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23 Citations
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19 Pages

Rockburst Intensity Level Prediction Method Based on FA-SSA-PNN Model

  • Gang Xu,
  • Kegang Li,
  • Mingliang Li,
  • Qingci Qin and
  • Rui Yue

8 July 2022

To accurately and reliably predict the occurrence of rockburst disasters, a rockburst intensity level prediction model based on FA-SSA-PNN is proposed. Crding to the internal and external factors of rockburst occurrence, six rockburst influencing fac...

(This article belongs to the Topic Numerical Methods and Computer Simulations in Energy Analysis, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,289 Views
15 Pages

27 May 2020

Rockburst disasters in deep tunnels cause serious casualties and economic losses. It is a great challenge to make a warning for rockbursts in geotechnical engineering. In this work, a microseismicity-based rockburst intensity warning method is propos...

(This article belongs to the Section H: Geo-Energy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,558 Views
22 Pages

22 July 2022

To improve the accuracy of predicting rockburst intensity, game theory and an improved maximum entropy-attribute measure interval model were established. First, by studying the mechanism of rockburst and typical cases, rock uniaxial compressive stren...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Mathematical Approaches to Engineering and Computational Problems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
486 Views
21 Pages

12 September 2026

Rockburst intensity prediction from heterogeneous engineering databases is constrained by small sample sizes and inconsistent grading practices across data sources. This study develops a framework that couples the pre-trained tabular foundation model...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,010 Views
19 Pages

Comprehensive Prediction and Discriminant Model for Rockburst Intensity Based on Improved Variable Fuzzy Sets Approach

  • Hong Wang,
  • Lei Nie,
  • Yan Xu,
  • Yan Lv and ,
  • Yuanyuan He,
  • Chao Du,
  • Tao Zhang and
  • Yuzheng Wang
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

4 August 2019

Rockburst intensity prediction is one of the basic works of underground engineering disaster prevention and mitigation. Considering the dynamic variability and fuzziness in rockburst intensity prediction, variable fuzzy sets (VFS) are selected for ev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
486 Views
34 Pages

6 July 2026

Rockburst intensity prediction is commonly formulated as a hard-label classification problem, although rockburst grades are ordered, transitional, and often ambiguous under sparse geomechanical indicators. This study integrates three publicly availab...

(This article belongs to the Section Earth Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,553 Views
18 Pages

14 April 2023

A rockburst is a dynamic disaster that may result in considerable damage to mines and pose a threat to personnel safety. Accurately predicting rockburst intensity is critical for ensuring mine safety and reducing economic losses. First, based on the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Mathematical, Numerical and Artificial Intelligence Methods in Rock Engineering Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,387 Views
23 Pages

16 August 2025

Precise forecasting of rockburst intensity categories is vital to safeguarding operational safety and refining design protocols in deep underground engineering. This study proposes an intelligent forecasting framework through the integration of k-med...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Technologies and Methods for Exploitation of Geological Resources, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
635 Views
27 Pages

Model for Predicting the Rockburst Intensity Grade in Gently Dipping Rock Strata via MIPSO-RF

  • Junwei Ma,
  • Kepeng Hou,
  • Huafen Sun,
  • Yalei Zhe and ,
  • Qunzhi Cheng,
  • Zhigang Zhu,
  • Lidie Wang and
  • Zixu Wang
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

13 January 2026

This study aims to improve the prediction accuracy of rockburst intensity grades in gently dipping rock strata, and provide reliable technical support for risk prevention, long-term stable production and sustainable development in underground enginee...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
4,589 Views
22 Pages

Deep Learning in Rockburst Intensity Level Prediction: Performance Evaluation and Comparison of the NGO-CNN-BiGRU-Attention Model

  • Hengyu Liu,
  • Tianxing Ma,
  • Yun Lin,
  • Kang Peng and ,
  • Xiangqi Hu,
  • Shijie Xie and
  • Kun Luo
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

29 June 2024

Rockburst is an extremely hazardous geological disaster. In order to accurately predict the hazardous degree of rockbursts, this paper proposes eight new classification models for predicting the intensity level of rockbursts based on intelligent opti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Rock Mechanics in Geotechnical and Tunnel Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
611 Views
25 Pages

