China Safety Science Journal ›› 2025, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (6): 209-215.doi: 10.16265/j.cnki.issn1003-3033.2025.06.1174

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Influence of roadway bifurcation angle and obstacles on evacuation efficiency of miners

SI Junhong1(), YU Yuejie1, LI Lin2, FAN Ruoting1   

  1. 1 School of Emergency Technology and Management, North China Institute of Science and Technology, Langfang Hebei 065201, China
    2 College of Safety Science and Engineering, Liaoning Technical University, Fuxin Liaoning 123000, China
  • Received:2025-02-10 Revised:2025-04-12 Online:2025-06-28 Published:2025-07-30

Abstract:

To improve the emergency evacuation ability of miners, simulation models of roadway bifurcation angles (45, 60, 90, 135, 180°) were constructed for horizontal roadway and inclined roadway, respectively. Based on social force theory, the changing characteristics and main forces of roadway bifurcation angles with evacuation time were analyzed, and a relationship model between roadway bifurcation angles and evacuation parameters was established. The orthogonal test was used to investigate the influence of the length, width and position of obstacles on the evacuation efficiency of miners. The results showed that the evacuation process of roadway could be divided into queue passage stage, competitive balance stage and social force effect stage, and the evacuation time decreased with the increase of roadway bifurcation angle, which followed with the cubic polynomial relationship. The optimum bifurcation angle was determined to be 135°. The order of the influence of obstacles on evacuation efficiency is the width of the obstacle> the length of the obstacle > the position of the obstacle, and the width of the obstacle has an exponential relationship with the evacuation time. Taking the roadway bifurcation angle, slope and obstacle width as the static influence coefficients, the calculation shows that under the optimal bifurcation angle, the equivalent length of the roadway is significantly affected by the obstacle width when the obstacle width is greater than 2 m.

Key words: roadway bifurcation angle, obstacle, evacuation efficiency, emergency evacuation, social forces

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