119866infin the final recovery stress
increasesWhen themodulus ratio is greater than 10 the finalrecovery stress gradually turns to be stable and is above 90of the initial stress From the figures it emerges that if the rockmass has a better rheological property the recovery stressmeasured by the transducer is more close to the initial stressMoreover in practical measurement the final recovery ratiocan be obtained from the initial long-term modulus ratio1198660119866infinwhich can be calculated through creep experiment of
rockmasses according to the curves in Figure 7(b) and the insitu stress can be evaluated from the final recovery ratio andthe practical measured recovery stresses
5 Field Test
The in situ stressmeasurements were carried out in Pingding-shan Number 1 coal mine situated in Henan Provincenorthern China as shown in Figure 8 The Pingdingshancoalfield is about 38 km long EndashW and 20 km wide NndashS and the coal-bearing sediments are mostly of Permianage mainly comprising sandstone sandy mudstone andcarbonaceous shale besides coals which are overlain by theTertiary andQuaternary deposits [27]The general structuralconfiguration of Pingdingshan coal mine is a series of NWfolds in which the major one is Likou syncline It is a broadand gentle fold appearing as a brush structure converging tothe southeast and diverging to the northwest There are someother secondary folds in this area for example Guozhuanganticline Niuzhuang syncline and Zhugemiao anticline inthe south of Likou syncline and Baishigou anticline Ling-wushan syncline and Xiangxia fault in the north of Likousyncline
8 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
0 200 400 600 800 100000
02
04
06
08
10
t (h)
q(t
)1205900
G1G2 = 1 5G1G2 = 4 1G1G2 = 1 2G1G2 = 10 1
G1G2 = 1 1G1G2 = 20 1G1G2 = 2 1G1G2 = 50 1
(a)
0 10 20 30 40 5001
02
03
04
05
06
07
08
09
10
Fina
l rec
over
y str
ess r
atio
GiniGinfin
(b)
Figure 7 Results for different rock properties (a) ratio of the contact pressure (119902(119905)) to in situ stress (b) ratio of stable recovery stress to insitu stress
Table 1 In situ stress magnitudes by overcoring technique using different elastic parameters at the horizontal borehole
Parameter 1205901
1205902
1205903
119864 (GPa) ] Magnitude (MPa) Azimuth (∘) Dip (∘) Magnitude (MPa) Azimuth (∘) Dip (∘) Magnitude (MPa) Azimuth (∘) Dip (∘)5 031 2292 14556 445 1829 33199 8553 1501 23559 0508 031 3445 14315 507 2720 34827 8440 2266 23336 237
The test site of Pingdingshan Number 1 coal mine islocated at a track-dip tunnel with a vertical buried depthof about 877m the lithology of which is dark gray sandymudstone The in situ stress measurements were carried outin both horizontal and vertical boreholes with 30m in depthand 130mm in diameter The sketch of borehole layout isshown in Figure 9 The horizontal borehole was inclined tothe horizontal plane at 10∘ Before the application of theRSR method overcoring technique was carried out in thehorizontal borehole according to the ISTM standard [28]After overcoring the rock core including the hollow inclusiongaugewas calibrated in the calibration instrument In order toobtain themechanical parametersmore accurately rock coresdrilled from the testing borehole were prepared into standardspecimens with 50mm in diameter and 100mm in lengthThe elastic parameters were determined by several specimensfrom uniaxial compression experiment in lab Then theTDPTs were installed at the overcoring position accordingto the testing procedures of RSR method The appropriategrouting materials were selected after a mix design in the labto make the property of grouting materials close to that ofrock masses
6 Results and Discussion
The overcoring test was first finished in horizontal boreholeat Number 1 coal mine and the curves of microstrain values
versus the overcoring depth were given in Figure 10 Basedon the test of elastic parameters of rock mass the elasticmodulus varies in a range (5GPasim8GPa) and the calculatedin situ stresses using different elastic modulus are shown inTable 1 It can be found that themagnitudes of three principalstress components increase as elastic modulus 119864 increaseswhereas their azimuth and dip angles are maintained nearlythe same Ge and Hou [29] have found that when Poissonrsquosratio ] is constant the magnitudes of three principal stresseswill increase (or decrease) with the increase (or decrease) of119864 Therefore the principal stress magnitudes of overcoringtechnique vary in a range
The monitor of the recovery stresses using TDPTsand temperature changes in both horizontal and verticalboreholes at Pingdingshan Number 1 coal mine has beenrecorded for a period of about 500 days It should be notedthat the calibration coefficients of each sensing face weredetermined by calibration test using the actual groutingmaterial and the influence of the environmental temperatureon the transducer is analyzed and compensated For thesake of brief only the results of horizontal borehole inPingdingshan Number 1 coal mine are shown in Figure 11It is clear that the recovery stress measured by all sensingfaces in different directions increases gradually to be stablealthough the rate of stress recovery decreases with timeAccording to the analytical results of the relationship between
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 9
Syncline
N
Anticline
Normal fault
Reverse fault
Coal mine
Likou syncline
Niuzhuang syncline
Baishigou anticline
Guozhuang anticline
Xiangxia fault
Lingwushan syncline
Guodishan
normal fault
Xiaxian
fault
No 9
No 5
No 7No 2
No 8
No 1
No 10
No 12
No 4
No 6No 11
No 3
Beijing
Test area
Pingdingshan city
150
(km)
Figure 8 Schematic map of the Pingdingshan coal mine [27]
Roadway
Horizontal borehole
Vert
ical
bor
ehol
e
10∘
Depth = 30m diameter = 130mm
Dep
th=30
m d
iam
eter=130
mm
Figure 9 Sketch of the borehole layout
the final recovery stress and initial stress and the ratio ofthe initial modulus to the long-term modulus (119866ini119866infin asymp
18) from experimental tests the final recovery ratio can bedetermined (about 045) Then the initial stresses verticalto each sensing face can be calculated and inserted into the
calculation formulation (1) to obtain the stress tensor in localcoordinate system and the principal stress components inglobal coordinate system can be calculated using coordinatetransformation The results of the magnitude azimuth anddip angle of three principal stresses in both horizontal andvertical boreholes in Pingdingshan Number 1 coal mine arelisted in Table 2 All the test results show that the orientationof the maximum principal stress 120590
1and the minimum stress
1205903is approximately in the horizontal plane and that of the
intermediate principal stress is nearly verticalFrom Tables 1 and 2 it can be found that the princi-
pal stress magnitudes of overcoring vary in a range whenselecting different elastic parameters and the results of RSRmethod are within this range The orientations of principalstresses by both overcoring technique and RSR method aredrawn in the stereographic projection shown in Figure 11Thedominant orientations of the maximum principal stress arealmost the same for both the overcoring technique and RSRmethod Pingdingshan region has experienced three obvioustectonic movements in the geologic history the Indosinianmovement during theTriassic period theYanshanmovementduring the Mesozoic period and the Himalayan movementduring the Neozoic period Accordingly the direction of themajor principle stress in this region has shifted from NE-SW
10 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Table 2 In situ stress magnitudes by RSR method at the horizontal and vertical boreholes
Boreholeposition
1205901
1205902
1205903
Magnitude (MPa) Azimuth (∘) Dip (∘) Magnitude (MPa) Azimuth (∘) Dip (∘) Magnitude (MPa) Azimuth (∘) Dip (∘)Horizontal 2821 14887 378 2050 30664 8592 1780 5877 154Vertical 3056 1096 1511 2142 4583 7484 1994 1929 117
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
0
1000
2000
3000
4000
5000
6000
Mic
rostr
ain
valu
e
Overcoring depth (cm)
Channel 1 Channel 7Channel 2 Channel 8Channel 3 Channel 9Channel 4 Channel 10Channel 5 Channel 11Channel 6 Channel 12
minus1000
Figure 10 Stress relief curves during the overcoring of horizontalborehole at Number 1 coal mine
to NW-SE then to approximately EW [30] Figure 12 showsthat the major principle stress directions of testing pointsare mostly NW-SE and agree with those in the second andthird tectonicmovements which reveals that the in situ stressfield at present is caused primarily by the latter two tectonicmovements Therefore it can be said that the result from theRSR method is reliable and the new method for in situ stressmeasurement can be used to measure rock stresses
Through the practical application of the overcoring tech-nique and RSR method for in situ stress measurement inPingdingshan Number 1 coal mine it can be found that theRSR method may be a maneuverable and effective techniquein deep soft rock The accuracy of elastic parameters has agreat influence on the calculated results of stress magnitudesand orientations for overcoring technique However theexact elastic parameters of rockmass seemnot very necessaryfor RSRmethod with respect to conventional methods In theRSRmethod the stress values in different orientations can bemeasured by the pressure transducer directly and can be usedto calculate the stress tensor The accuracy of stress valuesis dependent on the calibration factor of the transducer thatcan be obtained from calibration test Based on the results ofcurrent research [31] the variation of the elastic modulus ofsurrounding material has little influence on the calibrationfactor when the elastic modulus ratio of the transducer to
0 100 200 300 400 500
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
1234
56Temperature
Time (day)Re
cove
ry st
ress
(MPa
)
10
15
20
25
30
35
Tem
pera
ture
(∘C)
Figure 11 Stress recovery process in the horizontal borehole ofPingdingshan Number 1 coal mine
the surrounding material is large enough Therefore the truerock stresses can be inferred by the rough elastic parametersThe measuring errors of RSR method caused by the elasticparameters are less than that of the conventional methods
For the RSR method the main requirement of rock massis good in rheological property Moreover the greater thedepth of testing site the better as the in situ stress at greaterdepth is generally bigger In addition the grouting qualityis very important for the RSR method and the groutingshould be accomplished as soon as possible after drilling thehole The different lateral pressure coefficient may have aninfluence on the stress values measured by the transducerwhich is caused by the difference between the transducer andsurroundingmaterialThrough the model test and numericalsimulation it has been found that the measured stresses werelinear to the loading stresses for the hydrostatic stress loadingand the measured stresses were linear to both the loadingstresses in the same direction and the differential stressesof the other two directions for the nonhydrostatic stressloading [32] The actual stress values on each sensing facecan be deduced by the combination of calibration coefficientsand the measured stress values although the lateral pressurecoefficient 120582 is unknown
The transducers that the RSRmethod uses can be embed-ded not only in the initial stress area to obtain themagnitudesof original stress but also in the excavation damage zone tomonitor the stress state variation It has been found that the
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 11
N
Max mid and min principal stresses of horizontal borehole by RSRMax mid and min principal stresses of vertical borehole by RSR
Max mid and min principal stresses of E = 5GPa by overcoringMax mid and min principal stresses of E = 8GPa by overcoring
Figure 12 Orientations of principal stresses by both overcoring technique and RSR method
stressmeter that is installed in a specimen under loadwill pickup the absolute ambient stress in the host when observed overa period of time concurrently it responded immediately toan increase of stress generated in the host after the time of itsinsertion [33]
The RSR method is used to measure the in situ stressbased on the rheological behavior of rock the longer themonitoring time is therefore the more precise the resultsbecome However further research is needed to see how tocalculate the stress state of one point through monitoring ina short time for engineering applications
7 Conclusions
For the measurement of the stress in deep soft rock a RSRmethod to determine the orientations and magnitudes of 3Din situ stress is proposed as well as its test equipment andprocess and analytical solutions were derived to analyze thecharacteristics of this method Then the RSR method aswell as overcoring technique was conducted in PingdingshanNumber 1 coal mine to measure both the in situ stressorientation and magnitude at a depth of 877m The resultsare summarized as follows
If the rock mass has a better rheological property therecovery stress measured by the transducer is more close tothe initial stress Moreover the grouting quality should beensured that the properties of grouting materials should beclose to that of rock masses in actual operation
These results tested by RSR method and overcoringtechnique are basically in the same order which validatesthat the RSR method is a useful method for deep soft rockmasses The major principal stresses are approximately in
the direction of NW-SE which correlates well with thestress regime of Pingdingshan zone known from the tectonicmovement history
The RSR method can be used to obtain more reliabledata when stress relief method cannot be applied in soft orhighly jointed rock masses under great depth Therefore itcan be said that the RSRmethodmay bewell suitable formorecomplicated geological conditions However more studiesare required to see how to calculate the stress state of onepoint through monitoring in a short time for engineeringapplications
Conflict of Interests
The authors declare that there is no conflict of interestsregarding the publication of this paper
Acknowledgments
This work is supported by the National Basic Research Pro-gram of China (ldquo973rdquo Program) (Grant no 2014CB046904)and theNationalNatural Science Foundation ofChina (Grantnos 41130742 and 11302242)
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4 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
the radius of the borehole and 1199031is the external radius of the
transducer
4 Solution for the Problem
41 The Forms of Solution in Laplace Domain under UniformStress Field According to the correspondence principle theviscoelastic displacement of the rock under uniform in situstress (119875(1+120582)2) at the borehole wall (119903 = 119903
0) can be written
as [24 26]
1199061198750
(1199030 119905) =
1198751199030
4
(1 + 120582) 119869 (119905) (5)
where 119869(119905) is the shear creep compliance andwill be describedin more detail below
The radial displacement of the rock under uniform in situstress after time 119905
0is
Δ1199061198750
(1199030 119905) =
1 + 120582
4
1198751199030Δ119869 (6)
where Δ119869 = 119869(119905 + 1199050) minus 119869(119905
0)
After time 1199050 contact pressures exist on the interface
between the rock and the grout layer Then the total radialdisplacement of the rock at the borehole wall (119903 = 119903
0) can be
written as
1199061199030
(1199030 119905) =
1 + 120582
4
1198751199030Δ119869 minus
1199010(119905) 1199030
21198660
(7)
where 1198660is the shear modulus of the rock
The Laplace transform of a function 119891(119905) is defined as
119891 (119904) = int
infin
0
119891 (119905) 119890minus119904119905
119889119905 (8)
where 119904 is the transform parameter and the inverse Laplacetransform is expressed by
119871minus1
[119891 (119904)] = 119891 (119905) =
1
2120587119894
int
120573+119894infin
120573minus119894infin
119891 (119904) 119890119904119905119889119905 (9)
The Laplace transform of (7) gives rise to
1199061199030
(1199030 119905) =
1 + 120582
4
1198751199030Δ119869 minus
1199010(119904) 1199030
21198660(119904)
(10)
The grout layer is thought to be linear elastic and 119866119888
120583119888are the shear modulus and Poissonrsquos ratio respectively
The radial displacements of the grout layer under contactpressures (119901
0(119905) and 119902
0(119905)) in the Laplace domain at 119903 = 119903
0
and 119903 = 1199031 are
1199061198880
(1199030 119904) =
1199010(119904) 1199030
2119866119888
1198981198880
minus
1199020(119904) 1199030
2119866119888
1198991198880
1199061198880
(1199031 119904) =
1199010(119904) 1199030
2119866119888
1198981015840
1198880minus
1199020(119904) 1199030
2119866119888
1198991015840
1198880
(11)
where
1198981198880
=
1199032
1+ (1 minus 2120583
119888) 1199032
0
1199032
0minus 1199032
1
1198991198880
=
1199032
1(2 minus 2120583
119888)
1199032
0minus 1199032
1
1198981015840
1198880=
1199032
0(2 minus 2120583
119888)
1199032
0minus 1199032
1
1198991015840
1198880=
1199032
0+ (1 minus 2120583
119888) 1199032
1
1199032
0minus 1199032
1
(12)
are constant coefficients of parameters 1199030 1199031 and 120583
119888
The radial displacement of the transducer on the inter-faces between the grout layer and the transducer (119903 = 119903
1) in
Laplace domain is
1199061198790
(1199031 119904) =
1199020(119904) 1199031
2119866119879
1198981198790
(13)
where119866119879 120583119879are the shear elasticmodulus and Poissonrsquos ratio
of the transducer respectively and
1198981198790
=
1199032
2+ (1 minus 2120583
119879) 1199032
1
1199032
1minus 1199032
2
(14)
is a constant coefficient of parameters 1199031 1199032 and 120583
119879
42 The Forms of Solution in Laplace Domain under Nonuni-form Stress Field To simplify the solution of this problemthe Poissonrsquos ratio of the rock 120583
0is assumed to be a constant
and then the total radial displacement of the rock undernonuniform stress field at the borehole wall (119903 = 119903
0) in the
Laplace domain is
1199061199031
(1199030 119904) =
1 minus 120582
4
(3 minus 41205830) 1198751199030Δ119869
minus
1199011(119904) 1199030
61198660(119904)
(5 minus 61205830) cos 2120579
(15)
The Laplace transform of the radial displacement of thegrout layer on the interface (119903 = 119903
0and 119903 = 119903
1) under
nonuniform contact pressures can be written as
1199061198881
(1199030 119904) =
1199011(119904) 1199030
2119866119888
1198981198881cos 2120579 minus
1199021(119904) 1199030
2119866119888
1198991198881cos 2120579
1199061198881
(1199031 119904) =
1199011(119904) 1199031
2119866119888
1198981015840
1198881cos 2120579 minus
1199021(119904) 1199031
2119866119888
1198991015840
1198881cos 2120579
(16)
Define
1198981198881
= 1198911198881
minus 1198911198885119903minus4
0+ 212058311988811989111988831199032
0minus 2 (1 minus 120583
119888) 1198911198887119903minus2
0
1198991198881
= 1198911198882
minus 1198911198886119903minus4
0+ 212058311988811989111988841199032
0minus 2 (1 minus 120583
119888) 1198911198888119903minus2
0
1198981015840
1198881= 1198911198881
minus 1198911198885119903minus4
1+ 212058311988811989111988831199032
1minus 2 (1 minus 120583
119888) 1198911198887119903minus2
1
1198991015840
1198881= 1198911198882
minus 1198911198886119903minus4
1+ 212058311988811989111988841199032
1minus 2 (1 minus 120583
119888) 1198911198888119903minus2
1
1198911198881
=
1199036
0+ 1199034
01199032
1+ 21199032
01199034
1
(1199032
0minus 1199032
1)3
1198911198882
=
21199034
01199032
1+ 1199032
01199034
1+ 1199036
1
(1199032
0minus 1199032
1)3
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 5
1198911198883
= minus
1199034
0+ 31199032
01199032
1
3 (1199032
0minus 1199032
1)3
1198911198884
= minus
31199032
01199032
1+ 1199034
1
3 (1199032
0minus 1199032
1)3
1198911198885
=
31199036
01199034
1+ 1199034
01199036
1
3 (1199032
0minus 1199032
1)3
1198911198886
=
1199036
01199034
1+ 31199034
01199036
1
3 (1199032
0minus 1199032
1)3
1198911198887
= minus
21199036
01199032
1+ 1199034
01199034
1+ 1199032
01199036
1
(1199032
0minus 1199032
1)3
1198911198888
= minus
1199036
01199032
1+ 1199034
01199034
1+ 21199032
01199036
1
(1199032
0minus 1199032
1)3
(17)
The Laplace transform of the radial displacement of thetransducer on the interface (119903 = 119903
1) under nonuniform
contact pressure is expressed as follows
1199061198791
(1199031 119904) =
1199021(119904) 1199031
2119866119879
1198981198791
cos 2120579 (18)
where
1198981198791
= 1198911198791
minus 1198911198793
119903minus4
1+ 21205831198791198911198792
1199032
1minus 2 (1 minus 120583
119879) 1198911198794
119903minus2
1(19)
with
1198911198791
=
1199036
1+ 1199034
11199032
2+ 21199032
11199034
2
(1199032
1minus 1199032
2)3
1198911198792
= minus
1199034
1+ 31199032
11199032
2
3 (1199032
1minus 1199032
2)3
1198911198793
=
31199036
11199034
2+ 1199034
11199036
2
3 (1199032
1minus 1199032
2)3
1198911198794
= minus
21199036
11199032
2+ 1199034
11199034
2+ 1199032
11199036
2
(1199032
1minus 1199032
2)3
(20)
43 Determination of the Contact Pressures According to theboundary condition (4) the boundary compatibility condi-tions in the Laplace domain are
1199061199030
(1199030 119904) = 119906
1198880(1199030 119904)
1199061199031
(1199030 119904) = 119906
1198881(1199030 119904)
1199061015840
1198880(1199031 119904) = 119906
1198790(1199031 119904)
1199061015840
1198881(1199031 119904) = 119906
1198791(1199031 119904)
(21)
Submitting (10)ndash(18) into (21) the following can be ob-tained
1199010(119904) =
Δ119869
11198660(119904) + ((119866
11987911989811988801198991015840
1198880minus 11986611987911989911988801198981015840
1198880+ 1198661198881198981198790
1198981198880) (1198661198791198991015840
1198880+ 1198661198881198981198790
) 119866119888)
sdot
1 + 120582
2
119875
1199020(119904) =
Δ119869
((1198661198791198661198881198991015840
1198880+ 1198662
1198881198981198790
) 1198661198791198661198881198981015840
1198880) (1119866
0(119904)) + ((119866
11987911989811988801198991015840
1198880minus 11986611987911989911988801198981015840
1198880+ 1198661198881198981198790
1198981198880) 1198661198791198661198881198981015840
1198880)
sdot
1 + 120582
2
119875
1199011(119904) =
(3 minus 41205830) Δ119869
((5 minus 61205830) 3) (1119866
0(119904)) + ((119866
11987911989811988811198991015840
1198881minus 11986611987911989911988811198981015840
1198881+ 1198661198881198981198791
1198981198881) (1198661198791198991015840
1198881+ 1198661198881198981198791
) 119866119888)
sdot
1 minus 120582
2
119875
1199021(119904) =
(3 minus 41205830) Δ119869
((1198661198791198991015840
1198881+ 1198661198881198981198791
) 1198661198791198981015840
1198881) ((5 minus 6120583
0) 3) (1119866
0(119904)) + ((119866
11987911989811988811198991015840
1198881minus 11986611987911989911988811198981015840
1198881+ 1198661198881198981198791
1198981198881) 1198661198791198661198881198981015840
1198881)
sdot
1 minus 120582
2
119875
(22)
44 Analytical Solution for 3-Parameter Solid Model For thetime-dependent behavior of soft or highly jointed rock massor rock mass with high in situ stress the 3-parameter solidmodelmay be commonly employed as shown in Figure 4 theshear creep compliance is written as
119869 (119905) =
1
1198661
+
1
1198662
(1 minus exp(minus
1198662119905
120578
)) (23)