29 July 2026

As mineral resource development moves deeper into the earth, mine dynamic disasters, represented by rockbursts, occur frequently. Due to the combined effects of in situ rock stress state and geostress conditions, it is difficult to obtain reliable pr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Monitoring, Modelling and Forecasting of Mining Process Hazards)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,738 Views
21 Pages

5 January 2024

Rockbursts are hazardous phenomena of sudden and violent rock failure in deep underground excavations under high geostress conditions, which poses a serious threat to geotechnical engineering. The occurrence of rockbursts is influenced by a combinati...

(This article belongs to the Topic Physical Monitoring and Healthy Controlling of Geotechnical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
3,191 Views
29 Pages

7 February 2023

Rockburst is a common and huge hazard in underground engineering, and the scientific prediction of rockburst disasters can reduce the risks caused by rockburst. At present, developing an accurate and reliable rockburst risk prediction model remains a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,223 Views
18 Pages

16 November 2023

Rigid structural planes encountered during construction have an obvious influence on rockburst intensity and occurrence mechanism. The high-intensity rockburst induced by the structural plane poses a great threat to the safety construction of the tun...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Future Trends in Tunnel and Underground Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,956 Views
20 Pages

Optimization of Rockburst Risk Control Measures for Deeply Buried TBM Tunnels: A Case Study

  • Pengxiang Li,
  • Jinshuai Zhao,
  • Wankui Bu,
  • Wenjing Niu and ,
  • Pinpin Liu and
  • Minghong Sun
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Choosing reasonable control measures for different intensity rockburst risks not only effectively prevents and mitigates rockburst risks but also reduces time and engineering investment costs. Due to the limitations of the tunnel boring machine&rsquo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances and Applications in Geotechnical and Structural Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,179 Views
21 Pages

Mechanisms of Tunnel Rockburst Development Under Complex Geostress Conditions in Plateau Regions

  • Can Yang,
  • Jinfeng Li,
  • Yuan Qian,
  • Wu Bo and ,
  • Gen Zhang,
  • Cheng Zhao and
  • Kunming Zhao
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

31 July 2025

The Qinghai–Xizang Plateau and its surrounding regions have experienced intense tectonic activity, resulting in complex geostress environments that cause frequent and distinctive rockburst disasters in plateau tunnel engineering. In this study,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,421 Views
17 Pages

Research on Stress Characteristics of Rockburst in Over-Length Deep-Buried Tunnel

  • Chun Luo,
  • Shishu Zhang,
  • Bihua Tang,
  • Jun Chen and ,
  • Chonglin Yin and
  • Huayun Li
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

As a unique geological hazard in a high-geo-stress environment, rockburst happens with strong suddenness, randomness, and destructiveness, but the mechanism of its occurrence in a deep-buried tunnel in a high-geo-stress environment needs further stud...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research on the Construction Mechanical Behavior and Deformation Characteristics of Lining Structure—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
624 Views
21 Pages

11 April 2026

During the excavation of the Qinling Water Conveyance Tunnel, rockbursts influenced by structural planes with varying dip angles occurred frequently, posing a significant threat to personnel and construction safety. This study combines statistical an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Rock Mechanics and Mining Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,481 Views
26 Pages

19 July 2021

Taking the “11.28” rockburst occurred in the Jinping II Hydropower Station as the engineering background, the evolution mechanism of structure-type rockburst was studied in detail based on the particle flow code. The results indicate that the failure...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering)
  • Review
  • Open Access
79 Citations
9,906 Views
33 Pages

Development of Rockburst Research: A Comprehensive Review

  • Meng Wu,
  • Yicheng Ye,
  • Qihu Wang and
  • Nanyan Hu

18 January 2022

Rockburst is a difficult problem in underground resource development and infrastructure construction. With scientific and technological progress, more research technologies and methods to prevent rockburst have been proposed and applied. Research con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,337 Views
15 Pages

Evolution of the Fracture Characteristics in a Rockburst under Different Stress Gradients

