The anisotropic properties analysis of the rock mass surrounding the roadway' s in seepage and stress field

Abstract：Depending on the sandstone roadway on the floor of No. 12 coal seam in Fangezhuang Coal Mine,a 3D con- tact-free measuring system, named as ShapeMetriX3D, was employed to capture discontinuities on the face of the road- way and obtain statistical parameters for each set of discontinuities. And then, fracture network was generated by Mont- Carlo method. Permeability tensor of rock mass was calculated by the discrete medium seepage method, and the elastic- ity tensor of rock mass was obtained by geometrical damage theory. Then, scale effect and anisotropic behaviors of rock mass were studied. Finally, an anisotropic percolation mechanics model of surrounding rock mass of the roadway was built under plane strain condition. Using COMSOL multiphysics code, the stress field and seepage field surrounding the roadway were obtained, which can take into account the influence of orientation of discontinuities. Furthermore, the in- fluences of principal direction of rock mass properties on stress, seepage and damage zone were discussed. The results show that the anisotropic properties of rock mass have a great influence on simulated results, and the anisotropic model based on equivalent continuum mechanics can reflect the effect of discontinuities, which is agree with engineering practice.