Recent Trends in Multi-Field Coupling Theory and Technology for Deep Coal Mining and Rock Mechanics
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Civil Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 October 2025 | Viewed by 378
Special Issue Editors
Interests: coal mining; geothermal energy development; rock mechanics; high-temperature and high-pressure rock mechanics; multi-field coupling theory in mining; rock strata and mining disaster control
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Deep mining has become an inevitable trend for humanity in order to acquire underground mineral resources. Deep mining faces complex multi-field coupling environments and geological conditions, making traditional rock mechanics theories inadequate to meet the demands of deep mining. In recent years, emerging theories and technologies, such as deep coal and geothermal co-mining, fluidized mining, and underground gasification, have driven the continuous development of theories and technologies for safe and efficient mining. In this Special Issue, we will focus on the multi-field coupling theory of deep coal mining or rock mechanics, particularly on new theories, technologies, and innovative mining methods. Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Mechanical properties of deep coal/rock masses and multi-field coupling processes;
- Experimental and numerical simulation techniques for multi-field coupling in deep rock masses;
- Theories and technological innovations in deep mineral resource extraction;
- Coordinated extraction of deep coal and geothermal resources;
- Fluidized mining of solid mineral resources;
- Theories and techniques for underground gasification of deep coal;
- Disaster prevention and control in deep mining.
Dr. Hongwei Zhang
Prof. Dr. Qian Yin
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- deep coal mining
- rock mechanics
- multiphysics
- new theory and technology
- disaster control
- mining method
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