  • Shuaidong Yang,
  • Yueming Gao,
  • Xiqi Liu,
  • Gang Wang and ,
  • Leibo Song and
  • Chunyan Bao
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

8 November 2022

The variation in principal stress ratio and principal stress direction deflection caused by the stress gradient distribution of surrounding rock is one of the reasons leading to different types of strain rockbursts. Two typical rockburst failure mode...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Materials Engineering in Construction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,362 Views
19 Pages

9 November 2024

Rockburst is a common dynamic geological disaster in underground mining and tunneling engineering, characterized by randomness, abruptness, and impact. Short-term evaluation of rockburst potential plays an outsize role in ensuring the safety of worke...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Numerical Model and Artificial Intelligence in Mining Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,323 Views
20 Pages

10 November 2022

The laboratory discrimination tests of the rockburst tendency and AE tests under the uniaxial compression were conducted on the limestone. Three criterions were used to judge the rockburst tendency of the limestone with a buried depth of 600–10...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Rockburst Mechanism and Its Prevention and Control in Underground Mines)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,914 Views
13 Pages

20 November 2021

Accurately evaluating rockburst intensity has attracted much attention in these recent years, as it can guide the design of engineering in deep underground conditions and avoid injury to people. In this study, a new ensemble classifier combining a ra...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Analytical, Numerical and Big-Data-Based Methods in Deep Rock Mechanics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
4,188 Views
21 Pages

22 November 2018

Rockburst disaster is one of the prominent problems faced by deep underground engineering. Microseismic (MS) monitoring techniques can be used to warn of rockburst in tunnels to provide scientific basis for rock burst prevention and control measures....

  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,656 Views
16 Pages

Rockburst Precursors and the Dynamic Failure Mechanism of the Deep Tunnel: A Review

  • Yulong Chen,
  • Junwen Zhang,
  • Jiahao Zhang,
  • Bin Xu and ,
  • Luji Zhang and
  • Wenxin Li
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

12 November 2021

With the rapid development of underground caverns in the fields of hydraulic engineering, mining, railway and highway, the frequency, and intensity of rockburst and dynamic instability have gradually increased, which has become a bottleneck restricti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Rock Burst Disasters in Coal Mines)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,089 Views
27 Pages

Generative AI and Prompt Engineering: Transforming Rockburst Prediction in Underground Construction

  • Muhammad Kamran,
  • Muhammad Faizan,
  • Shuhong Wang,
  • Bowen Han and
  • Wei-Yi Wang

14 April 2025

The construction industry is undergoing a transformative shift through automation, with advancements in Generative AI (GenAI) and prompt engineering enhancing safety and efficiency, particularly in high-risk fields like underground construction, geot...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Project Development and Construction Management—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,026 Views
19 Pages

10 June 2024

To investigate the influence of water content on the rockburst phenomena in tunnels with horizontal joints, experiments were conducted on simulated rock specimens exhibiting five distinct levels of water absorption. Real-time monitoring of the entire...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modeling and Analysis of Damage and Failure of Concrete-Like, Brittle and Quasi-Brittle Materials (Second Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,087 Views
13 Pages

26 May 2024

Upon reaching deeper levels of extraction, dynamic hazards such as rockburst become more pronounced, with the high energy storage characteristics of rock masses in high-stress environments being the fundamental factor behind rockburst disasters. Addi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Numerical Simulation and Application of Process in Deep Mining Engineering and Petroleum Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
65 Citations
5,096 Views
17 Pages

10 June 2019

Hydropower is one of the most important renewable energy sources. However, the safe construction of hydropower stations is seriously affected by disasters like rockburst, which, in turn, restricts the sustainable development of hydropower energy. In...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence for Renewable Energy Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
777 Views
24 Pages

Stress Deflection Effect and Rockburst Mechanism in Staggered Roadways Beneath “L-Shaped” Residual Pillar

  • Qiang Lu,
  • Jiancheng Jin,
  • Siyuan Gong,
  • Hui Li and ,
  • Rupei Zhang,
  • Bingrui Chen,
  • Ying Qu and
  • Zonglong Mu
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