where1198661 1198662are the shear moduli and 120578 is the viscosity coef-
ficientsThe differential equation of 3-parameter solid model can
be written as
1 + 1198753 = 119876
3120574 + 119876
4 (24)
6 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
G1
G2
120578
Figure 4 Sketch of 3-parameter solid model
where
1198753=
120578
1198661+ 1198662
1198763=
11986611198662
1198661+ 1198662
1198764=
1205781198661
1198661+ 1198662
(25)
Then the contact pressure on the transducer can be ob-tained
119902 (119905) = 1199020(119905) + 119902
1(119905) cos 2120579 =
1 + 120582
2
119875(1 minus
119866infin
119866ini)
sdot
exp (minus11986621199050120578)
1198771+ 119866infin1198772
(1 minus exp(minus
1198771+ 11987631198772
11987531198771+ 11987641198772
119905))
+
1 minus 120582
2
(3 minus 41205830) 119875(1 minus
119866infin
119866ini)
sdot
exp (minus11986621199050120578)
1198773+ 119866infin1198774
(1 minus exp(minus
1198773+ 11987631198774
11987531198773+ 11987641198774
119905))
sdot cos 2120579
(26)
where119866infin
= 11986611198662(1198661+1198662) is the long-term shearmodulus
119866ini = 1198661is the initial shear modulus and
1198771=
1198661198791198991015840
1198880+ 1198661198881198981198790
1198661198791198981015840
1198880
1198772=
1198661198791198991015840
1198881+ 1198661198881198981198791
1198661198791198981015840
1198881
5 minus 61205830
3
1198773=
11986611987911989811988801198991015840
1198880minus 11986611987911989911988801198981015840
1198880+ 1198661198881198981198790
1198981198880
1198661198791198661198881198981015840
1198880
1198774=
11986611987911989811988811198991015840
1198881minus 11986611987911989911988811198981015840
1198881+ 1198661198881198981198791
1198981198881
1198661198791198661198881198981015840
1198881
(27)
Paying attention to the analytical expression derived forthe contact pressure on the transducer (119902(119905)) for 3-parametersolid model instead it can be found that the stable contactpressure on the transducer (119902(infin)) is dependent mainly onthe mechanical properties of the rock mass the solidificationtime of the grout (119905
0) and the shear moduli of the grout
layer as shown in (26) With the decrease of the long-term shear modulus of the rock the contact pressure on the
0 200 400 600 800 100000
01
02
03
04
05
06
t (h)
q(t
)1205900
t0 = 0
t0 = 10ht0 = 20ht0 = 50h
t0 = 100ht0 = 200ht0 = 500h
Figure 5 The ratio of the contact pressure (119902(119905)) on the transducerto the in situ stress calculated at 120579 = 0
∘ for various solidificationtimes
transducer increases In order to expound the effects of thegrout solidification time (119905
0) the shear moduli of the grout
and the properties of the rock mass on the contact pressures(119902(119905)) parametric investigations have been presented here
Regarding the geometrical properties of this problem wehave 119903
0= 65mm 119903
1= 55mm 119903
2= 50mm 119875 = 1MPa and
120582 = 12 The values of the mechanical properties are 119866119888
=
4GPa 120583119888= 035 119866
119879= 80GPa and 120583
119879= 025 According to
the experiment tests and back analysis [20 25] the followingvalues can be assumed 119866
1= 2576MPa 119866
2= 1903MPa 120578 =
31671198905MPasdoth and 1205830
= 035 for 3-parameter solid modelFor the sake of explanation the ratio of the contact pressureto the in situ stress will be presented in Figures 5 6 and 7
The solidification time of the grout is assumed to be sevenvalues 0 10 h 20 h 50 h 100 h 200 h and 500 h The generaltrend is that the contact pressures increase gradually andreach stability after a period of time
In Figure 5 it can be found that the contact pressureson the transducer develop to be stable over time When thesolidification time increases the ratio of the stable contactpressure to the in situ stress decreases from 60 to 0 Thusit can be concluded that the less solidification time will bebeneficial for the recovery of the contact pressure on thetransducer
45 Influence of the ShearModulus of the GroutMaterial Theshear modulus of the transducer is a fixed value of 80GPaNine values of the modulus of the grout material (119866
119888) are
selected and the transducer-groutmodulus ratios are 1 1 2 15 1 10 1 25 1 50 1 100 1 200 1 and 500 1 respectivelyThe influence of the shear modulus of the grout material isanalyzed for a solidification time of 119905
0= 10 h
In Figure 6 the results of the ratio of the contact pressures(119902(119905)) on the transducer to the in situ stress calculated at
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 7
0 200 400 600 800 100000
01
02
03
04
05
06
t (h)
q(t
)1205900
Gc GT = 1 1Gc GT = 1 10Gc GT = 1 100Gc GT = 1 2Gc GT = 1 25
Gc GT = 1 200Gc GT = 1 5Gc GT = 1 50Gc GT = 1 500
(a)
0 100 200 300 400 500
025
030
035
040
045
050
055
060
Ratio
of s
tabl
e rec
over
y str
ess t
o in
situ
stre
ss
GTGc
(b)
Figure 6 Results for different shear moduli of the grout material (a) ratio of the contact pressure (119902(119905)) to in situ stress (b) ratio of stablerecovery stress to in situ stress
120579 = 0∘ with different shear moduli of the grout material are
plotted It can be found that the contact pressure increasesgradually and reaches stability after a period of time andthe ratio of the stable recovery pressure on the transducerto the in situ stress first increases and then decreases withthe increase of transducer-grout modulus ratio as shownin Figure 6 When the transducer-grout modulus ratio isbetween 20 1 and 50 1 the stable recovery pressure on thetransducer reaches the maximum value (about 60 of thein situ stress) From these figures it emerges that suitablegroutmaterial is important for transducers to achieve optimalstresses The type of the grout material should be determinedafter the mix proportion test before field application Thegrout material used in the field test should have goodmechanical properties and are made into samples to measurethemechanical parameters in the lab Moreover it is essentialto carry out calibration tests for the transducer using differentgrouting materials before its field application
46 Influence of the Properties of the Rock Mass To illustratethe influence of the properties of the rock mass on therecovery stresses measured by the transducer an example ispresented herein The properties of the grouting material areassumed to be the same with that of rock masses The shearmodulus 119866
1is fixed and 119866
2are assumed to be six different
values and the ratio of the initial modulus 119866ini to the long-termmodulus 119866
infinis 12 15 2 3 5 11 21 and 51 accordingly
The results have been shown in Figure 7In Figure 7(a) it can be found that the recovery stresses
measured by the transducer increase gradually and reachstability after a period of time From Figure 7(b) withthe reduction of the long-term modulus 119866
infin that is the
increase of themodulus ratio1198660119866infin the final recovery stress
increasesWhen themodulus ratio is greater than 10 the finalrecovery stress gradually turns to be stable and is above 90of the initial stress From the figures it emerges that if the rockmass has a better rheological property the recovery stressmeasured by the transducer is more close to the initial stressMoreover in practical measurement the final recovery ratiocan be obtained from the initial long-term modulus ratio1198660119866infinwhich can be calculated through creep experiment of
rockmasses according to the curves in Figure 7(b) and the insitu stress can be evaluated from the final recovery ratio andthe practical measured recovery stresses
5 Field Test
The in situ stressmeasurements were carried out in Pingding-shan Number 1 coal mine situated in Henan Provincenorthern China as shown in Figure 8 The Pingdingshancoalfield is about 38 km long EndashW and 20 km wide NndashS and the coal-bearing sediments are mostly of Permianage mainly comprising sandstone sandy mudstone andcarbonaceous shale besides coals which are overlain by theTertiary andQuaternary deposits [27]The general structuralconfiguration of Pingdingshan coal mine is a series of NWfolds in which the major one is Likou syncline It is a broadand gentle fold appearing as a brush structure converging tothe southeast and diverging to the northwest There are someother secondary folds in this area for example Guozhuanganticline Niuzhuang syncline and Zhugemiao anticline inthe south of Likou syncline and Baishigou anticline Ling-wushan syncline and Xiangxia fault in the north of Likousyncline
8 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
0 200 400 600 800 100000
02
04
06
08
10
t (h)
q(t
)1205900
G1G2 = 1 5G1G2 = 4 1G1G2 = 1 2G1G2 = 10 1
G1G2 = 1 1G1G2 = 20 1G1G2 = 2 1G1G2 = 50 1
(a)
0 10 20 30 40 5001
02
03
04
05
06
07
08
09
10
Fina
l rec
over
y str
ess r
atio
GiniGinfin
(b)
Figure 7 Results for different rock properties (a) ratio of the contact pressure (119902(119905)) to in situ stress (b) ratio of stable recovery stress to insitu stress
Table 1 In situ stress magnitudes by overcoring technique using different elastic parameters at the horizontal borehole
Parameter 1205901
1205902
1205903
119864 (GPa) ] Magnitude (MPa) Azimuth (∘) Dip (∘) Magnitude (MPa) Azimuth (∘) Dip (∘) Magnitude (MPa) Azimuth (∘) Dip (∘)5 031 2292 14556 445 1829 33199 8553 1501 23559 0508 031 3445 14315 507 2720 34827 8440 2266 23336 237
The test site of Pingdingshan Number 1 coal mine islocated at a track-dip tunnel with a vertical buried depthof about 877m the lithology of which is dark gray sandymudstone The in situ stress measurements were carried outin both horizontal and vertical boreholes with 30m in depthand 130mm in diameter The sketch of borehole layout isshown in Figure 9 The horizontal borehole was inclined tothe horizontal plane at 10∘ Before the application of theRSR method overcoring technique was carried out in thehorizontal borehole according to the ISTM standard [28]After overcoring the rock core including the hollow inclusiongaugewas calibrated in the calibration instrument In order toobtain themechanical parametersmore accurately rock coresdrilled from the testing borehole were prepared into standardspecimens with 50mm in diameter and 100mm in lengthThe elastic parameters were determined by several specimensfrom uniaxial compression experiment in lab Then theTDPTs were installed at the overcoring position accordingto the testing procedures of RSR method The appropriategrouting materials were selected after a mix design in the labto make the property of grouting materials close to that ofrock masses
6 Results and Discussion
The overcoring test was first finished in horizontal boreholeat Number 1 coal mine and the curves of microstrain values
versus the overcoring depth were given in Figure 10 Basedon the test of elastic parameters of rock mass the elasticmodulus varies in a range (5GPasim8GPa) and the calculatedin situ stresses using different elastic modulus are shown inTable 1 It can be found that themagnitudes of three principalstress components increase as elastic modulus 119864 increaseswhereas their azimuth and dip angles are maintained nearlythe same Ge and Hou [29] have found that when Poissonrsquosratio ] is constant the magnitudes of three principal stresseswill increase (or decrease) with the increase (or decrease) of119864 Therefore the principal stress magnitudes of overcoringtechnique vary in a range
The monitor of the recovery stresses using TDPTsand temperature changes in both horizontal and verticalboreholes at Pingdingshan Number 1 coal mine has beenrecorded for a period of about 500 days It should be notedthat the calibration coefficients of each sensing face weredetermined by calibration test using the actual groutingmaterial and the influence of the environmental temperatureon the transducer is analyzed and compensated For thesake of brief only the results of horizontal borehole inPingdingshan Number 1 coal mine are shown in Figure 11It is clear that the recovery stress measured by all sensingfaces in different directions increases gradually to be stablealthough the rate of stress recovery decreases with timeAccording to the analytical results of the relationship between
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 9
Syncline
N
Anticline
Normal fault
Reverse fault
Coal mine
Likou syncline
Niuzhuang syncline
Baishigou anticline
Guozhuang anticline
Xiangxia fault
Lingwushan syncline
Guodishan
normal fault
Xiaxian
fault
No 9
No 5
No 7No 2
No 8
No 1
No 10
No 12
No 4
No 6No 11
No 3
Beijing
Test area
Pingdingshan city
150
(km)
Figure 8 Schematic map of the Pingdingshan coal mine [27]
Roadway
Horizontal borehole
Vert
ical
bor
ehol
e
10∘
Depth = 30m diameter = 130mm
Dep
th=30
m d
iam
eter=130
mm
Figure 9 Sketch of the borehole layout
the final recovery stress and initial stress and the ratio ofthe initial modulus to the long-term modulus (119866ini119866infin asymp
18) from experimental tests the final recovery ratio can bedetermined (about 045) Then the initial stresses verticalto each sensing face can be calculated and inserted into the
calculation formulation (1) to obtain the stress tensor in localcoordinate system and the principal stress components inglobal coordinate system can be calculated using coordinatetransformation The results of the magnitude azimuth anddip angle of three principal stresses in both horizontal andvertical boreholes in Pingdingshan Number 1 coal mine arelisted in Table 2 All the test results show that the orientationof the maximum principal stress 120590
1and the minimum stress
1205903is approximately in the horizontal plane and that of the
intermediate principal stress is nearly verticalFrom Tables 1 and 2 it can be found that the princi-
pal stress magnitudes of overcoring vary in a range whenselecting different elastic parameters and the results of RSRmethod are within this range The orientations of principalstresses by both overcoring technique and RSR method aredrawn in the stereographic projection shown in Figure 11Thedominant orientations of the maximum principal stress arealmost the same for both the overcoring technique and RSRmethod Pingdingshan region has experienced three obvioustectonic movements in the geologic history the Indosinianmovement during theTriassic period theYanshanmovementduring the Mesozoic period and the Himalayan movementduring the Neozoic period Accordingly the direction of themajor principle stress in this region has shifted from NE-SW
10 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Table 2 In situ stress magnitudes by RSR method at the horizontal and vertical boreholes
Boreholeposition
1205901
1205902
1205903
Magnitude (MPa) Azimuth (∘) Dip (∘) Magnitude (MPa) Azimuth (∘) Dip (∘) Magnitude (MPa) Azimuth (∘) Dip (∘)Horizontal 2821 14887 378 2050 30664 8592 1780 5877 154Vertical 3056 1096 1511 2142 4583 7484 1994 1929 117
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
0
1000
2000
3000
4000
5000
6000
Mic
rostr
ain
valu
e
Overcoring depth (cm)
Channel 1 Channel 7Channel 2 Channel 8Channel 3 Channel 9Channel 4 Channel 10Channel 5 Channel 11Channel 6 Channel 12
minus1000
Figure 10 Stress relief curves during the overcoring of horizontalborehole at Number 1 coal mine
to NW-SE then to approximately EW [30] Figure 12 showsthat the major principle stress directions of testing pointsare mostly NW-SE and agree with those in the second andthird tectonicmovements which reveals that the in situ stressfield at present is caused primarily by the latter two tectonicmovements Therefore it can be said that the result from theRSR method is reliable and the new method for in situ stressmeasurement can be used to measure rock stresses
Through the practical application of the overcoring tech-nique and RSR method for in situ stress measurement inPingdingshan Number 1 coal mine it can be found that theRSR method may be a maneuverable and effective techniquein deep soft rock The accuracy of elastic parameters has agreat influence on the calculated results of stress magnitudesand orientations for overcoring technique However theexact elastic parameters of rockmass seemnot very necessaryfor RSRmethod with respect to conventional methods In theRSRmethod the stress values in different orientations can bemeasured by the pressure transducer directly and can be usedto calculate the stress tensor The accuracy of stress valuesis dependent on the calibration factor of the transducer thatcan be obtained from calibration test Based on the results ofcurrent research [31] the variation of the elastic modulus ofsurrounding material has little influence on the calibrationfactor when the elastic modulus ratio of the transducer to
0 100 200 300 400 500
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
1234
56Temperature
Time (day)Re
cove
ry st
ress
(MPa
)
10
15
20
25
30
35
Tem
pera
ture
(∘C)
Figure 11 Stress recovery process in the horizontal borehole ofPingdingshan Number 1 coal mine
the surrounding material is large enough Therefore the truerock stresses can be inferred by the rough elastic parametersThe measuring errors of RSR method caused by the elasticparameters are less than that of the conventional methods
For the RSR method the main requirement of rock massis good in rheological property Moreover the greater thedepth of testing site the better as the in situ stress at greaterdepth is generally bigger In addition the grouting qualityis very important for the RSR method and the groutingshould be accomplished as soon as possible after drilling thehole The different lateral pressure coefficient may have aninfluence on the stress values measured by the transducerwhich is caused by the difference between the transducer andsurroundingmaterialThrough the model test and numericalsimulation it has been found that the measured stresses werelinear to the loading stresses for the hydrostatic stress loadingand the measured stresses were linear to both the loadingstresses in the same direction and the differential stressesof the other two directions for the nonhydrostatic stressloading [32] The actual stress values on each sensing facecan be deduced by the combination of calibration coefficientsand the measured stress values although the lateral pressurecoefficient 120582 is unknown
The transducers that the RSRmethod uses can be embed-ded not only in the initial stress area to obtain themagnitudesof original stress but also in the excavation damage zone tomonitor the stress state variation It has been found that the
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 11
N
Max mid and min principal stresses of horizontal borehole by RSRMax mid and min principal stresses of vertical borehole by RSR
Max mid and min principal stresses of E = 5GPa by overcoringMax mid and min principal stresses of E = 8GPa by overcoring
Figure 12 Orientations of principal stresses by both overcoring technique and RSR method
stressmeter that is installed in a specimen under loadwill pickup the absolute ambient stress in the host when observed overa period of time concurrently it responded immediately toan increase of stress generated in the host after the time of itsinsertion [33]
The RSR method is used to measure the in situ stressbased on the rheological behavior of rock the longer themonitoring time is therefore the more precise the resultsbecome However further research is needed to see how tocalculate the stress state of one point through monitoring ina short time for engineering applications
7 Conclusions
For the measurement of the stress in deep soft rock a RSRmethod to determine the orientations and magnitudes of 3Din situ stress is proposed as well as its test equipment andprocess and analytical solutions were derived to analyze thecharacteristics of this method Then the RSR method aswell as overcoring technique was conducted in PingdingshanNumber 1 coal mine to measure both the in situ stressorientation and magnitude at a depth of 877m The resultsare summarized as follows
If the rock mass has a better rheological property therecovery stress measured by the transducer is more close tothe initial stress Moreover the grouting quality should beensured that the properties of grouting materials should beclose to that of rock masses in actual operation
These results tested by RSR method and overcoringtechnique are basically in the same order which validatesthat the RSR method is a useful method for deep soft rockmasses The major principal stresses are approximately in
the direction of NW-SE which correlates well with thestress regime of Pingdingshan zone known from the tectonicmovement history
The RSR method can be used to obtain more reliabledata when stress relief method cannot be applied in soft orhighly jointed rock masses under great depth Therefore itcan be said that the RSRmethodmay bewell suitable formorecomplicated geological conditions However more studiesare required to see how to calculate the stress state of onepoint through monitoring in a short time for engineeringapplications
Conflict of Interests
The authors declare that there is no conflict of interestsregarding the publication of this paper
Acknowledgments
This work is supported by the National Basic Research Pro-gram of China (ldquo973rdquo Program) (Grant no 2014CB046904)and theNationalNatural Science Foundation ofChina (Grantnos 41130742 and 11302242)
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Mathematical Problems in Engineering 5
1198911198883
= minus
1199034
0+ 31199032
01199032
1
3 (1199032
0minus 1199032
1)3
1198911198884
= minus
31199032
01199032
1+ 1199034
1
3 (1199032
0minus 1199032
1)3
1198911198885
=
31199036
01199034
1+ 1199034
01199036
1
3 (1199032
0minus 1199032
1)3
1198911198886
=
1199036
01199034
1+ 31199034
01199036
1
3 (1199032
0minus 1199032
1)3
1198911198887
= minus
21199036
01199032
1+ 1199034
01199034
1+ 1199032
01199036
1
(1199032
0minus 1199032
1)3
1198911198888
= minus
1199036
01199032
1+ 1199034
01199034
1+ 21199032
01199036
1
(1199032
0minus 1199032
1)3
(17)
The Laplace transform of the radial displacement of thetransducer on the interface (119903 = 119903
1) under nonuniform
contact pressure is expressed as follows
1199061198791
(1199031 119904) =
1199021(119904) 1199031
2119866119879
1198981198791
cos 2120579 (18)
where
1198981198791
= 1198911198791
minus 1198911198793
119903minus4
1+ 21205831198791198911198792
1199032
1minus 2 (1 minus 120583
119879) 1198911198794
119903minus2
1(19)
with
1198911198791
=
1199036
1+ 1199034
11199032
2+ 21199032
11199034
2
(1199032
1minus 1199032
2)3
1198911198792
= minus
1199034
1+ 31199032
11199032
2
3 (1199032
1minus 1199032
2)3
1198911198793
=
31199036
11199034
2+ 1199034
11199036
2
3 (1199032
1minus 1199032
2)3
1198911198794
= minus
21199036
11199032
2+ 1199034
11199034
2+ 1199032
11199036
2
(1199032
1minus 1199032
2)3
(20)
43 Determination of the Contact Pressures According to theboundary condition (4) the boundary compatibility condi-tions in the Laplace domain are
1199061199030
(1199030 119904) = 119906
1198880(1199030 119904)
1199061199031
(1199030 119904) = 119906
1198881(1199030 119904)
1199061015840
1198880(1199031 119904) = 119906
1198790(1199031 119904)
1199061015840
1198881(1199031 119904) = 119906
1198791(1199031 119904)
(21)
Submitting (10)ndash(18) into (21) the following can be ob-tained
1199010(119904) =
Δ119869
11198660(119904) + ((119866
11987911989811988801198991015840
1198880minus 11986611987911989911988801198981015840
1198880+ 1198661198881198981198790
