Water inrush is one of the most dangerous disasters in coal mining. Due to the large-scale
mining and complicated hydrogeological conditions, thousands of deaths and huge …

A large number of abandoned mines with sizeable underground space resources were
formed in China. Meanwhile, for an operational mine, the protection and utilization of mine …

When fault fracture zones are encountered in the mining tunnel excavation, the water-
conducting pathway is easily formed by the granular structure of the broken surrounding …

Fault rock is a typical hazardous material of water–silt inrush during the excavation in
underground mines. To investigate hydraulic characteristics of fault rock during the water …

Gangue backfilling mining (GBM) can effectively alleviate the gangue accumulation pollution
and the overburden aquifer destruction. To efficiently evaluate the reutilization of gangue …

Underground rock structures are frequently subjected to water erosion and dynamic
disturbance simultaneously. Herein, in order to study the coupled effects of water and high …

Cemented paste backfill (CPB) technology is beneficial to the recycling of solid wastes and
sustainable development in mines. However, the wetting-drying cycle caused by water …

Water and mud inrush is one of the most important geohazards in underground engineering.
The paper presents a state-of-the-art review of the current understanding of this type of …

The precise determination of unfrozen water content is of great significance to understand
the freezing process of pore water and reveal the freeze-induced damage mechanism for …

Rock in the geothermal reservoir is frequently subjected to cyclic heating and cooling, and
fracture characteristics are closely related to the stable operation of Enhanced Geothermal …