Application of seismic stress inversion to stress field mapping in deep mines

地质力学矿山设计的主要工具是数值应力分析程序。使用这些工具，可以检查可选布局和提取序列的稳定性。这些稳定性分析最重要的输入参数是岩体强度和地应力场的定义。在量化岩石强度的方法方面取得了重大进展，然而，对应力场的表征却鲜有人关注。由于应力测量程序的高成本和解释结果的困难，标准做法是将应力定义为深度的线性函数，通常由区域测量数据库汇编而成。尽管有明显偏离这一假设的证据，但仍使用这一方法。这种简化的方法很少被承认，但它严重破坏了应力分析结果的可靠性。这在深部、高应力和地震活跃的矿井中尤其成问题，在这些矿井中，设计不确定性的后果更大，而且直接应力测量存在问题。

The primary tools used for geomechanical mine design are numerical stress analysis codes. Using these tools, the stability of alternative layout and extraction sequences can be examined. The most important input parameters for these stability analyses are rock mass strength and a definition of the in situ stress field. Advances in methods of quantifying rock mass strength have been significant; however, little attention has been paid to characterizing the stress field. Due to the high cost of stress measurement programs and the difficulties in interpreting results, standard practice is to define stresses as linear functions of depth, typically compiled from regional databases of measurements. This approach is used despite evidence of significant departures from this assumption. This simplified approach is seldom recognized as such, yet it seriously undermines the reliability of the stress analysis results. It is particularly problematic in deep, high stress, and seismically active mines, in which the consequences of design uncertainties are greater, and where direct stress measurement is problematic.