1198981198880) (1198661198791198991015840
1198880+ 1198661198881198981198790
) 119866119888)
sdot
1 + 120582
2
119875
1199020(119904) =
Δ119869
((1198661198791198661198881198991015840
1198880+ 1198662
1198881198981198790
) 1198661198791198661198881198981015840
1198880) (1119866
0(119904)) + ((119866
11987911989811988801198991015840
1198880minus 11986611987911989911988801198981015840
1198880+ 1198661198881198981198790
1198981198880) 1198661198791198661198881198981015840
1198880)
sdot
1 + 120582
2
119875
1199011(119904) =
(3 minus 41205830) Δ119869
((5 minus 61205830) 3) (1119866
0(119904)) + ((119866
11987911989811988811198991015840
1198881minus 11986611987911989911988811198981015840
1198881+ 1198661198881198981198791
1198981198881) (1198661198791198991015840
1198881+ 1198661198881198981198791
) 119866119888)
sdot
1 minus 120582
2
119875
1199021(119904) =
(3 minus 41205830) Δ119869
((1198661198791198991015840
1198881+ 1198661198881198981198791
) 1198661198791198981015840
1198881) ((5 minus 6120583
0) 3) (1119866
0(119904)) + ((119866
11987911989811988811198991015840
1198881minus 11986611987911989911988811198981015840
1198881+ 1198661198881198981198791
1198981198881) 1198661198791198661198881198981015840
1198881)
sdot
1 minus 120582
2
119875
(22)
44 Analytical Solution for 3-Parameter Solid Model For thetime-dependent behavior of soft or highly jointed rock massor rock mass with high in situ stress the 3-parameter solidmodelmay be commonly employed as shown in Figure 4 theshear creep compliance is written as
119869 (119905) =
1
1198661
+
1
1198662
(1 minus exp(minus
1198662119905
120578
)) (23)
where1198661 1198662are the shear moduli and 120578 is the viscosity coef-
ficientsThe differential equation of 3-parameter solid model can
be written as
1 + 1198753 = 119876
3120574 + 119876
4 (24)
6 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
G1
G2
120578
Figure 4 Sketch of 3-parameter solid model
where
1198753=
120578
1198661+ 1198662
1198763=
11986611198662
1198661+ 1198662
1198764=
1205781198661
1198661+ 1198662
(25)
Then the contact pressure on the transducer can be ob-tained
119902 (119905) = 1199020(119905) + 119902
1(119905) cos 2120579 =
1 + 120582
2
119875(1 minus
119866infin
119866ini)
sdot
exp (minus11986621199050120578)
1198771+ 119866infin1198772
(1 minus exp(minus
1198771+ 11987631198772
11987531198771+ 11987641198772
119905))
+
1 minus 120582
2
(3 minus 41205830) 119875(1 minus
119866infin
119866ini)
sdot
exp (minus11986621199050120578)
1198773+ 119866infin1198774
(1 minus exp(minus
1198773+ 11987631198774
11987531198773+ 11987641198774
119905))
sdot cos 2120579
(26)
where119866infin
= 11986611198662(1198661+1198662) is the long-term shearmodulus
119866ini = 1198661is the initial shear modulus and
1198771=
1198661198791198991015840
1198880+ 1198661198881198981198790
1198661198791198981015840
1198880
1198772=
1198661198791198991015840
1198881+ 1198661198881198981198791
1198661198791198981015840
1198881
5 minus 61205830
3
1198773=
11986611987911989811988801198991015840
1198880minus 11986611987911989911988801198981015840
1198880+ 1198661198881198981198790
1198981198880
1198661198791198661198881198981015840
1198880
1198774=
11986611987911989811988811198991015840
1198881minus 11986611987911989911988811198981015840
1198881+ 1198661198881198981198791
1198981198881
1198661198791198661198881198981015840
1198881
(27)
Paying attention to the analytical expression derived forthe contact pressure on the transducer (119902(119905)) for 3-parametersolid model instead it can be found that the stable contactpressure on the transducer (119902(infin)) is dependent mainly onthe mechanical properties of the rock mass the solidificationtime of the grout (119905
0) and the shear moduli of the grout
layer as shown in (26) With the decrease of the long-term shear modulus of the rock the contact pressure on the
0 200 400 600 800 100000
01
02
03
04
05
06
t (h)
q(t
)1205900
t0 = 0
t0 = 10ht0 = 20ht0 = 50h
t0 = 100ht0 = 200ht0 = 500h
Figure 5 The ratio of the contact pressure (119902(119905)) on the transducerto the in situ stress calculated at 120579 = 0
∘ for various solidificationtimes
transducer increases In order to expound the effects of thegrout solidification time (119905
0) the shear moduli of the grout
and the properties of the rock mass on the contact pressures(119902(119905)) parametric investigations have been presented here
Regarding the geometrical properties of this problem wehave 119903
0= 65mm 119903
1= 55mm 119903
2= 50mm 119875 = 1MPa and
120582 = 12 The values of the mechanical properties are 119866119888
=
4GPa 120583119888= 035 119866
119879= 80GPa and 120583
119879= 025 According to
the experiment tests and back analysis [20 25] the followingvalues can be assumed 119866
1= 2576MPa 119866
2= 1903MPa 120578 =
31671198905MPasdoth and 1205830
= 035 for 3-parameter solid modelFor the sake of explanation the ratio of the contact pressureto the in situ stress will be presented in Figures 5 6 and 7
The solidification time of the grout is assumed to be sevenvalues 0 10 h 20 h 50 h 100 h 200 h and 500 h The generaltrend is that the contact pressures increase gradually andreach stability after a period of time
In Figure 5 it can be found that the contact pressureson the transducer develop to be stable over time When thesolidification time increases the ratio of the stable contactpressure to the in situ stress decreases from 60 to 0 Thusit can be concluded that the less solidification time will bebeneficial for the recovery of the contact pressure on thetransducer
45 Influence of the ShearModulus of the GroutMaterial Theshear modulus of the transducer is a fixed value of 80GPaNine values of the modulus of the grout material (119866
119888) are
selected and the transducer-groutmodulus ratios are 1 1 2 15 1 10 1 25 1 50 1 100 1 200 1 and 500 1 respectivelyThe influence of the shear modulus of the grout material isanalyzed for a solidification time of 119905
0= 10 h
In Figure 6 the results of the ratio of the contact pressures(119902(119905)) on the transducer to the in situ stress calculated at
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 7
0 200 400 600 800 100000
01
02
03
04
05
06
t (h)
q(t
)1205900
Gc GT = 1 1Gc GT = 1 10Gc GT = 1 100Gc GT = 1 2Gc GT = 1 25
Gc GT = 1 200Gc GT = 1 5Gc GT = 1 50Gc GT = 1 500
(a)
0 100 200 300 400 500
025
030
035
040
045
050
055
060
Ratio
of s
tabl
e rec
over
y str
ess t
o in
situ
stre
ss
GTGc
(b)
Figure 6 Results for different shear moduli of the grout material (a) ratio of the contact pressure (119902(119905)) to in situ stress (b) ratio of stablerecovery stress to in situ stress
120579 = 0∘ with different shear moduli of the grout material are
plotted It can be found that the contact pressure increasesgradually and reaches stability after a period of time andthe ratio of the stable recovery pressure on the transducerto the in situ stress first increases and then decreases withthe increase of transducer-grout modulus ratio as shownin Figure 6 When the transducer-grout modulus ratio isbetween 20 1 and 50 1 the stable recovery pressure on thetransducer reaches the maximum value (about 60 of thein situ stress) From these figures it emerges that suitablegroutmaterial is important for transducers to achieve optimalstresses The type of the grout material should be determinedafter the mix proportion test before field application Thegrout material used in the field test should have goodmechanical properties and are made into samples to measurethemechanical parameters in the lab Moreover it is essentialto carry out calibration tests for the transducer using differentgrouting materials before its field application
46 Influence of the Properties of the Rock Mass To illustratethe influence of the properties of the rock mass on therecovery stresses measured by the transducer an example ispresented herein The properties of the grouting material areassumed to be the same with that of rock masses The shearmodulus 119866
1is fixed and 119866
2are assumed to be six different
values and the ratio of the initial modulus 119866ini to the long-termmodulus 119866
infinis 12 15 2 3 5 11 21 and 51 accordingly
The results have been shown in Figure 7In Figure 7(a) it can be found that the recovery stresses
measured by the transducer increase gradually and reachstability after a period of time From Figure 7(b) withthe reduction of the long-term modulus 119866
infin that is the
increase of themodulus ratio1198660119866infin the final recovery stress
increasesWhen themodulus ratio is greater than 10 the finalrecovery stress gradually turns to be stable and is above 90of the initial stress From the figures it emerges that if the rockmass has a better rheological property the recovery stressmeasured by the transducer is more close to the initial stressMoreover in practical measurement the final recovery ratiocan be obtained from the initial long-term modulus ratio1198660119866infinwhich can be calculated through creep experiment of
rockmasses according to the curves in Figure 7(b) and the insitu stress can be evaluated from the final recovery ratio andthe practical measured recovery stresses
5 Field Test
The in situ stressmeasurements were carried out in Pingding-shan Number 1 coal mine situated in Henan Provincenorthern China as shown in Figure 8 The Pingdingshancoalfield is about 38 km long EndashW and 20 km wide NndashS and the coal-bearing sediments are mostly of Permianage mainly comprising sandstone sandy mudstone andcarbonaceous shale besides coals which are overlain by theTertiary andQuaternary deposits [27]The general structuralconfiguration of Pingdingshan coal mine is a series of NWfolds in which the major one is Likou syncline It is a broadand gentle fold appearing as a brush structure converging tothe southeast and diverging to the northwest There are someother secondary folds in this area for example Guozhuanganticline Niuzhuang syncline and Zhugemiao anticline inthe south of Likou syncline and Baishigou anticline Ling-wushan syncline and Xiangxia fault in the north of Likousyncline
8 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
0 200 400 600 800 100000
02
04
06
08
10
t (h)
q(t
)1205900
G1G2 = 1 5G1G2 = 4 1G1G2 = 1 2G1G2 = 10 1
G1G2 = 1 1G1G2 = 20 1G1G2 = 2 1G1G2 = 50 1
(a)
0 10 20 30 40 5001
02
03
04
05
06
07
08
09
10
Fina
l rec
over
y str
ess r
atio
GiniGinfin
(b)
Figure 7 Results for different rock properties (a) ratio of the contact pressure (119902(119905)) to in situ stress (b) ratio of stable recovery stress to insitu stress
Table 1 In situ stress magnitudes by overcoring technique using different elastic parameters at the horizontal borehole
Parameter 1205901
1205902
1205903
119864 (GPa) ] Magnitude (MPa) Azimuth (∘) Dip (∘) Magnitude (MPa) Azimuth (∘) Dip (∘) Magnitude (MPa) Azimuth (∘) Dip (∘)5 031 2292 14556 445 1829 33199 8553 1501 23559 0508 031 3445 14315 507 2720 34827 8440 2266 23336 237
The test site of Pingdingshan Number 1 coal mine islocated at a track-dip tunnel with a vertical buried depthof about 877m the lithology of which is dark gray sandymudstone The in situ stress measurements were carried outin both horizontal and vertical boreholes with 30m in depthand 130mm in diameter The sketch of borehole layout isshown in Figure 9 The horizontal borehole was inclined tothe horizontal plane at 10∘ Before the application of theRSR method overcoring technique was carried out in thehorizontal borehole according to the ISTM standard [28]After overcoring the rock core including the hollow inclusiongaugewas calibrated in the calibration instrument In order toobtain themechanical parametersmore accurately rock coresdrilled from the testing borehole were prepared into standardspecimens with 50mm in diameter and 100mm in lengthThe elastic parameters were determined by several specimensfrom uniaxial compression experiment in lab Then theTDPTs were installed at the overcoring position accordingto the testing procedures of RSR method The appropriategrouting materials were selected after a mix design in the labto make the property of grouting materials close to that ofrock masses
6 Results and Discussion
The overcoring test was first finished in horizontal boreholeat Number 1 coal mine and the curves of microstrain values
versus the overcoring depth were given in Figure 10 Basedon the test of elastic parameters of rock mass the elasticmodulus varies in a range (5GPasim8GPa) and the calculatedin situ stresses using different elastic modulus are shown inTable 1 It can be found that themagnitudes of three principalstress components increase as elastic modulus 119864 increaseswhereas their azimuth and dip angles are maintained nearlythe same Ge and Hou [29] have found that when Poissonrsquosratio ] is constant the magnitudes of three principal stresseswill increase (or decrease) with the increase (or decrease) of119864 Therefore the principal stress magnitudes of overcoringtechnique vary in a range
The monitor of the recovery stresses using TDPTsand temperature changes in both horizontal and verticalboreholes at Pingdingshan Number 1 coal mine has beenrecorded for a period of about 500 days It should be notedthat the calibration coefficients of each sensing face weredetermined by calibration test using the actual groutingmaterial and the influence of the environmental temperatureon the transducer is analyzed and compensated For thesake of brief only the results of horizontal borehole inPingdingshan Number 1 coal mine are shown in Figure 11It is clear that the recovery stress measured by all sensingfaces in different directions increases gradually to be stablealthough the rate of stress recovery decreases with timeAccording to the analytical results of the relationship between
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 9
Syncline
N
Anticline
Normal fault
Reverse fault
Coal mine
Likou syncline
Niuzhuang syncline
Baishigou anticline
Guozhuang anticline
Xiangxia fault
Lingwushan syncline
Guodishan
normal fault
Xiaxian
fault
No 9
No 5
No 7No 2
No 8
No 1
No 10
No 12
No 4
No 6No 11
No 3
Beijing
Test area
Pingdingshan city
150
(km)
Figure 8 Schematic map of the Pingdingshan coal mine [27]
Roadway
Horizontal borehole
Vert
ical
bor
ehol
e
10∘
Depth = 30m diameter = 130mm
Dep
th=30
m d
iam
eter=130
mm
Figure 9 Sketch of the borehole layout
the final recovery stress and initial stress and the ratio ofthe initial modulus to the long-term modulus (119866ini119866infin asymp
18) from experimental tests the final recovery ratio can bedetermined (about 045) Then the initial stresses verticalto each sensing face can be calculated and inserted into the
calculation formulation (1) to obtain the stress tensor in localcoordinate system and the principal stress components inglobal coordinate system can be calculated using coordinatetransformation The results of the magnitude azimuth anddip angle of three principal stresses in both horizontal andvertical boreholes in Pingdingshan Number 1 coal mine arelisted in Table 2 All the test results show that the orientationof the maximum principal stress 120590
1and the minimum stress
1205903is approximately in the horizontal plane and that of the
intermediate principal stress is nearly verticalFrom Tables 1 and 2 it can be found that the princi-
pal stress magnitudes of overcoring vary in a range whenselecting different elastic parameters and the results of RSRmethod are within this range The orientations of principalstresses by both overcoring technique and RSR method aredrawn in the stereographic projection shown in Figure 11Thedominant orientations of the maximum principal stress arealmost the same for both the overcoring technique and RSRmethod Pingdingshan region has experienced three obvioustectonic movements in the geologic history the Indosinianmovement during theTriassic period theYanshanmovementduring the Mesozoic period and the Himalayan movementduring the Neozoic period Accordingly the direction of themajor principle stress in this region has shifted from NE-SW
10 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Table 2 In situ stress magnitudes by RSR method at the horizontal and vertical boreholes
Boreholeposition
1205901
1205902
1205903
Magnitude (MPa) Azimuth (∘) Dip (∘) Magnitude (MPa) Azimuth (∘) Dip (∘) Magnitude (MPa) Azimuth (∘) Dip (∘)Horizontal 2821 14887 378 2050 30664 8592 1780 5877 154Vertical 3056 1096 1511 2142 4583 7484 1994 1929 117
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
0
1000
2000
3000
4000
5000
6000
Mic
rostr
ain
valu
e
Overcoring depth (cm)
Channel 1 Channel 7Channel 2 Channel 8Channel 3 Channel 9Channel 4 Channel 10Channel 5 Channel 11Channel 6 Channel 12
minus1000
Figure 10 Stress relief curves during the overcoring of horizontalborehole at Number 1 coal mine
to NW-SE then to approximately EW [30] Figure 12 showsthat the major principle stress directions of testing pointsare mostly NW-SE and agree with those in the second andthird tectonicmovements which reveals that the in situ stressfield at present is caused primarily by the latter two tectonicmovements Therefore it can be said that the result from theRSR method is reliable and the new method for in situ stressmeasurement can be used to measure rock stresses
Through the practical application of the overcoring tech-nique and RSR method for in situ stress measurement inPingdingshan Number 1 coal mine it can be found that theRSR method may be a maneuverable and effective techniquein deep soft rock The accuracy of elastic parameters has agreat influence on the calculated results of stress magnitudesand orientations for overcoring technique However theexact elastic parameters of rockmass seemnot very necessaryfor RSRmethod with respect to conventional methods In theRSRmethod the stress values in different orientations can bemeasured by the pressure transducer directly and can be usedto calculate the stress tensor The accuracy of stress valuesis dependent on the calibration factor of the transducer thatcan be obtained from calibration test Based on the results ofcurrent research [31] the variation of the elastic modulus ofsurrounding material has little influence on the calibrationfactor when the elastic modulus ratio of the transducer to
0 100 200 300 400 500
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
1234
56Temperature
Time (day)Re
cove
ry st
ress
(MPa
)
10
15
20
25
30
35
Tem
pera
ture
(∘C)
Figure 11 Stress recovery process in the horizontal borehole ofPingdingshan Number 1 coal mine
the surrounding material is large enough Therefore the truerock stresses can be inferred by the rough elastic parametersThe measuring errors of RSR method caused by the elasticparameters are less than that of the conventional methods
For the RSR method the main requirement of rock massis good in rheological property Moreover the greater thedepth of testing site the better as the in situ stress at greaterdepth is generally bigger In addition the grouting qualityis very important for the RSR method and the groutingshould be accomplished as soon as possible after drilling thehole The different lateral pressure coefficient may have aninfluence on the stress values measured by the transducerwhich is caused by the difference between the transducer andsurroundingmaterialThrough the model test and numericalsimulation it has been found that the measured stresses werelinear to the loading stresses for the hydrostatic stress loadingand the measured stresses were linear to both the loadingstresses in the same direction and the differential stressesof the other two directions for the nonhydrostatic stressloading [32] The actual stress values on each sensing facecan be deduced by the combination of calibration coefficientsand the measured stress values although the lateral pressurecoefficient 120582 is unknown
The transducers that the RSRmethod uses can be embed-ded not only in the initial stress area to obtain themagnitudesof original stress but also in the excavation damage zone tomonitor the stress state variation It has been found that the
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 11
N
Max mid and min principal stresses of horizontal borehole by RSRMax mid and min principal stresses of vertical borehole by RSR
Max mid and min principal stresses of E = 5GPa by overcoringMax mid and min principal stresses of E = 8GPa by overcoring
Figure 12 Orientations of principal stresses by both overcoring technique and RSR method
stressmeter that is installed in a specimen under loadwill pickup the absolute ambient stress in the host when observed overa period of time concurrently it responded immediately toan increase of stress generated in the host after the time of itsinsertion [33]
The RSR method is used to measure the in situ stressbased on the rheological behavior of rock the longer themonitoring time is therefore the more precise the resultsbecome However further research is needed to see how tocalculate the stress state of one point through monitoring ina short time for engineering applications
7 Conclusions
For the measurement of the stress in deep soft rock a RSRmethod to determine the orientations and magnitudes of 3Din situ stress is proposed as well as its test equipment andprocess and analytical solutions were derived to analyze thecharacteristics of this method Then the RSR method aswell as overcoring technique was conducted in PingdingshanNumber 1 coal mine to measure both the in situ stressorientation and magnitude at a depth of 877m The resultsare summarized as follows
If the rock mass has a better rheological property therecovery stress measured by the transducer is more close tothe initial stress Moreover the grouting quality should beensured that the properties of grouting materials should beclose to that of rock masses in actual operation
These results tested by RSR method and overcoringtechnique are basically in the same order which validatesthat the RSR method is a useful method for deep soft rockmasses The major principal stresses are approximately in
the direction of NW-SE which correlates well with thestress regime of Pingdingshan zone known from the tectonicmovement history
The RSR method can be used to obtain more reliabledata when stress relief method cannot be applied in soft orhighly jointed rock masses under great depth Therefore itcan be said that the RSRmethodmay bewell suitable formorecomplicated geological conditions However more studiesare required to see how to calculate the stress state of onepoint through monitoring in a short time for engineeringapplications
Conflict of Interests
The authors declare that there is no conflict of interestsregarding the publication of this paper
Acknowledgments
This work is supported by the National Basic Research Pro-gram of China (ldquo973rdquo Program) (Grant no 2014CB046904)and theNationalNatural Science Foundation ofChina (Grantnos 41130742 and 11302242)
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6 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
G1
G2
120578
Figure 4 Sketch of 3-parameter solid model
where
1198753=
120578
1198661+ 1198662
1198763=
11986611198662
1198661+ 1198662
1198764=
1205781198661
1198661+ 1198662
(25)
Then the contact pressure on the transducer can be ob-tained
119902 (119905) = 1199020(119905) + 119902
1(119905) cos 2120579 =
1 + 120582
2
119875(1 minus
119866infin
119866ini)
sdot
exp (minus11986621199050120578)
1198771+ 119866infin1198772
