Some Remarks on Impact of Mining Based on an Example of Building Deformation and Damage Caused by Mining in Conditions of Upper Silesian Coal Basin

• Published in: Pure and applied geophysics 2019-06, Vol.176 (6), p.2595-2605
• Main Author: Strzałkowski, Piotr
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Area; Building damage; Buildings; Coal; Coal mining; Deformation; Deformation analysis; Deformation mechanisms; Earth and Environmental Science; Earth Sciences; Exploitation; Geophysics/Geodesy; Impact damage; Mining; Rock masses; Tremors
• ISSN: 0033-4553; 1420-9136
• DOI: 10.1007/s00024-019-02127-1

An intense mining exploitation has been conducted below a highly urbanised area of Upper Silesian Coal Basin for over 100 years. Its influence on the surface and buildings located in the area constituted a subject of many studies, the result of which helped in creating methods allowing to predict deformations and assessing the extent of their impact on buildings. However, there is a number of issues linked with assessment of mining influence on terrain surface deformation, reliable analyses should be carried out individually in respect to particular mining and geological conditions. All calculation results concerning deformations of the mining area, as well as rock mass tremors’ occurrence, can be verified based on measurements results. This paper presents an analysis of exploitation’s impact on a selected structure. Conclusions about the manner of performing the assessment of exploitation’s impact on buildings were based on obtained results.