11 February 2026

Frequent rockbursts in staggered roadways beneath residual coal pillars pose a critical challenge for the slice mining of ultra-thick coal seams. Taking the LW250101-2 of Huating Coal Mine as a case study, this paper systematically reveals the stress...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,789 Views
26 Pages

Approach for Microseismic Monitoring Data-Driven Rockburst Short-Term Prediction Using Deep Feature Extraction and Interpretable Coupling Neural Networks

  • Shirui Wang,
  • Lianku Xie,
  • Yimeng Song,
  • Peng Liu and ,
  • Yuan Gao,
  • Guang Zhang,
  • Yang Yuan,
  • Shukai Jin and
  • Zhongyu Wang
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

23 October 2025

Rockburst disasters have become increasingly prevalent as distinct forms of subsurface geotechnical engineering advanced to the deep earth. Confronted with such a threatening subsurface geopressure disaster that poses a risk to personnel and equipmen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,788 Views
32 Pages

5 September 2023

Rockbursts pose a significant threat to human safety and environmental stability. This paper aims to predict rockburst intensity using a machine learning model. A dataset containing 344 rockburst cases was collected, with eight inducing features as i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Research of Geotechnical Engineering Developments in Underground Space and Tunnel Excavation)
  • Review
  • Open Access
409 Views
53 Pages

Research Progress on the Impact of Structural Planes on Tunnel Rockburst Based on Engineering Cases and Laboratory Tests

  • Xinqiang Gao,
  • Tengjie Yang,
  • Beiyi Dong,
  • Yongqing Xue and ,
  • Haobo Fan,
  • Zhengguo Zhu,
  • Yueqi Zheng and
  • Dongliang Ji
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

30 August 2026

Rockbursts occur frequently in deep hard-rock tunnels, posing a major challenge to the safe and efficient construction of underground engineering. Engineering practice shows that in addition to high in-situ stress and hard brittle lithology, widely d...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Structures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
361 Views
20 Pages

Influences of Internal Unloading and Lateral Stress on Rockburst Behavior in Deep Hard Rock Roadways

  • Xuefeng Si,
  • Yankun Ma,
  • Zilong Zhang,
  • Bo Meng and ,
  • Qiucai Zhang,
  • Song Luo and
  • Yong Luo
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

27 June 2026

To explore the effects of internal unloading and lateral stress on rockburst behavior in deep hard rock roadways, rockburst simulation tests were executed utilizing a self-developed internal unloading apparatus. A miniature camera was employed to mon...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,684 Views
18 Pages

Comparative Study on the Prevention and Control Effects of Rockburst Between Hydraulic Fracturing Sections and Blank Sections

  • Shuo Yang,
  • Jiang Bian,
  • Aixin Liu,
  • Xiaoyang Li and ,
  • Fuhong Li,
  • Xingen Ma and
  • Siyuan Gong
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

14 November 2024

Influenced by various factors such as the complex environment and high key layers in coal mines, hydraulic fracturing technology has gradually become the main means of controlling the hard roof strata to prevent and control rockburst in recent years,...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,198 Views
35 Pages

A New Approach to Designing Advance Stress Release Boreholes to Mitigate Rockburst Hazards in Deep Boring-Machine-Constructed Tunnels

  • Zhenkun Xie,
  • Shili Qiu,
  • Shaojun Li,
  • Yaxun Xiao and ,
  • Minzong Zheng and
  • Zhihao Kuang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

26 December 2024

The use of tunnel boring machines (TBMs) in deep hard rock tunnels disrupts the original stress equilibrium of the rock mass, often resulting in the aggregation and release of a large amount of elastic strain energy, and even leading to rockburst. Un...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,433 Views
18 Pages

6 November 2024

Rockburst, one of the leading types of disaster in mining and rock engineering causing serious injuries and the loss of property, frequently occurs, involving various features and complex evolutionary mechanisms. Compared to rockbursts occurring at m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,145 Views
19 Pages

In deep engineering, rockburst hazards frequently result in injuries, fatalities, and the destruction of contiguous structures. Due to the complex nature of rockbursts, predicting the severity of rockburst damage (intensity) without the aid of comput...