(1 minus exp(minus
1198771+ 11987631198772
11987531198771+ 11987641198772
119905))
+
1 minus 120582
2
(3 minus 41205830) 119875(1 minus
119866infin
119866ini)
sdot
exp (minus11986621199050120578)
1198773+ 119866infin1198774
(1 minus exp(minus
1198773+ 11987631198774
11987531198773+ 11987641198774
119905))
sdot cos 2120579
(26)
where119866infin
= 11986611198662(1198661+1198662) is the long-term shearmodulus
119866ini = 1198661is the initial shear modulus and
1198771=
1198661198791198991015840
1198880+ 1198661198881198981198790
1198661198791198981015840
1198880
1198772=
1198661198791198991015840
1198881+ 1198661198881198981198791
1198661198791198981015840
1198881
5 minus 61205830
3
1198773=
11986611987911989811988801198991015840
1198880minus 11986611987911989911988801198981015840
1198880+ 1198661198881198981198790
1198981198880
1198661198791198661198881198981015840
1198880
1198774=
11986611987911989811988811198991015840
1198881minus 11986611987911989911988811198981015840
1198881+ 1198661198881198981198791
1198981198881
1198661198791198661198881198981015840
1198881
(27)
Paying attention to the analytical expression derived forthe contact pressure on the transducer (119902(119905)) for 3-parametersolid model instead it can be found that the stable contactpressure on the transducer (119902(infin)) is dependent mainly onthe mechanical properties of the rock mass the solidificationtime of the grout (119905
0) and the shear moduli of the grout
layer as shown in (26) With the decrease of the long-term shear modulus of the rock the contact pressure on the
0 200 400 600 800 100000
01
02
03
04
05
06
t (h)
q(t
)1205900
t0 = 0
t0 = 10ht0 = 20ht0 = 50h
t0 = 100ht0 = 200ht0 = 500h
Figure 5 The ratio of the contact pressure (119902(119905)) on the transducerto the in situ stress calculated at 120579 = 0
∘ for various solidificationtimes
transducer increases In order to expound the effects of thegrout solidification time (119905
0) the shear moduli of the grout
and the properties of the rock mass on the contact pressures(119902(119905)) parametric investigations have been presented here
Regarding the geometrical properties of this problem wehave 119903
0= 65mm 119903
1= 55mm 119903
2= 50mm 119875 = 1MPa and
120582 = 12 The values of the mechanical properties are 119866119888
=
4GPa 120583119888= 035 119866
119879= 80GPa and 120583
119879= 025 According to
the experiment tests and back analysis [20 25] the followingvalues can be assumed 119866
1= 2576MPa 119866
2= 1903MPa 120578 =
31671198905MPasdoth and 1205830
= 035 for 3-parameter solid modelFor the sake of explanation the ratio of the contact pressureto the in situ stress will be presented in Figures 5 6 and 7
The solidification time of the grout is assumed to be sevenvalues 0 10 h 20 h 50 h 100 h 200 h and 500 h The generaltrend is that the contact pressures increase gradually andreach stability after a period of time
In Figure 5 it can be found that the contact pressureson the transducer develop to be stable over time When thesolidification time increases the ratio of the stable contactpressure to the in situ stress decreases from 60 to 0 Thusit can be concluded that the less solidification time will bebeneficial for the recovery of the contact pressure on thetransducer
45 Influence of the ShearModulus of the GroutMaterial Theshear modulus of the transducer is a fixed value of 80GPaNine values of the modulus of the grout material (119866
119888) are
selected and the transducer-groutmodulus ratios are 1 1 2 15 1 10 1 25 1 50 1 100 1 200 1 and 500 1 respectivelyThe influence of the shear modulus of the grout material isanalyzed for a solidification time of 119905
0= 10 h
In Figure 6 the results of the ratio of the contact pressures(119902(119905)) on the transducer to the in situ stress calculated at
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 7
0 200 400 600 800 100000
01
02
03
04
05
06
t (h)
q(t
)1205900
Gc GT = 1 1Gc GT = 1 10Gc GT = 1 100Gc GT = 1 2Gc GT = 1 25
Gc GT = 1 200Gc GT = 1 5Gc GT = 1 50Gc GT = 1 500
(a)
0 100 200 300 400 500
025
030
035
040
045
050
055
060
Ratio
of s
tabl
e rec
over
y str
ess t
o in
situ
stre
ss
GTGc
(b)
Figure 6 Results for different shear moduli of the grout material (a) ratio of the contact pressure (119902(119905)) to in situ stress (b) ratio of stablerecovery stress to in situ stress
120579 = 0∘ with different shear moduli of the grout material are
plotted It can be found that the contact pressure increasesgradually and reaches stability after a period of time andthe ratio of the stable recovery pressure on the transducerto the in situ stress first increases and then decreases withthe increase of transducer-grout modulus ratio as shownin Figure 6 When the transducer-grout modulus ratio isbetween 20 1 and 50 1 the stable recovery pressure on thetransducer reaches the maximum value (about 60 of thein situ stress) From these figures it emerges that suitablegroutmaterial is important for transducers to achieve optimalstresses The type of the grout material should be determinedafter the mix proportion test before field application Thegrout material used in the field test should have goodmechanical properties and are made into samples to measurethemechanical parameters in the lab Moreover it is essentialto carry out calibration tests for the transducer using differentgrouting materials before its field application
46 Influence of the Properties of the Rock Mass To illustratethe influence of the properties of the rock mass on therecovery stresses measured by the transducer an example ispresented herein The properties of the grouting material areassumed to be the same with that of rock masses The shearmodulus 119866
1is fixed and 119866
2are assumed to be six different
values and the ratio of the initial modulus 119866ini to the long-termmodulus 119866
infinis 12 15 2 3 5 11 21 and 51 accordingly
The results have been shown in Figure 7In Figure 7(a) it can be found that the recovery stresses
measured by the transducer increase gradually and reachstability after a period of time From Figure 7(b) withthe reduction of the long-term modulus 119866
infin that is the
increase of themodulus ratio1198660119866infin the final recovery stress
increasesWhen themodulus ratio is greater than 10 the finalrecovery stress gradually turns to be stable and is above 90of the initial stress From the figures it emerges that if the rockmass has a better rheological property the recovery stressmeasured by the transducer is more close to the initial stressMoreover in practical measurement the final recovery ratiocan be obtained from the initial long-term modulus ratio1198660119866infinwhich can be calculated through creep experiment of
rockmasses according to the curves in Figure 7(b) and the insitu stress can be evaluated from the final recovery ratio andthe practical measured recovery stresses
5 Field Test
The in situ stressmeasurements were carried out in Pingding-shan Number 1 coal mine situated in Henan Provincenorthern China as shown in Figure 8 The Pingdingshancoalfield is about 38 km long EndashW and 20 km wide NndashS and the coal-bearing sediments are mostly of Permianage mainly comprising sandstone sandy mudstone andcarbonaceous shale besides coals which are overlain by theTertiary andQuaternary deposits [27]The general structuralconfiguration of Pingdingshan coal mine is a series of NWfolds in which the major one is Likou syncline It is a broadand gentle fold appearing as a brush structure converging tothe southeast and diverging to the northwest There are someother secondary folds in this area for example Guozhuanganticline Niuzhuang syncline and Zhugemiao anticline inthe south of Likou syncline and Baishigou anticline Ling-wushan syncline and Xiangxia fault in the north of Likousyncline
8 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
0 200 400 600 800 100000
02
04
06
08
10
t (h)
q(t
)1205900
G1G2 = 1 5G1G2 = 4 1G1G2 = 1 2G1G2 = 10 1
G1G2 = 1 1G1G2 = 20 1G1G2 = 2 1G1G2 = 50 1
(a)
0 10 20 30 40 5001
02
03
04
05
06
07
08
09
10
Fina
l rec
over
y str
ess r
atio
GiniGinfin
(b)
Figure 7 Results for different rock properties (a) ratio of the contact pressure (119902(119905)) to in situ stress (b) ratio of stable recovery stress to insitu stress
Table 1 In situ stress magnitudes by overcoring technique using different elastic parameters at the horizontal borehole
Parameter 1205901
1205902
1205903
119864 (GPa) ] Magnitude (MPa) Azimuth (∘) Dip (∘) Magnitude (MPa) Azimuth (∘) Dip (∘) Magnitude (MPa) Azimuth (∘) Dip (∘)5 031 2292 14556 445 1829 33199 8553 1501 23559 0508 031 3445 14315 507 2720 34827 8440 2266 23336 237
The test site of Pingdingshan Number 1 coal mine islocated at a track-dip tunnel with a vertical buried depthof about 877m the lithology of which is dark gray sandymudstone The in situ stress measurements were carried outin both horizontal and vertical boreholes with 30m in depthand 130mm in diameter The sketch of borehole layout isshown in Figure 9 The horizontal borehole was inclined tothe horizontal plane at 10∘ Before the application of theRSR method overcoring technique was carried out in thehorizontal borehole according to the ISTM standard [28]After overcoring the rock core including the hollow inclusiongaugewas calibrated in the calibration instrument In order toobtain themechanical parametersmore accurately rock coresdrilled from the testing borehole were prepared into standardspecimens with 50mm in diameter and 100mm in lengthThe elastic parameters were determined by several specimensfrom uniaxial compression experiment in lab Then theTDPTs were installed at the overcoring position accordingto the testing procedures of RSR method The appropriategrouting materials were selected after a mix design in the labto make the property of grouting materials close to that ofrock masses
6 Results and Discussion
The overcoring test was first finished in horizontal boreholeat Number 1 coal mine and the curves of microstrain values
versus the overcoring depth were given in Figure 10 Basedon the test of elastic parameters of rock mass the elasticmodulus varies in a range (5GPasim8GPa) and the calculatedin situ stresses using different elastic modulus are shown inTable 1 It can be found that themagnitudes of three principalstress components increase as elastic modulus 119864 increaseswhereas their azimuth and dip angles are maintained nearlythe same Ge and Hou [29] have found that when Poissonrsquosratio ] is constant the magnitudes of three principal stresseswill increase (or decrease) with the increase (or decrease) of119864 Therefore the principal stress magnitudes of overcoringtechnique vary in a range
The monitor of the recovery stresses using TDPTsand temperature changes in both horizontal and verticalboreholes at Pingdingshan Number 1 coal mine has beenrecorded for a period of about 500 days It should be notedthat the calibration coefficients of each sensing face weredetermined by calibration test using the actual groutingmaterial and the influence of the environmental temperatureon the transducer is analyzed and compensated For thesake of brief only the results of horizontal borehole inPingdingshan Number 1 coal mine are shown in Figure 11It is clear that the recovery stress measured by all sensingfaces in different directions increases gradually to be stablealthough the rate of stress recovery decreases with timeAccording to the analytical results of the relationship between
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 9
Syncline
N
Anticline
Normal fault
Reverse fault
Coal mine
Likou syncline
Niuzhuang syncline
Baishigou anticline
Guozhuang anticline
Xiangxia fault
Lingwushan syncline
Guodishan
normal fault
Xiaxian
fault
No 9
No 5
No 7No 2
No 8
No 1
No 10
No 12
No 4
No 6No 11
No 3
Beijing
Test area
Pingdingshan city
150
(km)
Figure 8 Schematic map of the Pingdingshan coal mine [27]
Roadway
Horizontal borehole
Vert
ical
bor
ehol
e
10∘
Depth = 30m diameter = 130mm
Dep
th=30
m d
iam
eter=130
mm
Figure 9 Sketch of the borehole layout
the final recovery stress and initial stress and the ratio ofthe initial modulus to the long-term modulus (119866ini119866infin asymp
18) from experimental tests the final recovery ratio can bedetermined (about 045) Then the initial stresses verticalto each sensing face can be calculated and inserted into the
calculation formulation (1) to obtain the stress tensor in localcoordinate system and the principal stress components inglobal coordinate system can be calculated using coordinatetransformation The results of the magnitude azimuth anddip angle of three principal stresses in both horizontal andvertical boreholes in Pingdingshan Number 1 coal mine arelisted in Table 2 All the test results show that the orientationof the maximum principal stress 120590
1and the minimum stress
1205903is approximately in the horizontal plane and that of the
intermediate principal stress is nearly verticalFrom Tables 1 and 2 it can be found that the princi-
pal stress magnitudes of overcoring vary in a range whenselecting different elastic parameters and the results of RSRmethod are within this range The orientations of principalstresses by both overcoring technique and RSR method aredrawn in the stereographic projection shown in Figure 11Thedominant orientations of the maximum principal stress arealmost the same for both the overcoring technique and RSRmethod Pingdingshan region has experienced three obvioustectonic movements in the geologic history the Indosinianmovement during theTriassic period theYanshanmovementduring the Mesozoic period and the Himalayan movementduring the Neozoic period Accordingly the direction of themajor principle stress in this region has shifted from NE-SW
10 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Table 2 In situ stress magnitudes by RSR method at the horizontal and vertical boreholes
Boreholeposition
1205901
1205902
1205903
Magnitude (MPa) Azimuth (∘) Dip (∘) Magnitude (MPa) Azimuth (∘) Dip (∘) Magnitude (MPa) Azimuth (∘) Dip (∘)Horizontal 2821 14887 378 2050 30664 8592 1780 5877 154Vertical 3056 1096 1511 2142 4583 7484 1994 1929 117
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
0
1000
2000
3000
4000
5000
6000
Mic
rostr
ain
valu
e
Overcoring depth (cm)
Channel 1 Channel 7Channel 2 Channel 8Channel 3 Channel 9Channel 4 Channel 10Channel 5 Channel 11Channel 6 Channel 12
minus1000
Figure 10 Stress relief curves during the overcoring of horizontalborehole at Number 1 coal mine
to NW-SE then to approximately EW [30] Figure 12 showsthat the major principle stress directions of testing pointsare mostly NW-SE and agree with those in the second andthird tectonicmovements which reveals that the in situ stressfield at present is caused primarily by the latter two tectonicmovements Therefore it can be said that the result from theRSR method is reliable and the new method for in situ stressmeasurement can be used to measure rock stresses
Through the practical application of the overcoring tech-nique and RSR method for in situ stress measurement inPingdingshan Number 1 coal mine it can be found that theRSR method may be a maneuverable and effective techniquein deep soft rock The accuracy of elastic parameters has agreat influence on the calculated results of stress magnitudesand orientations for overcoring technique However theexact elastic parameters of rockmass seemnot very necessaryfor RSRmethod with respect to conventional methods In theRSRmethod the stress values in different orientations can bemeasured by the pressure transducer directly and can be usedto calculate the stress tensor The accuracy of stress valuesis dependent on the calibration factor of the transducer thatcan be obtained from calibration test Based on the results ofcurrent research [31] the variation of the elastic modulus ofsurrounding material has little influence on the calibrationfactor when the elastic modulus ratio of the transducer to
0 100 200 300 400 500
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
1234
56Temperature
Time (day)Re
cove
ry st
ress
(MPa
)
10
15
20
25
30
35
Tem
pera
ture
(∘C)
Figure 11 Stress recovery process in the horizontal borehole ofPingdingshan Number 1 coal mine
the surrounding material is large enough Therefore the truerock stresses can be inferred by the rough elastic parametersThe measuring errors of RSR method caused by the elasticparameters are less than that of the conventional methods
For the RSR method the main requirement of rock massis good in rheological property Moreover the greater thedepth of testing site the better as the in situ stress at greaterdepth is generally bigger In addition the grouting qualityis very important for the RSR method and the groutingshould be accomplished as soon as possible after drilling thehole The different lateral pressure coefficient may have aninfluence on the stress values measured by the transducerwhich is caused by the difference between the transducer andsurroundingmaterialThrough the model test and numericalsimulation it has been found that the measured stresses werelinear to the loading stresses for the hydrostatic stress loadingand the measured stresses were linear to both the loadingstresses in the same direction and the differential stressesof the other two directions for the nonhydrostatic stressloading [32] The actual stress values on each sensing facecan be deduced by the combination of calibration coefficientsand the measured stress values although the lateral pressurecoefficient 120582 is unknown
The transducers that the RSRmethod uses can be embed-ded not only in the initial stress area to obtain themagnitudesof original stress but also in the excavation damage zone tomonitor the stress state variation It has been found that the
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 11
N
Max mid and min principal stresses of horizontal borehole by RSRMax mid and min principal stresses of vertical borehole by RSR
Max mid and min principal stresses of E = 5GPa by overcoringMax mid and min principal stresses of E = 8GPa by overcoring
Figure 12 Orientations of principal stresses by both overcoring technique and RSR method
stressmeter that is installed in a specimen under loadwill pickup the absolute ambient stress in the host when observed overa period of time concurrently it responded immediately toan increase of stress generated in the host after the time of itsinsertion [33]
The RSR method is used to measure the in situ stressbased on the rheological behavior of rock the longer themonitoring time is therefore the more precise the resultsbecome However further research is needed to see how tocalculate the stress state of one point through monitoring ina short time for engineering applications
7 Conclusions
For the measurement of the stress in deep soft rock a RSRmethod to determine the orientations and magnitudes of 3Din situ stress is proposed as well as its test equipment andprocess and analytical solutions were derived to analyze thecharacteristics of this method Then the RSR method aswell as overcoring technique was conducted in PingdingshanNumber 1 coal mine to measure both the in situ stressorientation and magnitude at a depth of 877m The resultsare summarized as follows
If the rock mass has a better rheological property therecovery stress measured by the transducer is more close tothe initial stress Moreover the grouting quality should beensured that the properties of grouting materials should beclose to that of rock masses in actual operation
These results tested by RSR method and overcoringtechnique are basically in the same order which validatesthat the RSR method is a useful method for deep soft rockmasses The major principal stresses are approximately in
the direction of NW-SE which correlates well with thestress regime of Pingdingshan zone known from the tectonicmovement history
The RSR method can be used to obtain more reliabledata when stress relief method cannot be applied in soft orhighly jointed rock masses under great depth Therefore itcan be said that the RSRmethodmay bewell suitable formorecomplicated geological conditions However more studiesare required to see how to calculate the stress state of onepoint through monitoring in a short time for engineeringapplications
Conflict of Interests
The authors declare that there is no conflict of interestsregarding the publication of this paper
Acknowledgments
This work is supported by the National Basic Research Pro-gram of China (ldquo973rdquo Program) (Grant no 2014CB046904)and theNationalNatural Science Foundation ofChina (Grantnos 41130742 and 11302242)
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Mathematical Problems in Engineering 7
0 200 400 600 800 100000
01
02
03
04
05
06
t (h)
q(t
)1205900
Gc GT = 1 1Gc GT = 1 10Gc GT = 1 100Gc GT = 1 2Gc GT = 1 25
Gc GT = 1 200Gc GT = 1 5Gc GT = 1 50Gc GT = 1 500
(a)
0 100 200 300 400 500
025
030
035
040
045
050
055
060
Ratio
of s
tabl
e rec
over
y str
ess t
o in
situ
stre
ss
GTGc
(b)
Figure 6 Results for different shear moduli of the grout material (a) ratio of the contact pressure (119902(119905)) to in situ stress (b) ratio of stablerecovery stress to in situ stress
120579 = 0∘ with different shear moduli of the grout material are
plotted It can be found that the contact pressure increasesgradually and reaches stability after a period of time andthe ratio of the stable recovery pressure on the transducerto the in situ stress first increases and then decreases withthe increase of transducer-grout modulus ratio as shownin Figure 6 When the transducer-grout modulus ratio isbetween 20 1 and 50 1 the stable recovery pressure on thetransducer reaches the maximum value (about 60 of thein situ stress) From these figures it emerges that suitablegroutmaterial is important for transducers to achieve optimalstresses The type of the grout material should be determinedafter the mix proportion test before field application Thegrout material used in the field test should have goodmechanical properties and are made into samples to measurethemechanical parameters in the lab Moreover it is essentialto carry out calibration tests for the transducer using differentgrouting materials before its field application
46 Influence of the Properties of the Rock Mass To illustratethe influence of the properties of the rock mass on therecovery stresses measured by the transducer an example ispresented herein The properties of the grouting material areassumed to be the same with that of rock masses The shearmodulus 119866
1is fixed and 119866
2are assumed to be six different
values and the ratio of the initial modulus 119866ini to the long-termmodulus 119866
infinis 12 15 2 3 5 11 21 and 51 accordingly
The results have been shown in Figure 7In Figure 7(a) it can be found that the recovery stresses
measured by the transducer increase gradually and reachstability after a period of time From Figure 7(b) withthe reduction of the long-term modulus 119866
infin that is the
increase of themodulus ratio1198660119866infin the final recovery stress
increasesWhen themodulus ratio is greater than 10 the finalrecovery stress gradually turns to be stable and is above 90of the initial stress From the figures it emerges that if the rockmass has a better rheological property the recovery stressmeasured by the transducer is more close to the initial stressMoreover in practical measurement the final recovery ratiocan be obtained from the initial long-term modulus ratio1198660119866infinwhich can be calculated through creep experiment of
