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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Earth Sci.

Sec. Geohazards and Georisks

Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/feart.2025.1586883

This article is part of the Research Topic Natural Hazards Accompanying Underground Exploitation of Mineral Raw Materials View all articles

Joint response characteristics of AE and PSC in coal rheological-impact process

Provisionally accepted
Dongming Wang Dongming Wang 1Xueqiu He Xueqiu He 2Enyuan Wang Enyuan Wang 1*Changqing Li Changqing Li 3Dexing Li Dexing Li 1Zihao Mao Zihao Mao 1
  • 1 China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, China
  • 2 University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, Beijing Municipality, China
  • 3 Shandong Energy Group Luxi Mining Co., Ltd, Heze, China

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    A combined monitoring experiment of pressure stimulated currents (PSC) and acoustic emission (AE) signals was conducted on coal samples under the coupled action of rheology and impact load. The temporal response characteristics of AE and PSC were analyzed, and a nonlinear fitting method was used to obtain the functional relationship between AE increment and the number of impacts. Based on the non-extensive statistical mechanics theory, the non-extensive parameter of the PSC decay process was calculated, and the decay law of PSC over time after impact loading was analyzed. The results show that AE and PSC signals can synchronously reflect the deformation and failure behavior of coal samples under rheological and impact loading conditions. During the impact loading stage, both AE counts and PSC signals exhibit a simultaneous surge, demonstrating distinct instantaneous response characteristics. In the subsequent rheological stage, the AE signal manifests as sporadic counts, while the PSC rapidly decays in a power law manner to a stable value. As the rheological stress level and the number of impacts increase, both the maximum and stable values of the PSC exhibit a gradual decreasing trend. The non-extensive statistical mechanics analysis indicates that PSC decay exhibits non-extensive characteristics, with a significant reduction in before impact failure, suggesting that q can be used to assess coal mass stability.

    Keywords: Rockburst, Rheology-Impact, AE, PSC, Combined monitoring

    Received: 03 Mar 2025; Accepted: 24 Mar 2025.

    Copyright: © 2025 Wang, He, Wang, Li, Li and Mao. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Enyuan Wang, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, China

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