RESEARCH ARTICLE


Sensitivity Analysis and 3D-displacement Inversion of Rock Parameters for High Steep Slope in Open-pit Mining



C.B. Zhou, R. He, N. Jiang*, S.W. Lu
Engineering Research Center of Rock-Soil & Excavation and Protection of Ministry of Education, Faculty of Engineering, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, 430074, China
388 Lumo Rd, Wuhan, 430074, China


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Abstract

Due to the complexity of multiple rocks and multiple parameters circumstance, various parameters are often reduced to only one parameter empirically to generalize geological conditions, ignoring the really influential parameters. A developed method was presented as a complement to 3D displacement inversion to obtain the relative important parameters under complex conditions with limited computational work. Furthermore, this method was applied to a high steep slope in open-pit mining to investigate field applicability of the developed system. Back analysis was conducted in the reality of the east open-pit working area of Daye Iron Mine and propositional steps were presented for parameters solving in complex circumstance. Firstly, multi-factor and single-factor sensitivity analysis were carried out to classify rock mass and mechanical parameters respectively according to the extent of their effects on deformations. Secondly, based on the results, main influence factors were selected as inversion parameters and taken into a 3D calculating model to get the displacement field and stress field, all of which would be the artificial network training samples together with inversion parameters. Thirdly, taking the real deformations as input for the trained back propagation (BP) neural network, the real material mechanical parameters could be obtained. Finally, the results of trained neural network have been confirmed by field monitoring data and provide a reference to obtain the matter parameters in complicated environment for other similar projects.

Keywords: Back analysis, BP neural network, High steep slope, Rock mechanical parameters, Sensitivity analysis.