rockmasses according to the curves in Figure 7(b) and the insitu stress can be evaluated from the final recovery ratio andthe practical measured recovery stresses
5 Field Test
The in situ stressmeasurements were carried out in Pingding-shan Number 1 coal mine situated in Henan Provincenorthern China as shown in Figure 8 The Pingdingshancoalfield is about 38 km long EndashW and 20 km wide NndashS and the coal-bearing sediments are mostly of Permianage mainly comprising sandstone sandy mudstone andcarbonaceous shale besides coals which are overlain by theTertiary andQuaternary deposits [27]The general structuralconfiguration of Pingdingshan coal mine is a series of NWfolds in which the major one is Likou syncline It is a broadand gentle fold appearing as a brush structure converging tothe southeast and diverging to the northwest There are someother secondary folds in this area for example Guozhuanganticline Niuzhuang syncline and Zhugemiao anticline inthe south of Likou syncline and Baishigou anticline Ling-wushan syncline and Xiangxia fault in the north of Likousyncline
8 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
0 200 400 600 800 100000
02
04
06
08
10
t (h)
q(t
)1205900
G1G2 = 1 5G1G2 = 4 1G1G2 = 1 2G1G2 = 10 1
G1G2 = 1 1G1G2 = 20 1G1G2 = 2 1G1G2 = 50 1
(a)
0 10 20 30 40 5001
02
03
04
05
06
07
08
09
10
Fina
l rec
over
y str
ess r
atio
GiniGinfin
(b)
Figure 7 Results for different rock properties (a) ratio of the contact pressure (119902(119905)) to in situ stress (b) ratio of stable recovery stress to insitu stress
Table 1 In situ stress magnitudes by overcoring technique using different elastic parameters at the horizontal borehole
Parameter 1205901
1205902
1205903
119864 (GPa) ] Magnitude (MPa) Azimuth (∘) Dip (∘) Magnitude (MPa) Azimuth (∘) Dip (∘) Magnitude (MPa) Azimuth (∘) Dip (∘)5 031 2292 14556 445 1829 33199 8553 1501 23559 0508 031 3445 14315 507 2720 34827 8440 2266 23336 237
The test site of Pingdingshan Number 1 coal mine islocated at a track-dip tunnel with a vertical buried depthof about 877m the lithology of which is dark gray sandymudstone The in situ stress measurements were carried outin both horizontal and vertical boreholes with 30m in depthand 130mm in diameter The sketch of borehole layout isshown in Figure 9 The horizontal borehole was inclined tothe horizontal plane at 10∘ Before the application of theRSR method overcoring technique was carried out in thehorizontal borehole according to the ISTM standard [28]After overcoring the rock core including the hollow inclusiongaugewas calibrated in the calibration instrument In order toobtain themechanical parametersmore accurately rock coresdrilled from the testing borehole were prepared into standardspecimens with 50mm in diameter and 100mm in lengthThe elastic parameters were determined by several specimensfrom uniaxial compression experiment in lab Then theTDPTs were installed at the overcoring position accordingto the testing procedures of RSR method The appropriategrouting materials were selected after a mix design in the labto make the property of grouting materials close to that ofrock masses
6 Results and Discussion
The overcoring test was first finished in horizontal boreholeat Number 1 coal mine and the curves of microstrain values
versus the overcoring depth were given in Figure 10 Basedon the test of elastic parameters of rock mass the elasticmodulus varies in a range (5GPasim8GPa) and the calculatedin situ stresses using different elastic modulus are shown inTable 1 It can be found that themagnitudes of three principalstress components increase as elastic modulus 119864 increaseswhereas their azimuth and dip angles are maintained nearlythe same Ge and Hou [29] have found that when Poissonrsquosratio ] is constant the magnitudes of three principal stresseswill increase (or decrease) with the increase (or decrease) of119864 Therefore the principal stress magnitudes of overcoringtechnique vary in a range
The monitor of the recovery stresses using TDPTsand temperature changes in both horizontal and verticalboreholes at Pingdingshan Number 1 coal mine has beenrecorded for a period of about 500 days It should be notedthat the calibration coefficients of each sensing face weredetermined by calibration test using the actual groutingmaterial and the influence of the environmental temperatureon the transducer is analyzed and compensated For thesake of brief only the results of horizontal borehole inPingdingshan Number 1 coal mine are shown in Figure 11It is clear that the recovery stress measured by all sensingfaces in different directions increases gradually to be stablealthough the rate of stress recovery decreases with timeAccording to the analytical results of the relationship between
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 9
Syncline
N
Anticline
Normal fault
Reverse fault
Coal mine
Likou syncline
Niuzhuang syncline
Baishigou anticline
Guozhuang anticline
Xiangxia fault
Lingwushan syncline
Guodishan
normal fault
Xiaxian
fault
No 9
No 5
No 7No 2
No 8
No 1
No 10
No 12
No 4
No 6No 11
No 3
Beijing
Test area
Pingdingshan city
150
(km)
Figure 8 Schematic map of the Pingdingshan coal mine [27]
Roadway
Horizontal borehole
Vert
ical
bor
ehol
e
10∘
Depth = 30m diameter = 130mm
Dep
th=30
m d
iam
eter=130
mm
Figure 9 Sketch of the borehole layout
the final recovery stress and initial stress and the ratio ofthe initial modulus to the long-term modulus (119866ini119866infin asymp
18) from experimental tests the final recovery ratio can bedetermined (about 045) Then the initial stresses verticalto each sensing face can be calculated and inserted into the
calculation formulation (1) to obtain the stress tensor in localcoordinate system and the principal stress components inglobal coordinate system can be calculated using coordinatetransformation The results of the magnitude azimuth anddip angle of three principal stresses in both horizontal andvertical boreholes in Pingdingshan Number 1 coal mine arelisted in Table 2 All the test results show that the orientationof the maximum principal stress 120590
1and the minimum stress
1205903is approximately in the horizontal plane and that of the
intermediate principal stress is nearly verticalFrom Tables 1 and 2 it can be found that the princi-
pal stress magnitudes of overcoring vary in a range whenselecting different elastic parameters and the results of RSRmethod are within this range The orientations of principalstresses by both overcoring technique and RSR method aredrawn in the stereographic projection shown in Figure 11Thedominant orientations of the maximum principal stress arealmost the same for both the overcoring technique and RSRmethod Pingdingshan region has experienced three obvioustectonic movements in the geologic history the Indosinianmovement during theTriassic period theYanshanmovementduring the Mesozoic period and the Himalayan movementduring the Neozoic period Accordingly the direction of themajor principle stress in this region has shifted from NE-SW
10 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Table 2 In situ stress magnitudes by RSR method at the horizontal and vertical boreholes
Boreholeposition
1205901
1205902
1205903
Magnitude (MPa) Azimuth (∘) Dip (∘) Magnitude (MPa) Azimuth (∘) Dip (∘) Magnitude (MPa) Azimuth (∘) Dip (∘)Horizontal 2821 14887 378 2050 30664 8592 1780 5877 154Vertical 3056 1096 1511 2142 4583 7484 1994 1929 117
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
0
1000
2000
3000
4000
5000
6000
Mic
rostr
ain
valu
e
Overcoring depth (cm)
Channel 1 Channel 7Channel 2 Channel 8Channel 3 Channel 9Channel 4 Channel 10Channel 5 Channel 11Channel 6 Channel 12
minus1000
Figure 10 Stress relief curves during the overcoring of horizontalborehole at Number 1 coal mine
to NW-SE then to approximately EW [30] Figure 12 showsthat the major principle stress directions of testing pointsare mostly NW-SE and agree with those in the second andthird tectonicmovements which reveals that the in situ stressfield at present is caused primarily by the latter two tectonicmovements Therefore it can be said that the result from theRSR method is reliable and the new method for in situ stressmeasurement can be used to measure rock stresses
Through the practical application of the overcoring tech-nique and RSR method for in situ stress measurement inPingdingshan Number 1 coal mine it can be found that theRSR method may be a maneuverable and effective techniquein deep soft rock The accuracy of elastic parameters has agreat influence on the calculated results of stress magnitudesand orientations for overcoring technique However theexact elastic parameters of rockmass seemnot very necessaryfor RSRmethod with respect to conventional methods In theRSRmethod the stress values in different orientations can bemeasured by the pressure transducer directly and can be usedto calculate the stress tensor The accuracy of stress valuesis dependent on the calibration factor of the transducer thatcan be obtained from calibration test Based on the results ofcurrent research [31] the variation of the elastic modulus ofsurrounding material has little influence on the calibrationfactor when the elastic modulus ratio of the transducer to
0 100 200 300 400 500
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
1234
56Temperature
Time (day)Re
cove
ry st
ress
(MPa
)
10
15
20
25
30
35
Tem
pera
ture
(∘C)
Figure 11 Stress recovery process in the horizontal borehole ofPingdingshan Number 1 coal mine
the surrounding material is large enough Therefore the truerock stresses can be inferred by the rough elastic parametersThe measuring errors of RSR method caused by the elasticparameters are less than that of the conventional methods
For the RSR method the main requirement of rock massis good in rheological property Moreover the greater thedepth of testing site the better as the in situ stress at greaterdepth is generally bigger In addition the grouting qualityis very important for the RSR method and the groutingshould be accomplished as soon as possible after drilling thehole The different lateral pressure coefficient may have aninfluence on the stress values measured by the transducerwhich is caused by the difference between the transducer andsurroundingmaterialThrough the model test and numericalsimulation it has been found that the measured stresses werelinear to the loading stresses for the hydrostatic stress loadingand the measured stresses were linear to both the loadingstresses in the same direction and the differential stressesof the other two directions for the nonhydrostatic stressloading [32] The actual stress values on each sensing facecan be deduced by the combination of calibration coefficientsand the measured stress values although the lateral pressurecoefficient 120582 is unknown
The transducers that the RSRmethod uses can be embed-ded not only in the initial stress area to obtain themagnitudesof original stress but also in the excavation damage zone tomonitor the stress state variation It has been found that the
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 11
N
Max mid and min principal stresses of horizontal borehole by RSRMax mid and min principal stresses of vertical borehole by RSR
Max mid and min principal stresses of E = 5GPa by overcoringMax mid and min principal stresses of E = 8GPa by overcoring
Figure 12 Orientations of principal stresses by both overcoring technique and RSR method
stressmeter that is installed in a specimen under loadwill pickup the absolute ambient stress in the host when observed overa period of time concurrently it responded immediately toan increase of stress generated in the host after the time of itsinsertion [33]
The RSR method is used to measure the in situ stressbased on the rheological behavior of rock the longer themonitoring time is therefore the more precise the resultsbecome However further research is needed to see how tocalculate the stress state of one point through monitoring ina short time for engineering applications
7 Conclusions
For the measurement of the stress in deep soft rock a RSRmethod to determine the orientations and magnitudes of 3Din situ stress is proposed as well as its test equipment andprocess and analytical solutions were derived to analyze thecharacteristics of this method Then the RSR method aswell as overcoring technique was conducted in PingdingshanNumber 1 coal mine to measure both the in situ stressorientation and magnitude at a depth of 877m The resultsare summarized as follows
If the rock mass has a better rheological property therecovery stress measured by the transducer is more close tothe initial stress Moreover the grouting quality should beensured that the properties of grouting materials should beclose to that of rock masses in actual operation
These results tested by RSR method and overcoringtechnique are basically in the same order which validatesthat the RSR method is a useful method for deep soft rockmasses The major principal stresses are approximately in
the direction of NW-SE which correlates well with thestress regime of Pingdingshan zone known from the tectonicmovement history
The RSR method can be used to obtain more reliabledata when stress relief method cannot be applied in soft orhighly jointed rock masses under great depth Therefore itcan be said that the RSRmethodmay bewell suitable formorecomplicated geological conditions However more studiesare required to see how to calculate the stress state of onepoint through monitoring in a short time for engineeringapplications
Conflict of Interests
The authors declare that there is no conflict of interestsregarding the publication of this paper
Acknowledgments
This work is supported by the National Basic Research Pro-gram of China (ldquo973rdquo Program) (Grant no 2014CB046904)and theNationalNatural Science Foundation ofChina (Grantnos 41130742 and 11302242)
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[2] B Amadei and O Stephansson Rock Stress and Its Measure-ment Springer Dordrecht The Netherlands 1997
[3] C Ljunggren Y Chang T Janson and R Christiansson ldquoAnoverview of rock stress measurement methodsrdquo International
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[4] R Corthesy M H Leite D E Gill and B Gaudin ldquoStressmeasurements in soft rocksrdquo Engineering Geology vol 69 no3-4 pp 381ndash397 2003
[5] R Ulusay The ISRM Suggested Methods for Rock Characteriza-tion Testing and Monitoring 2007ndash2014 Springer 2015
[6] C Liu ldquoDistribution laws of in-situ stress in deep undergroundcoal minesrdquo Procedia Engineering vol 26 pp 909ndash917 2011
[7] J Rutqvist C-F Tsang andO Stephansson ldquoUncertainty in themaximum principal stress estimated from hydraulic fracturingmeasurements due to the presence of the induced fracturerdquoInternational Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciencesvol 37 no 1-2 pp 107ndash120 2000
[8] C Ljunggren and G Raillard ldquoRock stress measurements bymeans of hydraulic tests on pre-existing fractures at Gideatest site Swedenrdquo International Journal of Rock Mechanics andMining Sciences amp Geomechanics Abstracts vol 24 no 6 pp339ndash345 1987
[9] B C Haimson and F H Cornet ldquoISRM suggested methodsfor rock stress estimation Part 3 Hydraulic fracturing (HF)andor hydraulic testing of pre-existing fractures (HTPF)rdquoInternational Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciencesvol 40 no 7-8 pp 1011ndash1020 2003
[10] M H Talebi S Heidari M Moosavi and M Rahimi ldquoIn situstress measurements of two hydropower projects in Iran byhydraulic fracturing methodrdquo Arabian Journal of Geosciencesvol 8 no 9 pp 7073ndash7085 2015
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English Edition vol 83 no 4 pp 746ndash753 2009[12] B Amadei Rock Anisotropy and the Theory of Stress Measure-
ments Springer 1983[13] P Thompson R Corthesy and M Leite ldquoRock stress measure-
ments at great depth using the modified doorstopper gaugerdquo inProceedings of the International Symposium Rock Stress JapanK Sugawara and Y Obara Eds pp 59ndash64 AA Balkema 1997
[14] G Della Vecchia A Pandolfi G Musso and G Capasso ldquoAnanalytical expression for the determination of in situ stress statefrom borehole data accounting for breakout sizerdquo InternationalJournal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences vol 66 pp 64ndash68 2014
[15] M Seto D K Nag and V S Vutukuri ldquoIn-situ rock stress mea-surement from rock cores using the acoustic emission methodand deformation rate analysisrdquo Geotechnical and GeologicalEngineering vol 17 no 3-4 pp 241ndash266 1999
[16] L Gao W Lin D Sun and H Wang ldquoExperimental anelas-tic strain recovery compliance of three typical rocksrdquo RockMechanics and Rock Engineering vol 47 no 6 pp 1987ndash19952014
[17] K Matsuki and K Takeuchi ldquoThree-dimensional in situ stressdetermination by anelastic strain recovery of a rock corerdquoInternational Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences ampGeomechanics Abstracts vol 30 no 7 pp 1019ndash1022 1993
[18] D Sun W Lin J Cui et al ldquoThree-dimensional in situ stressdetermination by anelastic strain recovery and its applicationat the Wenchuan Earthquake Fault Scientific Drilling Hole-1(WFSD-1)rdquo Science China Earth Sciences vol 57 no 6 pp 1212ndash1220 2014
[19] L Teufel ldquoDetermination of in situ stress from partial anelasticstrain recovery measurements of oriented cores from deepboreholesrdquo in Proceedings of the 34th US Rock MechanicsSymposium on Short Course Modern In Situ Stress MeasurementMethods pp 27ndash30 June 1993
[20] Z Guan Y Jiang and Y Tanabashi ldquoRheological parameterestimation for the prediction of long-term deformations inconventional tunnellingrdquo Tunnelling and Underground SpaceTechnology vol 24 no 3 pp 250ndash259 2009
[21] S Wassmann and B Stockhert ldquoRheology of the plateinterfacemdashdissolution precipitation creep in high pressuremetamorphic rocksrdquo Tectonophysics vol 608 pp 1ndash29 2013
[22] D F Malan ldquoTime-dependent behaviour of deep level tabularexcavations in hard rockrdquo Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineer-ing vol 32 no 2 pp 123ndash155 1999
[23] DM StefanescuHandbook of Force Transducers Principles andComponents Springer Science amp Business Media 2011
[24] A Fahimifar F M Tehrani A Hedayat and A VakilzadehldquoAnalytical solution for the excavation of circular tunnels ina visco-elastic Burgerrsquos material under hydrostatic stress fieldrdquoTunnelling andUnderground Space Technology vol 25 no 4 pp297ndash304 2010
[25] H N Wang Y Li Q Ni S Utili M J Jiang and F LiuldquoAnalytical solutions for the construction of deeply buriedcircular tunnels with two liners in rheological rockrdquo RockMechanics and Rock Engineering vol 46 no 6 pp 1481ndash14982013
[26] R E Goodman Introduction to Rock Mechanics Wiley NewYork NY USA 1989
[27] H Li ldquoMajor and minor structural features of a bedding shearzone along a coal seam and related gas outburst Pingdingshancoalfield Northern Chinardquo International Journal of Coal Geol-ogy vol 47 no 2 pp 101ndash113 2001
[28] J Sjoberg R Christiansson and J A Hudson ldquoISRM sug-gested methods for rock stress estimationmdashpart 2 overcoringmethodsrdquo International Journal of Rock Mechanics and MiningSciences vol 40 no 7-8 pp 999ndash1010 2003
[29] X R Ge and M X Hou ldquoPrinciple of in-situ 3D rock stressmeasurement with borehole wall stress relief method and itspreliminary applications to determination of in-situ rock stressorientation and magnitude in Jinping hydropower stationrdquoScience China Technological Sciences vol 55 no 4 pp 939ndash9492012
[30] Y Wang H Jing K Chen and L Wei ldquoStudy of distribu-tion regularities and regional division of in-situ stresses forPingdingshan Mining areardquo Chinese Journal of Rock Mechanicsand Engineering vol 33 no 1 pp 2620ndash2627 2014
[31] R Collins K Lee G Lilly and R Westmann ldquoMechanics ofpressure cellsrdquo Experimental Mechanics vol 12 no 11 pp 514ndash519 1972
[32] Y ZhuQ Liu J Jiang YHuang andY Pan ldquoMeasuring perfor-mance of three-dimensional pressure sensor in cement mortarblockrdquo Chinese Journal of Rock Mechanics and Engineering vol34 pp 1877ndash1885 2015
[33] D Skilton ldquoBehaviour of rigid inclusion stressmeters in vis-coelastic rockrdquo International Journal of Rock Mechanics andMining SciencesampGeomechanics Abstracts vol 8 no 4 pp 283ndash289 1971
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8 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
0 200 400 600 800 100000
02
04
06
08
10
t (h)
q(t
)1205900
G1G2 = 1 5G1G2 = 4 1G1G2 = 1 2G1G2 = 10 1
G1G2 = 1 1G1G2 = 20 1G1G2 = 2 1G1G2 = 50 1
(a)
0 10 20 30 40 5001
02
03
04
05
06
07
08
09
10
Fina
l rec
over
y str
ess r
atio
GiniGinfin
(b)
Figure 7 Results for different rock properties (a) ratio of the contact pressure (119902(119905)) to in situ stress (b) ratio of stable recovery stress to insitu stress
Table 1 In situ stress magnitudes by overcoring technique using different elastic parameters at the horizontal borehole
Parameter 1205901
1205902
1205903
119864 (GPa) ] Magnitude (MPa) Azimuth (∘) Dip (∘) Magnitude (MPa) Azimuth (∘) Dip (∘) Magnitude (MPa) Azimuth (∘) Dip (∘)5 031 2292 14556 445 1829 33199 8553 1501 23559 0508 031 3445 14315 507 2720 34827 8440 2266 23336 237
The test site of Pingdingshan Number 1 coal mine islocated at a track-dip tunnel with a vertical buried depthof about 877m the lithology of which is dark gray sandymudstone The in situ stress measurements were carried outin both horizontal and vertical boreholes with 30m in depthand 130mm in diameter The sketch of borehole layout isshown in Figure 9 The horizontal borehole was inclined tothe horizontal plane at 10∘ Before the application of theRSR method overcoring technique was carried out in thehorizontal borehole according to the ISTM standard [28]After overcoring the rock core including the hollow inclusiongaugewas calibrated in the calibration instrument In order toobtain themechanical parametersmore accurately rock coresdrilled from the testing borehole were prepared into standardspecimens with 50mm in diameter and 100mm in lengthThe elastic parameters were determined by several specimensfrom uniaxial compression experiment in lab Then theTDPTs were installed at the overcoring position accordingto the testing procedures of RSR method The appropriategrouting materials were selected after a mix design in the labto make the property of grouting materials close to that ofrock masses
6 Results and Discussion
The overcoring test was first finished in horizontal boreholeat Number 1 coal mine and the curves of microstrain values
versus the overcoring depth were given in Figure 10 Basedon the test of elastic parameters of rock mass the elasticmodulus varies in a range (5GPasim8GPa) and the calculatedin situ stresses using different elastic modulus are shown inTable 1 It can be found that themagnitudes of three principalstress components increase as elastic modulus 119864 increaseswhereas their azimuth and dip angles are maintained nearlythe same Ge and Hou [29] have found that when Poissonrsquosratio ] is constant the magnitudes of three principal stresseswill increase (or decrease) with the increase (or decrease) of119864 Therefore the principal stress magnitudes of overcoringtechnique vary in a range