  • Article
  • Open Access
302 Views
27 Pages

16 October 2026

To investigate the influence of joint spatial orientation on the rockburst mechanism of deep roadways, this study employs a true triaxial rockburst testing system to conduct physical simulation experiments on three types of limestone specimens from Y...

(This article belongs to the Topic Mechanism, Prevention and Control of Rockburst in Underground Mines)
  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
5,331 Views
17 Pages

There have only been a limited number of analyses of soil–steel bridges under seismic and anthropogenic (rockburst) excitations. Rockbursts are phenomena similar to low-intensity natural earthquakes. They can be observed in Poland (Upper and Lo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,248 Views
15 Pages

Laboratory Study on Rockburst Control by Step Method in Deep Tunnel

  • Chao Ren,
  • Xiaoming Sun,
  • Dongqiao Liu and
  • Jinkun Yang

1 April 2025

In terms of rockburst control technology, it is generally believed that optimizing the section design and adopting the step method can effectively suppress the occurrence of rockburst, but there is no literature to explain the reasons for adopting th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Monitoring and Prevention of Dynamic Disasters in Deep Underground Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
577 Views
28 Pages

Experimental Study on Rockburst Failure Characteristics of Deeply Buried Jointed Roadway Surrounding Rock Under True Triaxial Dynamic Disturbance

  • Wenjun Hu,
  • Huiming Kang,
  • Zenghui Shang,
  • Kegang Li and ,
  • Zhiqiang Qiao and
  • Hao Chen
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

5 August 2026

To investigate the rockburst failure characteristics and underlying mechanisms of deep straight-wall arch roadways containing structural planes, deep-mined limestone was selected as the rock material. True triaxial rockburst experiments were conducte...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Process Safety and Intelligent Monitoring for Mining Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,949 Views
27 Pages

Experimental Investigation of Pre-Flawed Rocks under Dynamic Loading: Insights from Fracturing Characteristics and Energy Evolution

  • Guifeng Zhao,
  • Lei Zhang,
  • Bing Dai,
  • Yong Liu and ,
  • Zhijun Zhang and
  • Xinyao Luo
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

13 December 2022

Different fractures exist widely in rock mass and play a significant role in their deformation and strength properties. Crack rocks are often subjected to dynamic disturbances, which exist in many fields of geotechnical engineering practices. In this...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Experimental, Theoretical, Numerical and Big-Data-Based Investigations on Characterizations for Geomaterials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
349 Views
20 Pages

31 August 2026

Understanding the failure behavior of cylindrical-hole hard rocks is essential for rockburst prevention in deep underground engineering. In this study, fractal–statistical analysis was combined with true triaxial testing and discrete element mo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematics Applied in Rock Mechanics and Mining Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,717 Views
14 Pages

15 August 2022

The use of the new mining technology on the Third potash bed at the Starobinsk potash salt deposit is accompanied by the displacement of the undermined rocks. The displacement is accompanied by the foliation. The gas accumulates in the resulting foli...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fluid Flows in Geotechnical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,001 Views
15 Pages

21 March 2025

Coal seam gas drainage serves as an effective engineering measure to mitigate compound disasters of the rockburst and outburst in deep mining, and its efficacy is fundamentally governed by the permeability of coal around the gas drainage borehole. To...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,385 Views
12 Pages

16 March 2023

To further understand the changing pattern of the bottom structure’s ground pressure activity under the influence of faults, predicting the potential occurrence of geological hazards and rock blast problems to reduce the loss of resources is im...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research on Rock Mechanics and Backfilling Materials for Underground Mining)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
674 Views
20 Pages

29 December 2025

With the increasing depth of coal mining, thick-hard overlying strata (THOS) often induce dynamic disasters such as rockbursts, posing significant threats to mine safety. This study focuses on the application of directional hydraulic fracturing roof...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advances in Coal Mine Disaster Prevention Technology)
  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,525 Views
32 Pages

14 November 2022

Based on CiteSpace software, this paper reviews and analyzes the application articles of acoustic emission in coal from 2010 to 2020. In this paper, CiteSpace software visualizes 453 articles collected in the Web of Science core database. The coopera...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Natural Gas Hydrate Production Technology and Rock Mechanics in Petroleum Engineering)

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