The monitor of the recovery stresses using TDPTsand temperature changes in both horizontal and verticalboreholes at Pingdingshan Number 1 coal mine has beenrecorded for a period of about 500 days It should be notedthat the calibration coefficients of each sensing face weredetermined by calibration test using the actual groutingmaterial and the influence of the environmental temperatureon the transducer is analyzed and compensated For thesake of brief only the results of horizontal borehole inPingdingshan Number 1 coal mine are shown in Figure 11It is clear that the recovery stress measured by all sensingfaces in different directions increases gradually to be stablealthough the rate of stress recovery decreases with timeAccording to the analytical results of the relationship between
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 9
Syncline
N
Anticline
Normal fault
Reverse fault
Coal mine
Likou syncline
Niuzhuang syncline
Baishigou anticline
Guozhuang anticline
Xiangxia fault
Lingwushan syncline
Guodishan
normal fault
Xiaxian
fault
No 9
No 5
No 7No 2
No 8
No 1
No 10
No 12
No 4
No 6No 11
No 3
Beijing
Test area
Pingdingshan city
150
(km)
Figure 8 Schematic map of the Pingdingshan coal mine [27]
Roadway
Horizontal borehole
Vert
ical
bor
ehol
e
10∘
Depth = 30m diameter = 130mm
Dep
th=30
m d
iam
eter=130
mm
Figure 9 Sketch of the borehole layout
the final recovery stress and initial stress and the ratio ofthe initial modulus to the long-term modulus (119866ini119866infin asymp
18) from experimental tests the final recovery ratio can bedetermined (about 045) Then the initial stresses verticalto each sensing face can be calculated and inserted into the
calculation formulation (1) to obtain the stress tensor in localcoordinate system and the principal stress components inglobal coordinate system can be calculated using coordinatetransformation The results of the magnitude azimuth anddip angle of three principal stresses in both horizontal andvertical boreholes in Pingdingshan Number 1 coal mine arelisted in Table 2 All the test results show that the orientationof the maximum principal stress 120590
1and the minimum stress
1205903is approximately in the horizontal plane and that of the
intermediate principal stress is nearly verticalFrom Tables 1 and 2 it can be found that the princi-
pal stress magnitudes of overcoring vary in a range whenselecting different elastic parameters and the results of RSRmethod are within this range The orientations of principalstresses by both overcoring technique and RSR method aredrawn in the stereographic projection shown in Figure 11Thedominant orientations of the maximum principal stress arealmost the same for both the overcoring technique and RSRmethod Pingdingshan region has experienced three obvioustectonic movements in the geologic history the Indosinianmovement during theTriassic period theYanshanmovementduring the Mesozoic period and the Himalayan movementduring the Neozoic period Accordingly the direction of themajor principle stress in this region has shifted from NE-SW
10 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Table 2 In situ stress magnitudes by RSR method at the horizontal and vertical boreholes
Boreholeposition
1205901
1205902
1205903
Magnitude (MPa) Azimuth (∘) Dip (∘) Magnitude (MPa) Azimuth (∘) Dip (∘) Magnitude (MPa) Azimuth (∘) Dip (∘)Horizontal 2821 14887 378 2050 30664 8592 1780 5877 154Vertical 3056 1096 1511 2142 4583 7484 1994 1929 117
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
0
1000
2000
3000
4000
5000
6000
Mic
rostr
ain
valu
e
Overcoring depth (cm)
Channel 1 Channel 7Channel 2 Channel 8Channel 3 Channel 9Channel 4 Channel 10Channel 5 Channel 11Channel 6 Channel 12
minus1000
Figure 10 Stress relief curves during the overcoring of horizontalborehole at Number 1 coal mine
to NW-SE then to approximately EW [30] Figure 12 showsthat the major principle stress directions of testing pointsare mostly NW-SE and agree with those in the second andthird tectonicmovements which reveals that the in situ stressfield at present is caused primarily by the latter two tectonicmovements Therefore it can be said that the result from theRSR method is reliable and the new method for in situ stressmeasurement can be used to measure rock stresses
Through the practical application of the overcoring tech-nique and RSR method for in situ stress measurement inPingdingshan Number 1 coal mine it can be found that theRSR method may be a maneuverable and effective techniquein deep soft rock The accuracy of elastic parameters has agreat influence on the calculated results of stress magnitudesand orientations for overcoring technique However theexact elastic parameters of rockmass seemnot very necessaryfor RSRmethod with respect to conventional methods In theRSRmethod the stress values in different orientations can bemeasured by the pressure transducer directly and can be usedto calculate the stress tensor The accuracy of stress valuesis dependent on the calibration factor of the transducer thatcan be obtained from calibration test Based on the results ofcurrent research [31] the variation of the elastic modulus ofsurrounding material has little influence on the calibrationfactor when the elastic modulus ratio of the transducer to
0 100 200 300 400 500
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
1234
56Temperature
Time (day)Re
cove
ry st
ress
(MPa
)
10
15
20
25
30
35
Tem
pera
ture
(∘C)
Figure 11 Stress recovery process in the horizontal borehole ofPingdingshan Number 1 coal mine
the surrounding material is large enough Therefore the truerock stresses can be inferred by the rough elastic parametersThe measuring errors of RSR method caused by the elasticparameters are less than that of the conventional methods
For the RSR method the main requirement of rock massis good in rheological property Moreover the greater thedepth of testing site the better as the in situ stress at greaterdepth is generally bigger In addition the grouting qualityis very important for the RSR method and the groutingshould be accomplished as soon as possible after drilling thehole The different lateral pressure coefficient may have aninfluence on the stress values measured by the transducerwhich is caused by the difference between the transducer andsurroundingmaterialThrough the model test and numericalsimulation it has been found that the measured stresses werelinear to the loading stresses for the hydrostatic stress loadingand the measured stresses were linear to both the loadingstresses in the same direction and the differential stressesof the other two directions for the nonhydrostatic stressloading [32] The actual stress values on each sensing facecan be deduced by the combination of calibration coefficientsand the measured stress values although the lateral pressurecoefficient 120582 is unknown
The transducers that the RSRmethod uses can be embed-ded not only in the initial stress area to obtain themagnitudesof original stress but also in the excavation damage zone tomonitor the stress state variation It has been found that the
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 11
N
Max mid and min principal stresses of horizontal borehole by RSRMax mid and min principal stresses of vertical borehole by RSR
Max mid and min principal stresses of E = 5GPa by overcoringMax mid and min principal stresses of E = 8GPa by overcoring
Figure 12 Orientations of principal stresses by both overcoring technique and RSR method
stressmeter that is installed in a specimen under loadwill pickup the absolute ambient stress in the host when observed overa period of time concurrently it responded immediately toan increase of stress generated in the host after the time of itsinsertion [33]
The RSR method is used to measure the in situ stressbased on the rheological behavior of rock the longer themonitoring time is therefore the more precise the resultsbecome However further research is needed to see how tocalculate the stress state of one point through monitoring ina short time for engineering applications
7 Conclusions
For the measurement of the stress in deep soft rock a RSRmethod to determine the orientations and magnitudes of 3Din situ stress is proposed as well as its test equipment andprocess and analytical solutions were derived to analyze thecharacteristics of this method Then the RSR method aswell as overcoring technique was conducted in PingdingshanNumber 1 coal mine to measure both the in situ stressorientation and magnitude at a depth of 877m The resultsare summarized as follows
If the rock mass has a better rheological property therecovery stress measured by the transducer is more close tothe initial stress Moreover the grouting quality should beensured that the properties of grouting materials should beclose to that of rock masses in actual operation
These results tested by RSR method and overcoringtechnique are basically in the same order which validatesthat the RSR method is a useful method for deep soft rockmasses The major principal stresses are approximately in
the direction of NW-SE which correlates well with thestress regime of Pingdingshan zone known from the tectonicmovement history
The RSR method can be used to obtain more reliabledata when stress relief method cannot be applied in soft orhighly jointed rock masses under great depth Therefore itcan be said that the RSRmethodmay bewell suitable formorecomplicated geological conditions However more studiesare required to see how to calculate the stress state of onepoint through monitoring in a short time for engineeringapplications
Conflict of Interests
The authors declare that there is no conflict of interestsregarding the publication of this paper
Acknowledgments
This work is supported by the National Basic Research Pro-gram of China (ldquo973rdquo Program) (Grant no 2014CB046904)and theNationalNatural Science Foundation ofChina (Grantnos 41130742 and 11302242)
References
[1] A Zang and O Stephansson Stress Field of the Earthrsquos CrustSpringer Science amp Business Media 2009
[2] B Amadei and O Stephansson Rock Stress and Its Measure-ment Springer Dordrecht The Netherlands 1997
[3] C Ljunggren Y Chang T Janson and R Christiansson ldquoAnoverview of rock stress measurement methodsrdquo International
12 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences vol 40 no 7-8pp 975ndash989 2003
[4] R Corthesy M H Leite D E Gill and B Gaudin ldquoStressmeasurements in soft rocksrdquo Engineering Geology vol 69 no3-4 pp 381ndash397 2003
[5] R Ulusay The ISRM Suggested Methods for Rock Characteriza-tion Testing and Monitoring 2007ndash2014 Springer 2015
[6] C Liu ldquoDistribution laws of in-situ stress in deep undergroundcoal minesrdquo Procedia Engineering vol 26 pp 909ndash917 2011
[7] J Rutqvist C-F Tsang andO Stephansson ldquoUncertainty in themaximum principal stress estimated from hydraulic fracturingmeasurements due to the presence of the induced fracturerdquoInternational Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciencesvol 37 no 1-2 pp 107ndash120 2000
[8] C Ljunggren and G Raillard ldquoRock stress measurements bymeans of hydraulic tests on pre-existing fractures at Gideatest site Swedenrdquo International Journal of Rock Mechanics andMining Sciences amp Geomechanics Abstracts vol 24 no 6 pp339ndash345 1987
[9] B C Haimson and F H Cornet ldquoISRM suggested methodsfor rock stress estimation Part 3 Hydraulic fracturing (HF)andor hydraulic testing of pre-existing fractures (HTPF)rdquoInternational Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciencesvol 40 no 7-8 pp 1011ndash1020 2003
[10] M H Talebi S Heidari M Moosavi and M Rahimi ldquoIn situstress measurements of two hydropower projects in Iran byhydraulic fracturing methodrdquo Arabian Journal of Geosciencesvol 8 no 9 pp 7073ndash7085 2015
[11] M L Wu Y Q Zhang C T Liao et al ldquoPreliminary results ofin-situ stress measurements along the Longmenshan fault zoneafter theWenchuanM
11990480 earthquakerdquoActa Geologica Sinicamdash
English Edition vol 83 no 4 pp 746ndash753 2009[12] B Amadei Rock Anisotropy and the Theory of Stress Measure-
ments Springer 1983[13] P Thompson R Corthesy and M Leite ldquoRock stress measure-
ments at great depth using the modified doorstopper gaugerdquo inProceedings of the International Symposium Rock Stress JapanK Sugawara and Y Obara Eds pp 59ndash64 AA Balkema 1997
[14] G Della Vecchia A Pandolfi G Musso and G Capasso ldquoAnanalytical expression for the determination of in situ stress statefrom borehole data accounting for breakout sizerdquo InternationalJournal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences vol 66 pp 64ndash68 2014
[15] M Seto D K Nag and V S Vutukuri ldquoIn-situ rock stress mea-surement from rock cores using the acoustic emission methodand deformation rate analysisrdquo Geotechnical and GeologicalEngineering vol 17 no 3-4 pp 241ndash266 1999
[16] L Gao W Lin D Sun and H Wang ldquoExperimental anelas-tic strain recovery compliance of three typical rocksrdquo RockMechanics and Rock Engineering vol 47 no 6 pp 1987ndash19952014
[17] K Matsuki and K Takeuchi ldquoThree-dimensional in situ stressdetermination by anelastic strain recovery of a rock corerdquoInternational Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences ampGeomechanics Abstracts vol 30 no 7 pp 1019ndash1022 1993
[18] D Sun W Lin J Cui et al ldquoThree-dimensional in situ stressdetermination by anelastic strain recovery and its applicationat the Wenchuan Earthquake Fault Scientific Drilling Hole-1(WFSD-1)rdquo Science China Earth Sciences vol 57 no 6 pp 1212ndash1220 2014
[19] L Teufel ldquoDetermination of in situ stress from partial anelasticstrain recovery measurements of oriented cores from deepboreholesrdquo in Proceedings of the 34th US Rock MechanicsSymposium on Short Course Modern In Situ Stress MeasurementMethods pp 27ndash30 June 1993
[20] Z Guan Y Jiang and Y Tanabashi ldquoRheological parameterestimation for the prediction of long-term deformations inconventional tunnellingrdquo Tunnelling and Underground SpaceTechnology vol 24 no 3 pp 250ndash259 2009
[21] S Wassmann and B Stockhert ldquoRheology of the plateinterfacemdashdissolution precipitation creep in high pressuremetamorphic rocksrdquo Tectonophysics vol 608 pp 1ndash29 2013
[22] D F Malan ldquoTime-dependent behaviour of deep level tabularexcavations in hard rockrdquo Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineer-ing vol 32 no 2 pp 123ndash155 1999
[23] DM StefanescuHandbook of Force Transducers Principles andComponents Springer Science amp Business Media 2011
[24] A Fahimifar F M Tehrani A Hedayat and A VakilzadehldquoAnalytical solution for the excavation of circular tunnels ina visco-elastic Burgerrsquos material under hydrostatic stress fieldrdquoTunnelling andUnderground Space Technology vol 25 no 4 pp297ndash304 2010
[25] H N Wang Y Li Q Ni S Utili M J Jiang and F LiuldquoAnalytical solutions for the construction of deeply buriedcircular tunnels with two liners in rheological rockrdquo RockMechanics and Rock Engineering vol 46 no 6 pp 1481ndash14982013
[26] R E Goodman Introduction to Rock Mechanics Wiley NewYork NY USA 1989
[27] H Li ldquoMajor and minor structural features of a bedding shearzone along a coal seam and related gas outburst Pingdingshancoalfield Northern Chinardquo International Journal of Coal Geol-ogy vol 47 no 2 pp 101ndash113 2001
[28] J Sjoberg R Christiansson and J A Hudson ldquoISRM sug-gested methods for rock stress estimationmdashpart 2 overcoringmethodsrdquo International Journal of Rock Mechanics and MiningSciences vol 40 no 7-8 pp 999ndash1010 2003
[29] X R Ge and M X Hou ldquoPrinciple of in-situ 3D rock stressmeasurement with borehole wall stress relief method and itspreliminary applications to determination of in-situ rock stressorientation and magnitude in Jinping hydropower stationrdquoScience China Technological Sciences vol 55 no 4 pp 939ndash9492012
[30] Y Wang H Jing K Chen and L Wei ldquoStudy of distribu-tion regularities and regional division of in-situ stresses forPingdingshan Mining areardquo Chinese Journal of Rock Mechanicsand Engineering vol 33 no 1 pp 2620ndash2627 2014
[31] R Collins K Lee G Lilly and R Westmann ldquoMechanics ofpressure cellsrdquo Experimental Mechanics vol 12 no 11 pp 514ndash519 1972
[32] Y ZhuQ Liu J Jiang YHuang andY Pan ldquoMeasuring perfor-mance of three-dimensional pressure sensor in cement mortarblockrdquo Chinese Journal of Rock Mechanics and Engineering vol34 pp 1877ndash1885 2015
[33] D Skilton ldquoBehaviour of rigid inclusion stressmeters in vis-coelastic rockrdquo International Journal of Rock Mechanics andMining SciencesampGeomechanics Abstracts vol 8 no 4 pp 283ndash289 1971
Submit your manuscripts athttpwwwhindawicom
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
MathematicsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom
Differential EquationsInternational Journal of
Volume 2014
Applied MathematicsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Probability and StatisticsHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Mathematical PhysicsAdvances in
Complex AnalysisJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
OptimizationJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
CombinatoricsHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
International Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Operations ResearchAdvances in
Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Function Spaces
Abstract and Applied AnalysisHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
The Scientific World JournalHindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Algebra
Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Decision SciencesAdvances in
Discrete MathematicsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom
Volume 2014 Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Stochastic AnalysisInternational Journal of
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 9
Syncline
N
Anticline
Normal fault
Reverse fault
Coal mine
Likou syncline
Niuzhuang syncline
Baishigou anticline
Guozhuang anticline
Xiangxia fault
Lingwushan syncline
Guodishan
normal fault
Xiaxian
fault
No 9
No 5
No 7No 2
No 8
No 1
No 10
No 12
No 4
No 6No 11
No 3
Beijing
Test area
Pingdingshan city
150
(km)
Figure 8 Schematic map of the Pingdingshan coal mine [27]
Roadway
Horizontal borehole
Vert
ical
bor
ehol
e
10∘
Depth = 30m diameter = 130mm
Dep
th=30
m d
iam
eter=130
mm
Figure 9 Sketch of the borehole layout
the final recovery stress and initial stress and the ratio ofthe initial modulus to the long-term modulus (119866ini119866infin asymp
18) from experimental tests the final recovery ratio can bedetermined (about 045) Then the initial stresses verticalto each sensing face can be calculated and inserted into the
calculation formulation (1) to obtain the stress tensor in localcoordinate system and the principal stress components inglobal coordinate system can be calculated using coordinatetransformation The results of the magnitude azimuth anddip angle of three principal stresses in both horizontal andvertical boreholes in Pingdingshan Number 1 coal mine arelisted in Table 2 All the test results show that the orientationof the maximum principal stress 120590
1and the minimum stress
1205903is approximately in the horizontal plane and that of the
intermediate principal stress is nearly verticalFrom Tables 1 and 2 it can be found that the princi-
pal stress magnitudes of overcoring vary in a range whenselecting different elastic parameters and the results of RSRmethod are within this range The orientations of principalstresses by both overcoring technique and RSR method aredrawn in the stereographic projection shown in Figure 11Thedominant orientations of the maximum principal stress arealmost the same for both the overcoring technique and RSRmethod Pingdingshan region has experienced three obvioustectonic movements in the geologic history the Indosinianmovement during theTriassic period theYanshanmovementduring the Mesozoic period and the Himalayan movementduring the Neozoic period Accordingly the direction of themajor principle stress in this region has shifted from NE-SW
10 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Table 2 In situ stress magnitudes by RSR method at the horizontal and vertical boreholes
Boreholeposition
1205901
1205902
1205903
Magnitude (MPa) Azimuth (∘) Dip (∘) Magnitude (MPa) Azimuth (∘) Dip (∘) Magnitude (MPa) Azimuth (∘) Dip (∘)Horizontal 2821 14887 378 2050 30664 8592 1780 5877 154Vertical 3056 1096 1511 2142 4583 7484 1994 1929 117
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
0
1000
2000
3000
4000
5000
6000
Mic
rostr
ain
valu
e
Overcoring depth (cm)
Channel 1 Channel 7Channel 2 Channel 8Channel 3 Channel 9Channel 4 Channel 10Channel 5 Channel 11Channel 6 Channel 12
minus1000
Figure 10 Stress relief curves during the overcoring of horizontalborehole at Number 1 coal mine
to NW-SE then to approximately EW [30] Figure 12 showsthat the major principle stress directions of testing pointsare mostly NW-SE and agree with those in the second andthird tectonicmovements which reveals that the in situ stressfield at present is caused primarily by the latter two tectonicmovements Therefore it can be said that the result from theRSR method is reliable and the new method for in situ stressmeasurement can be used to measure rock stresses
Through the practical application of the overcoring tech-nique and RSR method for in situ stress measurement inPingdingshan Number 1 coal mine it can be found that theRSR method may be a maneuverable and effective techniquein deep soft rock The accuracy of elastic parameters has agreat influence on the calculated results of stress magnitudesand orientations for overcoring technique However theexact elastic parameters of rockmass seemnot very necessaryfor RSRmethod with respect to conventional methods In theRSRmethod the stress values in different orientations can bemeasured by the pressure transducer directly and can be usedto calculate the stress tensor The accuracy of stress valuesis dependent on the calibration factor of the transducer thatcan be obtained from calibration test Based on the results ofcurrent research [31] the variation of the elastic modulus ofsurrounding material has little influence on the calibrationfactor when the elastic modulus ratio of the transducer to
0 100 200 300 400 500
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
1234
56Temperature
Time (day)Re
cove
ry st
ress
(MPa
)
10
15
20
25
30
35
Tem
pera
ture
(∘C)
Figure 11 Stress recovery process in the horizontal borehole ofPingdingshan Number 1 coal mine
the surrounding material is large enough Therefore the truerock stresses can be inferred by the rough elastic parametersThe measuring errors of RSR method caused by the elasticparameters are less than that of the conventional methods
For the RSR method the main requirement of rock massis good in rheological property Moreover the greater thedepth of testing site the better as the in situ stress at greaterdepth is generally bigger In addition the grouting qualityis very important for the RSR method and the groutingshould be accomplished as soon as possible after drilling thehole The different lateral pressure coefficient may have aninfluence on the stress values measured by the transducerwhich is caused by the difference between the transducer andsurroundingmaterialThrough the model test and numericalsimulation it has been found that the measured stresses werelinear to the loading stresses for the hydrostatic stress loadingand the measured stresses were linear to both the loadingstresses in the same direction and the differential stressesof the other two directions for the nonhydrostatic stressloading [32] The actual stress values on each sensing facecan be deduced by the combination of calibration coefficientsand the measured stress values although the lateral pressurecoefficient 120582 is unknown
The transducers that the RSRmethod uses can be embed-ded not only in the initial stress area to obtain themagnitudesof original stress but also in the excavation damage zone tomonitor the stress state variation It has been found that the
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 11
N
Max mid and min principal stresses of horizontal borehole by RSRMax mid and min principal stresses of vertical borehole by RSR
Max mid and min principal stresses of E = 5GPa by overcoringMax mid and min principal stresses of E = 8GPa by overcoring
Figure 12 Orientations of principal stresses by both overcoring technique and RSR method
stressmeter that is installed in a specimen under loadwill pickup the absolute ambient stress in the host when observed overa period of time concurrently it responded immediately toan increase of stress generated in the host after the time of itsinsertion [33]
The RSR method is used to measure the in situ stressbased on the rheological behavior of rock the longer themonitoring time is therefore the more precise the resultsbecome However further research is needed to see how tocalculate the stress state of one point through monitoring ina short time for engineering applications
7 Conclusions
For the measurement of the stress in deep soft rock a RSRmethod to determine the orientations and magnitudes of 3Din situ stress is proposed as well as its test equipment andprocess and analytical solutions were derived to analyze thecharacteristics of this method Then the RSR method aswell as overcoring technique was conducted in PingdingshanNumber 1 coal mine to measure both the in situ stressorientation and magnitude at a depth of 877m The resultsare summarized as follows
If the rock mass has a better rheological property therecovery stress measured by the transducer is more close tothe initial stress Moreover the grouting quality should beensured that the properties of grouting materials should beclose to that of rock masses in actual operation
These results tested by RSR method and overcoringtechnique are basically in the same order which validatesthat the RSR method is a useful method for deep soft rockmasses The major principal stresses are approximately in
the direction of NW-SE which correlates well with thestress regime of Pingdingshan zone known from the tectonicmovement history
The RSR method can be used to obtain more reliabledata when stress relief method cannot be applied in soft orhighly jointed rock masses under great depth Therefore itcan be said that the RSRmethodmay bewell suitable formorecomplicated geological conditions However more studiesare required to see how to calculate the stress state of onepoint through monitoring in a short time for engineeringapplications
Conflict of Interests
The authors declare that there is no conflict of interestsregarding the publication of this paper
Acknowledgments
This work is supported by the National Basic Research Pro-gram of China (ldquo973rdquo Program) (Grant no 2014CB046904)and theNationalNatural Science Foundation ofChina (Grantnos 41130742 and 11302242)
References
[1] A Zang and O Stephansson Stress Field of the Earthrsquos CrustSpringer Science amp Business Media 2009
[2] B Amadei and O Stephansson Rock Stress and Its Measure-ment Springer Dordrecht The Netherlands 1997
[3] C Ljunggren Y Chang T Janson and R Christiansson ldquoAnoverview of rock stress measurement methodsrdquo International
12 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences vol 40 no 7-8pp 975ndash989 2003
[4] R Corthesy M H Leite D E Gill and B Gaudin ldquoStressmeasurements in soft rocksrdquo Engineering Geology vol 69 no3-4 pp 381ndash397 2003
[5] R Ulusay The ISRM Suggested Methods for Rock Characteriza-tion Testing and Monitoring 2007ndash2014 Springer 2015
[6] C Liu ldquoDistribution laws of in-situ stress in deep undergroundcoal minesrdquo Procedia Engineering vol 26 pp 909ndash917 2011
[7] J Rutqvist C-F Tsang andO Stephansson ldquoUncertainty in themaximum principal stress estimated from hydraulic fracturingmeasurements due to the presence of the induced fracturerdquoInternational Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciencesvol 37 no 1-2 pp 107ndash120 2000
[8] C Ljunggren and G Raillard ldquoRock stress measurements bymeans of hydraulic tests on pre-existing fractures at Gideatest site Swedenrdquo International Journal of Rock Mechanics andMining Sciences amp Geomechanics Abstracts vol 24 no 6 pp339ndash345 1987
[9] B C Haimson and F H Cornet ldquoISRM suggested methodsfor rock stress estimation Part 3 Hydraulic fracturing (HF)andor hydraulic testing of pre-existing fractures (HTPF)rdquoInternational Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciencesvol 40 no 7-8 pp 1011ndash1020 2003
[10] M H Talebi S Heidari M Moosavi and M Rahimi ldquoIn situstress measurements of two hydropower projects in Iran byhydraulic fracturing methodrdquo Arabian Journal of Geosciencesvol 8 no 9 pp 7073ndash7085 2015
[11] M L Wu Y Q Zhang C T Liao et al ldquoPreliminary results ofin-situ stress measurements along the Longmenshan fault zoneafter theWenchuanM
11990480 earthquakerdquoActa Geologica Sinicamdash
English Edition vol 83 no 4 pp 746ndash753 2009[12] B Amadei Rock Anisotropy and the Theory of Stress Measure-
ments Springer 1983[13] P Thompson R Corthesy and M Leite ldquoRock stress measure-
ments at great depth using the modified doorstopper gaugerdquo inProceedings of the International Symposium Rock Stress JapanK Sugawara and Y Obara Eds pp 59ndash64 AA Balkema 1997
[14] G Della Vecchia A Pandolfi G Musso and G Capasso ldquoAnanalytical expression for the determination of in situ stress statefrom borehole data accounting for breakout sizerdquo InternationalJournal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences vol 66 pp 64ndash68 2014
[15] M Seto D K Nag and V S Vutukuri ldquoIn-situ rock stress mea-surement from rock cores using the acoustic emission methodand deformation rate analysisrdquo Geotechnical and GeologicalEngineering vol 17 no 3-4 pp 241ndash266 1999
[16] L Gao W Lin D Sun and H Wang ldquoExperimental anelas-tic strain recovery compliance of three typical rocksrdquo RockMechanics and Rock Engineering vol 47 no 6 pp 1987ndash19952014
[17] K Matsuki and K Takeuchi ldquoThree-dimensional in situ stressdetermination by anelastic strain recovery of a rock corerdquoInternational Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences ampGeomechanics Abstracts vol 30 no 7 pp 1019ndash1022 1993
[18] D Sun W Lin J Cui et al ldquoThree-dimensional in situ stressdetermination by anelastic strain recovery and its applicationat the Wenchuan Earthquake Fault Scientific Drilling Hole-1(WFSD-1)rdquo Science China Earth Sciences vol 57 no 6 pp 1212ndash1220 2014
[19] L Teufel ldquoDetermination of in situ stress from partial anelasticstrain recovery measurements of oriented cores from deepboreholesrdquo in Proceedings of the 34th US Rock MechanicsSymposium on Short Course Modern In Situ Stress MeasurementMethods pp 27ndash30 June 1993
[20] Z Guan Y Jiang and Y Tanabashi ldquoRheological parameterestimation for the prediction of long-term deformations inconventional tunnellingrdquo Tunnelling and Underground SpaceTechnology vol 24 no 3 pp 250ndash259 2009
[21] S Wassmann and B Stockhert ldquoRheology of the plateinterfacemdashdissolution precipitation creep in high pressuremetamorphic rocksrdquo Tectonophysics vol 608 pp 1ndash29 2013
[22] D F Malan ldquoTime-dependent behaviour of deep level tabularexcavations in hard rockrdquo Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineer-ing vol 32 no 2 pp 123ndash155 1999
[23] DM StefanescuHandbook of Force Transducers Principles andComponents Springer Science amp Business Media 2011
[24] A Fahimifar F M Tehrani A Hedayat and A VakilzadehldquoAnalytical solution for the excavation of circular tunnels ina visco-elastic Burgerrsquos material under hydrostatic stress fieldrdquoTunnelling andUnderground Space Technology vol 25 no 4 pp297ndash304 2010
[25] H N Wang Y Li Q Ni S Utili M J Jiang and F LiuldquoAnalytical solutions for the construction of deeply buriedcircular tunnels with two liners in rheological rockrdquo RockMechanics and Rock Engineering vol 46 no 6 pp 1481ndash14982013
[26] R E Goodman Introduction to Rock Mechanics Wiley NewYork NY USA 1989
[27] H Li ldquoMajor and minor structural features of a bedding shearzone along a coal seam and related gas outburst Pingdingshancoalfield Northern Chinardquo International Journal of Coal Geol-ogy vol 47 no 2 pp 101ndash113 2001
[28] J Sjoberg R Christiansson and J A Hudson ldquoISRM sug-gested methods for rock stress estimationmdashpart 2 overcoringmethodsrdquo International Journal of Rock Mechanics and MiningSciences vol 40 no 7-8 pp 999ndash1010 2003
[29] X R Ge and M X Hou ldquoPrinciple of in-situ 3D rock stressmeasurement with borehole wall stress relief method and itspreliminary applications to determination of in-situ rock stressorientation and magnitude in Jinping hydropower stationrdquoScience China Technological Sciences vol 55 no 4 pp 939ndash9492012
[30] Y Wang H Jing K Chen and L Wei ldquoStudy of distribu-tion regularities and regional division of in-situ stresses forPingdingshan Mining areardquo Chinese Journal of Rock Mechanicsand Engineering vol 33 no 1 pp 2620ndash2627 2014
[31] R Collins K Lee G Lilly and R Westmann ldquoMechanics ofpressure cellsrdquo Experimental Mechanics vol 12 no 11 pp 514ndash519 1972
[32] Y ZhuQ Liu J Jiang YHuang andY Pan ldquoMeasuring perfor-mance of three-dimensional pressure sensor in cement mortarblockrdquo Chinese Journal of Rock Mechanics and Engineering vol34 pp 1877ndash1885 2015
[33] D Skilton ldquoBehaviour of rigid inclusion stressmeters in vis-coelastic rockrdquo International Journal of Rock Mechanics andMining SciencesampGeomechanics Abstracts vol 8 no 4 pp 283ndash289 1971
Submit your manuscripts athttpwwwhindawicom
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
MathematicsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom
Differential EquationsInternational Journal of
Volume 2014
Applied MathematicsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Probability and StatisticsHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Mathematical PhysicsAdvances in
Complex AnalysisJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
OptimizationJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
CombinatoricsHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
International Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Operations ResearchAdvances in
Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Function Spaces
Abstract and Applied AnalysisHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
The Scientific World JournalHindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Algebra
Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Decision SciencesAdvances in
Discrete MathematicsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom
Volume 2014 Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Stochastic AnalysisInternational Journal of
10 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Table 2 In situ stress magnitudes by RSR method at the horizontal and vertical boreholes
Boreholeposition
1205901
1205902
1205903
Magnitude (MPa) Azimuth (∘) Dip (∘) Magnitude (MPa) Azimuth (∘) Dip (∘) Magnitude (MPa) Azimuth (∘) Dip (∘)Horizontal 2821 14887 378 2050 30664 8592 1780 5877 154Vertical 3056 1096 1511 2142 4583 7484 1994 1929 117
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
0
1000
2000
3000
4000
5000
6000
Mic
rostr
ain
valu
e
Overcoring depth (cm)
Channel 1 Channel 7Channel 2 Channel 8Channel 3 Channel 9Channel 4 Channel 10Channel 5 Channel 11Channel 6 Channel 12
minus1000
Figure 10 Stress relief curves during the overcoring of horizontalborehole at Number 1 coal mine
to NW-SE then to approximately EW [30] Figure 12 showsthat the major principle stress directions of testing pointsare mostly NW-SE and agree with those in the second andthird tectonicmovements which reveals that the in situ stressfield at present is caused primarily by the latter two tectonicmovements Therefore it can be said that the result from theRSR method is reliable and the new method for in situ stressmeasurement can be used to measure rock stresses
Through the practical application of the overcoring tech-nique and RSR method for in situ stress measurement inPingdingshan Number 1 coal mine it can be found that theRSR method may be a maneuverable and effective techniquein deep soft rock The accuracy of elastic parameters has agreat influence on the calculated results of stress magnitudesand orientations for overcoring technique However theexact elastic parameters of rockmass seemnot very necessaryfor RSRmethod with respect to conventional methods In theRSRmethod the stress values in different orientations can bemeasured by the pressure transducer directly and can be usedto calculate the stress tensor The accuracy of stress valuesis dependent on the calibration factor of the transducer thatcan be obtained from calibration test Based on the results ofcurrent research [31] the variation of the elastic modulus ofsurrounding material has little influence on the calibrationfactor when the elastic modulus ratio of the transducer to
0 100 200 300 400 500
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
1234
56Temperature
Time (day)Re
cove
ry st
ress
(MPa
)
10
15
20
25
30
35
Tem
pera
ture
(∘C)
Figure 11 Stress recovery process in the horizontal borehole ofPingdingshan Number 1 coal mine
the surrounding material is large enough Therefore the truerock stresses can be inferred by the rough elastic parametersThe measuring errors of RSR method caused by the elasticparameters are less than that of the conventional methods
For the RSR method the main requirement of rock massis good in rheological property Moreover the greater thedepth of testing site the better as the in situ stress at greaterdepth is generally bigger In addition the grouting qualityis very important for the RSR method and the groutingshould be accomplished as soon as possible after drilling thehole The different lateral pressure coefficient may have aninfluence on the stress values measured by the transducerwhich is caused by the difference between the transducer andsurroundingmaterialThrough the model test and numericalsimulation it has been found that the measured stresses werelinear to the loading stresses for the hydrostatic stress loadingand the measured stresses were linear to both the loadingstresses in the same direction and the differential stressesof the other two directions for the nonhydrostatic stressloading [32] The actual stress values on each sensing facecan be deduced by the combination of calibration coefficientsand the measured stress values although the lateral pressurecoefficient 120582 is unknown
The transducers that the RSRmethod uses can be embed-ded not only in the initial stress area to obtain themagnitudesof original stress but also in the excavation damage zone tomonitor the stress state variation It has been found that the
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 11
N
Max mid and min principal stresses of horizontal borehole by RSRMax mid and min principal stresses of vertical borehole by RSR
Max mid and min principal stresses of E = 5GPa by overcoringMax mid and min principal stresses of E = 8GPa by overcoring
Figure 12 Orientations of principal stresses by both overcoring technique and RSR method
stressmeter that is installed in a specimen under loadwill pickup the absolute ambient stress in the host when observed overa period of time concurrently it responded immediately toan increase of stress generated in the host after the time of itsinsertion [33]
The RSR method is used to measure the in situ stressbased on the rheological behavior of rock the longer themonitoring time is therefore the more precise the resultsbecome However further research is needed to see how tocalculate the stress state of one point through monitoring ina short time for engineering applications
7 Conclusions
For the measurement of the stress in deep soft rock a RSRmethod to determine the orientations and magnitudes of 3Din situ stress is proposed as well as its test equipment andprocess and analytical solutions were derived to analyze thecharacteristics of this method Then the RSR method aswell as overcoring technique was conducted in PingdingshanNumber 1 coal mine to measure both the in situ stressorientation and magnitude at a depth of 877m The resultsare summarized as follows
If the rock mass has a better rheological property therecovery stress measured by the transducer is more close tothe initial stress Moreover the grouting quality should beensured that the properties of grouting materials should beclose to that of rock masses in actual operation
These results tested by RSR method and overcoringtechnique are basically in the same order which validatesthat the RSR method is a useful method for deep soft rockmasses The major principal stresses are approximately in
the direction of NW-SE which correlates well with thestress regime of Pingdingshan zone known from the tectonicmovement history
The RSR method can be used to obtain more reliabledata when stress relief method cannot be applied in soft orhighly jointed rock masses under great depth Therefore itcan be said that the RSRmethodmay bewell suitable formorecomplicated geological conditions However more studiesare required to see how to calculate the stress state of onepoint through monitoring in a short time for engineeringapplications
Conflict of Interests
The authors declare that there is no conflict of interestsregarding the publication of this paper
Acknowledgments
This work is supported by the National Basic Research Pro-gram of China (ldquo973rdquo Program) (Grant no 2014CB046904)and theNationalNatural Science Foundation ofChina (Grantnos 41130742 and 11302242)
References
[1] A Zang and O Stephansson Stress Field of the Earthrsquos CrustSpringer Science amp Business Media 2009
[2] B Amadei and O Stephansson Rock Stress and Its Measure-ment Springer Dordrecht The Netherlands 1997
[3] C Ljunggren Y Chang T Janson and R Christiansson ldquoAnoverview of rock stress measurement methodsrdquo International
12 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences vol 40 no 7-8pp 975ndash989 2003
[4] R Corthesy M H Leite D E Gill and B Gaudin ldquoStressmeasurements in soft rocksrdquo Engineering Geology vol 69 no3-4 pp 381ndash397 2003
[5] R Ulusay The ISRM Suggested Methods for Rock Characteriza-tion Testing and Monitoring 2007ndash2014 Springer 2015
[6] C Liu ldquoDistribution laws of in-situ stress in deep undergroundcoal minesrdquo Procedia Engineering vol 26 pp 909ndash917 2011
[7] J Rutqvist C-F Tsang andO Stephansson ldquoUncertainty in themaximum principal stress estimated from hydraulic fracturingmeasurements due to the presence of the induced fracturerdquoInternational Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciencesvol 37 no 1-2 pp 107ndash120 2000
[8] C Ljunggren and G Raillard ldquoRock stress measurements bymeans of hydraulic tests on pre-existing fractures at Gideatest site Swedenrdquo International Journal of Rock Mechanics andMining Sciences amp Geomechanics Abstracts vol 24 no 6 pp339ndash345 1987
[9] B C Haimson and F H Cornet ldquoISRM suggested methodsfor rock stress estimation Part 3 Hydraulic fracturing (HF)andor hydraulic testing of pre-existing fractures (HTPF)rdquoInternational Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciencesvol 40 no 7-8 pp 1011ndash1020 2003
[10] M H Talebi S Heidari M Moosavi and M Rahimi ldquoIn situstress measurements of two hydropower projects in Iran byhydraulic fracturing methodrdquo Arabian Journal of Geosciencesvol 8 no 9 pp 7073ndash7085 2015
[11] M L Wu Y Q Zhang C T Liao et al ldquoPreliminary results ofin-situ stress measurements along the Longmenshan fault zoneafter theWenchuanM
11990480 earthquakerdquoActa Geologica Sinicamdash
English Edition vol 83 no 4 pp 746ndash753 2009[12] B Amadei Rock Anisotropy and the Theory of Stress Measure-
ments Springer 1983[13] P Thompson R Corthesy and M Leite ldquoRock stress measure-
ments at great depth using the modified doorstopper gaugerdquo inProceedings of the International Symposium Rock Stress JapanK Sugawara and Y Obara Eds pp 59ndash64 AA Balkema 1997
[14] G Della Vecchia A Pandolfi G Musso and G Capasso ldquoAnanalytical expression for the determination of in situ stress statefrom borehole data accounting for breakout sizerdquo InternationalJournal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences vol 66 pp 64ndash68 2014
[15] M Seto D K Nag and V S Vutukuri ldquoIn-situ rock stress mea-surement from rock cores using the acoustic emission methodand deformation rate analysisrdquo Geotechnical and GeologicalEngineering vol 17 no 3-4 pp 241ndash266 1999
[16] L Gao W Lin D Sun and H Wang ldquoExperimental anelas-tic strain recovery compliance of three typical rocksrdquo RockMechanics and Rock Engineering vol 47 no 6 pp 1987ndash19952014
[17] K Matsuki and K Takeuchi ldquoThree-dimensional in situ stressdetermination by anelastic strain recovery of a rock corerdquoInternational Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences ampGeomechanics Abstracts vol 30 no 7 pp 1019ndash1022 1993
[18] D Sun W Lin J Cui et al ldquoThree-dimensional in situ stressdetermination by anelastic strain recovery and its applicationat the Wenchuan Earthquake Fault Scientific Drilling Hole-1(WFSD-1)rdquo Science China Earth Sciences vol 57 no 6 pp 1212ndash1220 2014
[19] L Teufel ldquoDetermination of in situ stress from partial anelasticstrain recovery measurements of oriented cores from deepboreholesrdquo in Proceedings of the 34th US Rock MechanicsSymposium on Short Course Modern In Situ Stress MeasurementMethods pp 27ndash30 June 1993
[20] Z Guan Y Jiang and Y Tanabashi ldquoRheological parameterestimation for the prediction of long-term deformations inconventional tunnellingrdquo Tunnelling and Underground SpaceTechnology vol 24 no 3 pp 250ndash259 2009
[21] S Wassmann and B Stockhert ldquoRheology of the plateinterfacemdashdissolution precipitation creep in high pressuremetamorphic rocksrdquo Tectonophysics vol 608 pp 1ndash29 2013
[22] D F Malan ldquoTime-dependent behaviour of deep level tabularexcavations in hard rockrdquo Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineer-ing vol 32 no 2 pp 123ndash155 1999
[23] DM StefanescuHandbook of Force Transducers Principles andComponents Springer Science amp Business Media 2011
[24] A Fahimifar F M Tehrani A Hedayat and A VakilzadehldquoAnalytical solution for the excavation of circular tunnels ina visco-elastic Burgerrsquos material under hydrostatic stress fieldrdquoTunnelling andUnderground Space Technology vol 25 no 4 pp297ndash304 2010
[25] H N Wang Y Li Q Ni S Utili M J Jiang and F LiuldquoAnalytical solutions for the construction of deeply buriedcircular tunnels with two liners in rheological rockrdquo RockMechanics and Rock Engineering vol 46 no 6 pp 1481ndash14982013
[26] R E Goodman Introduction to Rock Mechanics Wiley NewYork NY USA 1989
[27] H Li ldquoMajor and minor structural features of a bedding shearzone along a coal seam and related gas outburst Pingdingshancoalfield Northern Chinardquo International Journal of Coal Geol-ogy vol 47 no 2 pp 101ndash113 2001
[28] J Sjoberg R Christiansson and J A Hudson ldquoISRM sug-gested methods for rock stress estimationmdashpart 2 overcoringmethodsrdquo International Journal of Rock Mechanics and MiningSciences vol 40 no 7-8 pp 999ndash1010 2003
[29] X R Ge and M X Hou ldquoPrinciple of in-situ 3D rock stressmeasurement with borehole wall stress relief method and itspreliminary applications to determination of in-situ rock stressorientation and magnitude in Jinping hydropower stationrdquoScience China Technological Sciences vol 55 no 4 pp 939ndash9492012
[30] Y Wang H Jing K Chen and L Wei ldquoStudy of distribu-tion regularities and regional division of in-situ stresses forPingdingshan Mining areardquo Chinese Journal of Rock Mechanicsand Engineering vol 33 no 1 pp 2620ndash2627 2014
[31] R Collins K Lee G Lilly and R Westmann ldquoMechanics ofpressure cellsrdquo Experimental Mechanics vol 12 no 11 pp 514ndash519 1972
[32] Y ZhuQ Liu J Jiang YHuang andY Pan ldquoMeasuring perfor-mance of three-dimensional pressure sensor in cement mortarblockrdquo Chinese Journal of Rock Mechanics and Engineering vol34 pp 1877ndash1885 2015
[33] D Skilton ldquoBehaviour of rigid inclusion stressmeters in vis-coelastic rockrdquo International Journal of Rock Mechanics andMining SciencesampGeomechanics Abstracts vol 8 no 4 pp 283ndash289 1971
Submit your manuscripts athttpwwwhindawicom
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
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Mathematical Problems in Engineering
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Differential EquationsInternational Journal of
Volume 2014
Applied MathematicsJournal of
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Probability and StatisticsHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Journal of
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Mathematical PhysicsAdvances in
Complex AnalysisJournal of
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OptimizationJournal of
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CombinatoricsHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
International Journal of
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Operations ResearchAdvances in
Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Function Spaces
Abstract and Applied AnalysisHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
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The Scientific World JournalHindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Algebra
Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Decision SciencesAdvances in
Discrete MathematicsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom
Volume 2014 Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Stochastic AnalysisInternational Journal of
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 11
N
Max mid and min principal stresses of horizontal borehole by RSRMax mid and min principal stresses of vertical borehole by RSR
Max mid and min principal stresses of E = 5GPa by overcoringMax mid and min principal stresses of E = 8GPa by overcoring
Figure 12 Orientations of principal stresses by both overcoring technique and RSR method
stressmeter that is installed in a specimen under loadwill pickup the absolute ambient stress in the host when observed overa period of time concurrently it responded immediately toan increase of stress generated in the host after the time of itsinsertion [33]
The RSR method is used to measure the in situ stressbased on the rheological behavior of rock the longer themonitoring time is therefore the more precise the resultsbecome However further research is needed to see how tocalculate the stress state of one point through monitoring ina short time for engineering applications
7 Conclusions
For the measurement of the stress in deep soft rock a RSRmethod to determine the orientations and magnitudes of 3Din situ stress is proposed as well as its test equipment andprocess and analytical solutions were derived to analyze thecharacteristics of this method Then the RSR method aswell as overcoring technique was conducted in PingdingshanNumber 1 coal mine to measure both the in situ stressorientation and magnitude at a depth of 877m The resultsare summarized as follows
If the rock mass has a better rheological property therecovery stress measured by the transducer is more close tothe initial stress Moreover the grouting quality should beensured that the properties of grouting materials should beclose to that of rock masses in actual operation
These results tested by RSR method and overcoringtechnique are basically in the same order which validatesthat the RSR method is a useful method for deep soft rockmasses The major principal stresses are approximately in
the direction of NW-SE which correlates well with thestress regime of Pingdingshan zone known from the tectonicmovement history
The RSR method can be used to obtain more reliabledata when stress relief method cannot be applied in soft orhighly jointed rock masses under great depth Therefore itcan be said that the RSRmethodmay bewell suitable formorecomplicated geological conditions However more studiesare required to see how to calculate the stress state of onepoint through monitoring in a short time for engineeringapplications
Conflict of Interests
The authors declare that there is no conflict of interestsregarding the publication of this paper
Acknowledgments
This work is supported by the National Basic Research Pro-gram of China (ldquo973rdquo Program) (Grant no 2014CB046904)and theNationalNatural Science Foundation ofChina (Grantnos 41130742 and 11302242)
References
[1] A Zang and O Stephansson Stress Field of the Earthrsquos CrustSpringer Science amp Business Media 2009
[2] B Amadei and O Stephansson Rock Stress and Its Measure-ment Springer Dordrecht The Netherlands 1997
[3] C Ljunggren Y Chang T Janson and R Christiansson ldquoAnoverview of rock stress measurement methodsrdquo International
12 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences vol 40 no 7-8pp 975ndash989 2003
[4] R Corthesy M H Leite D E Gill and B Gaudin ldquoStressmeasurements in soft rocksrdquo Engineering Geology vol 69 no3-4 pp 381ndash397 2003
[5] R Ulusay The ISRM Suggested Methods for Rock Characteriza-tion Testing and Monitoring 2007ndash2014 Springer 2015
[6] C Liu ldquoDistribution laws of in-situ stress in deep undergroundcoal minesrdquo Procedia Engineering vol 26 pp 909ndash917 2011
[7] J Rutqvist C-F Tsang andO Stephansson ldquoUncertainty in themaximum principal stress estimated from hydraulic fracturingmeasurements due to the presence of the induced fracturerdquoInternational Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciencesvol 37 no 1-2 pp 107ndash120 2000
[8] C Ljunggren and G Raillard ldquoRock stress measurements bymeans of hydraulic tests on pre-existing fractures at Gideatest site Swedenrdquo International Journal of Rock Mechanics andMining Sciences amp Geomechanics Abstracts vol 24 no 6 pp339ndash345 1987
[9] B C Haimson and F H Cornet ldquoISRM suggested methodsfor rock stress estimation Part 3 Hydraulic fracturing (HF)andor hydraulic testing of pre-existing fractures (HTPF)rdquoInternational Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciencesvol 40 no 7-8 pp 1011ndash1020 2003
[10] M H Talebi S Heidari M Moosavi and M Rahimi ldquoIn situstress measurements of two hydropower projects in Iran byhydraulic fracturing methodrdquo Arabian Journal of Geosciencesvol 8 no 9 pp 7073ndash7085 2015
[11] M L Wu Y Q Zhang C T Liao et al ldquoPreliminary results ofin-situ stress measurements along the Longmenshan fault zoneafter theWenchuanM
11990480 earthquakerdquoActa Geologica Sinicamdash
English Edition vol 83 no 4 pp 746ndash753 2009[12] B Amadei Rock Anisotropy and the Theory of Stress Measure-
ments Springer 1983[13] P Thompson R Corthesy and M Leite ldquoRock stress measure-
ments at great depth using the modified doorstopper gaugerdquo inProceedings of the International Symposium Rock Stress JapanK Sugawara and Y Obara Eds pp 59ndash64 AA Balkema 1997
[14] G Della Vecchia A Pandolfi G Musso and G Capasso ldquoAnanalytical expression for the determination of in situ stress statefrom borehole data accounting for breakout sizerdquo InternationalJournal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences vol 66 pp 64ndash68 2014
[15] M Seto D K Nag and V S Vutukuri ldquoIn-situ rock stress mea-surement from rock cores using the acoustic emission methodand deformation rate analysisrdquo Geotechnical and GeologicalEngineering vol 17 no 3-4 pp 241ndash266 1999
[16] L Gao W Lin D Sun and H Wang ldquoExperimental anelas-tic strain recovery compliance of three typical rocksrdquo RockMechanics and Rock Engineering vol 47 no 6 pp 1987ndash19952014
[17] K Matsuki and K Takeuchi ldquoThree-dimensional in situ stressdetermination by anelastic strain recovery of a rock corerdquoInternational Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences ampGeomechanics Abstracts vol 30 no 7 pp 1019ndash1022 1993
[18] D Sun W Lin J Cui et al ldquoThree-dimensional in situ stressdetermination by anelastic strain recovery and its applicationat the Wenchuan Earthquake Fault Scientific Drilling Hole-1(WFSD-1)rdquo Science China Earth Sciences vol 57 no 6 pp 1212ndash1220 2014
[19] L Teufel ldquoDetermination of in situ stress from partial anelasticstrain recovery measurements of oriented cores from deepboreholesrdquo in Proceedings of the 34th US Rock MechanicsSymposium on Short Course Modern In Situ Stress MeasurementMethods pp 27ndash30 June 1993
[20] Z Guan Y Jiang and Y Tanabashi ldquoRheological parameterestimation for the prediction of long-term deformations inconventional tunnellingrdquo Tunnelling and Underground SpaceTechnology vol 24 no 3 pp 250ndash259 2009
[21] S Wassmann and B Stockhert ldquoRheology of the plateinterfacemdashdissolution precipitation creep in high pressuremetamorphic rocksrdquo Tectonophysics vol 608 pp 1ndash29 2013
[22] D F Malan ldquoTime-dependent behaviour of deep level tabularexcavations in hard rockrdquo Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineer-ing vol 32 no 2 pp 123ndash155 1999
[23] DM StefanescuHandbook of Force Transducers Principles andComponents Springer Science amp Business Media 2011
[24] A Fahimifar F M Tehrani A Hedayat and A VakilzadehldquoAnalytical solution for the excavation of circular tunnels ina visco-elastic Burgerrsquos material under hydrostatic stress fieldrdquoTunnelling andUnderground Space Technology vol 25 no 4 pp297ndash304 2010
[25] H N Wang Y Li Q Ni S Utili M J Jiang and F LiuldquoAnalytical solutions for the construction of deeply buriedcircular tunnels with two liners in rheological rockrdquo RockMechanics and Rock Engineering vol 46 no 6 pp 1481ndash14982013
[26] R E Goodman Introduction to Rock Mechanics Wiley NewYork NY USA 1989
[27] H Li ldquoMajor and minor structural features of a bedding shearzone along a coal seam and related gas outburst Pingdingshancoalfield Northern Chinardquo International Journal of Coal Geol-ogy vol 47 no 2 pp 101ndash113 2001
[28] J Sjoberg R Christiansson and J A Hudson ldquoISRM sug-gested methods for rock stress estimationmdashpart 2 overcoringmethodsrdquo International Journal of Rock Mechanics and MiningSciences vol 40 no 7-8 pp 999ndash1010 2003
[29] X R Ge and M X Hou ldquoPrinciple of in-situ 3D rock stressmeasurement with borehole wall stress relief method and itspreliminary applications to determination of in-situ rock stressorientation and magnitude in Jinping hydropower stationrdquoScience China Technological Sciences vol 55 no 4 pp 939ndash9492012
[30] Y Wang H Jing K Chen and L Wei ldquoStudy of distribu-tion regularities and regional division of in-situ stresses forPingdingshan Mining areardquo Chinese Journal of Rock Mechanicsand Engineering vol 33 no 1 pp 2620ndash2627 2014
[31] R Collins K Lee G Lilly and R Westmann ldquoMechanics ofpressure cellsrdquo Experimental Mechanics vol 12 no 11 pp 514ndash519 1972
[32] Y ZhuQ Liu J Jiang YHuang andY Pan ldquoMeasuring perfor-mance of three-dimensional pressure sensor in cement mortarblockrdquo Chinese Journal of Rock Mechanics and Engineering vol34 pp 1877ndash1885 2015
[33] D Skilton ldquoBehaviour of rigid inclusion stressmeters in vis-coelastic rockrdquo International Journal of Rock Mechanics andMining SciencesampGeomechanics Abstracts vol 8 no 4 pp 283ndash289 1971
Submit your manuscripts athttpwwwhindawicom
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
MathematicsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom
Differential EquationsInternational Journal of
Volume 2014
Applied MathematicsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Probability and StatisticsHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Mathematical PhysicsAdvances in
Complex AnalysisJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
OptimizationJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
CombinatoricsHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
International Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Operations ResearchAdvances in
Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Function Spaces
Abstract and Applied AnalysisHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
The Scientific World JournalHindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Algebra
Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Decision SciencesAdvances in
Discrete MathematicsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom
Volume 2014 Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Stochastic AnalysisInternational Journal of
12 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences vol 40 no 7-8pp 975ndash989 2003
[4] R Corthesy M H Leite D E Gill and B Gaudin ldquoStressmeasurements in soft rocksrdquo Engineering Geology vol 69 no3-4 pp 381ndash397 2003
[5] R Ulusay The ISRM Suggested Methods for Rock Characteriza-tion Testing and Monitoring 2007ndash2014 Springer 2015
[6] C Liu ldquoDistribution laws of in-situ stress in deep undergroundcoal minesrdquo Procedia Engineering vol 26 pp 909ndash917 2011
[7] J Rutqvist C-F Tsang andO Stephansson ldquoUncertainty in themaximum principal stress estimated from hydraulic fracturingmeasurements due to the presence of the induced fracturerdquoInternational Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciencesvol 37 no 1-2 pp 107ndash120 2000
[8] C Ljunggren and G Raillard ldquoRock stress measurements bymeans of hydraulic tests on pre-existing fractures at Gideatest site Swedenrdquo International Journal of Rock Mechanics andMining Sciences amp Geomechanics Abstracts vol 24 no 6 pp339ndash345 1987
[9] B C Haimson and F H Cornet ldquoISRM suggested methodsfor rock stress estimation Part 3 Hydraulic fracturing (HF)andor hydraulic testing of pre-existing fractures (HTPF)rdquoInternational Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciencesvol 40 no 7-8 pp 1011ndash1020 2003
[10] M H Talebi S Heidari M Moosavi and M Rahimi ldquoIn situstress measurements of two hydropower projects in Iran byhydraulic fracturing methodrdquo Arabian Journal of Geosciencesvol 8 no 9 pp 7073ndash7085 2015
[11] M L Wu Y Q Zhang C T Liao et al ldquoPreliminary results ofin-situ stress measurements along the Longmenshan fault zoneafter theWenchuanM
11990480 earthquakerdquoActa Geologica Sinicamdash
English Edition vol 83 no 4 pp 746ndash753 2009[12] B Amadei Rock Anisotropy and the Theory of Stress Measure-
ments Springer 1983[13] P Thompson R Corthesy and M Leite ldquoRock stress measure-
ments at great depth using the modified doorstopper gaugerdquo inProceedings of the International Symposium Rock Stress JapanK Sugawara and Y Obara Eds pp 59ndash64 AA Balkema 1997
[14] G Della Vecchia A Pandolfi G Musso and G Capasso ldquoAnanalytical expression for the determination of in situ stress statefrom borehole data accounting for breakout sizerdquo InternationalJournal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences vol 66 pp 64ndash68 2014
[15] M Seto D K Nag and V S Vutukuri ldquoIn-situ rock stress mea-surement from rock cores using the acoustic emission methodand deformation rate analysisrdquo Geotechnical and GeologicalEngineering vol 17 no 3-4 pp 241ndash266 1999
[16] L Gao W Lin D Sun and H Wang ldquoExperimental anelas-tic strain recovery compliance of three typical rocksrdquo RockMechanics and Rock Engineering vol 47 no 6 pp 1987ndash19952014
[17] K Matsuki and K Takeuchi ldquoThree-dimensional in situ stressdetermination by anelastic strain recovery of a rock corerdquoInternational Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences ampGeomechanics Abstracts vol 30 no 7 pp 1019ndash1022 1993
[18] D Sun W Lin J Cui et al ldquoThree-dimensional in situ stressdetermination by anelastic strain recovery and its applicationat the Wenchuan Earthquake Fault Scientific Drilling Hole-1(WFSD-1)rdquo Science China Earth Sciences vol 57 no 6 pp 1212ndash1220 2014
[19] L Teufel ldquoDetermination of in situ stress from partial anelasticstrain recovery measurements of oriented cores from deepboreholesrdquo in Proceedings of the 34th US Rock MechanicsSymposium on Short Course Modern In Situ Stress MeasurementMethods pp 27ndash30 June 1993
[20] Z Guan Y Jiang and Y Tanabashi ldquoRheological parameterestimation for the prediction of long-term deformations inconventional tunnellingrdquo Tunnelling and Underground SpaceTechnology vol 24 no 3 pp 250ndash259 2009
[21] S Wassmann and B Stockhert ldquoRheology of the plateinterfacemdashdissolution precipitation creep in high pressuremetamorphic rocksrdquo Tectonophysics vol 608 pp 1ndash29 2013
[22] D F Malan ldquoTime-dependent behaviour of deep level tabularexcavations in hard rockrdquo Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineer-ing vol 32 no 2 pp 123ndash155 1999
[23] DM StefanescuHandbook of Force Transducers Principles andComponents Springer Science amp Business Media 2011
[24] A Fahimifar F M Tehrani A Hedayat and A VakilzadehldquoAnalytical solution for the excavation of circular tunnels ina visco-elastic Burgerrsquos material under hydrostatic stress fieldrdquoTunnelling andUnderground Space Technology vol 25 no 4 pp297ndash304 2010
[25] H N Wang Y Li Q Ni S Utili M J Jiang and F LiuldquoAnalytical solutions for the construction of deeply buriedcircular tunnels with two liners in rheological rockrdquo RockMechanics and Rock Engineering vol 46 no 6 pp 1481ndash14982013
[26] R E Goodman Introduction to Rock Mechanics Wiley NewYork NY USA 1989
[27] H Li ldquoMajor and minor structural features of a bedding shearzone along a coal seam and related gas outburst Pingdingshancoalfield Northern Chinardquo International Journal of Coal Geol-ogy vol 47 no 2 pp 101ndash113 2001
[28] J Sjoberg R Christiansson and J A Hudson ldquoISRM sug-gested methods for rock stress estimationmdashpart 2 overcoringmethodsrdquo International Journal of Rock Mechanics and MiningSciences vol 40 no 7-8 pp 999ndash1010 2003
[29] X R Ge and M X Hou ldquoPrinciple of in-situ 3D rock stressmeasurement with borehole wall stress relief method and itspreliminary applications to determination of in-situ rock stressorientation and magnitude in Jinping hydropower stationrdquoScience China Technological Sciences vol 55 no 4 pp 939ndash9492012
[30] Y Wang H Jing K Chen and L Wei ldquoStudy of distribu-tion regularities and regional division of in-situ stresses forPingdingshan Mining areardquo Chinese Journal of Rock Mechanicsand Engineering vol 33 no 1 pp 2620ndash2627 2014
[31] R Collins K Lee G Lilly and R Westmann ldquoMechanics ofpressure cellsrdquo Experimental Mechanics vol 12 no 11 pp 514ndash519 1972
[32] Y ZhuQ Liu J Jiang YHuang andY Pan ldquoMeasuring perfor-mance of three-dimensional pressure sensor in cement mortarblockrdquo Chinese Journal of Rock Mechanics and Engineering vol34 pp 1877ndash1885 2015
[33] D Skilton ldquoBehaviour of rigid inclusion stressmeters in vis-coelastic rockrdquo International Journal of Rock Mechanics andMining SciencesampGeomechanics Abstracts vol 8 no 4 pp 283ndash289 1971
Submit your manuscripts athttpwwwhindawicom
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
MathematicsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom
Differential EquationsInternational Journal of
Volume 2014
Applied MathematicsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Probability and StatisticsHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Mathematical PhysicsAdvances in
Complex AnalysisJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
OptimizationJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
CombinatoricsHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
International Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Operations ResearchAdvances in
Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Function Spaces
Abstract and Applied AnalysisHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
The Scientific World JournalHindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Algebra
Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Decision SciencesAdvances in
Discrete MathematicsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom
Volume 2014 Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Stochastic AnalysisInternational Journal of
Submit your manuscripts athttpwwwhindawicom
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
MathematicsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom
Differential EquationsInternational Journal of
Volume 2014
Applied MathematicsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Probability and StatisticsHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Mathematical PhysicsAdvances in
Complex AnalysisJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
OptimizationJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
CombinatoricsHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
International Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Operations ResearchAdvances in
Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Function Spaces
Abstract and Applied AnalysisHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
The Scientific World JournalHindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Algebra
Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Decision SciencesAdvances in
Discrete MathematicsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom
Volume 2014 Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Stochastic AnalysisInternational Journal of