4.7 Article

Predicting pillar stability for underground mine using Fisher discriminant analysis and SVM methods

Journal

TRANSACTIONS OF NONFERROUS METALS SOCIETY OF CHINA
Volume 21, Issue 12, Pages 2734-2743

Publisher

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S1003-6326(11)61117-5

Keywords

underground mine; pillar stability; Fisher discriminant analysis (FDA); support vector machines (SVMs); prediction

Funding

  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [50934006]
  2. National Basic Research Program of China [2010CB732004]
  3. Graduated Students' Research and Innovation Fund Project of Hunan Province of China [CX2011B119]

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The purpose of this study is to apply some statistical and soft computing methods such as Fisher discriminant analysis (FDA) and support vector machines (SVMs) methodology to the determination of pillar stability for underground mines selected from various coal and stone mines by using some index and mechanical properties, including the width, the height, the ratio of the pillar width to its height, the uniaxial compressive strength of the rock and pillar stress. The study includes four main stages: sampling, testing, modeling and assessment of the model performances. During the modeling stage, two pillar stability prediction models were investigated with FDA and SVMs methodology based on the statistical learning theory. After using 40 sets of measured data in various mines in the world for training and testing, the model was applied to other 6 data for validating the trained proposed models. The prediction results of SVMs were compared with those of FDA as well as the measured field values. The general performance of models developed in this study is close; however, the SVMs exhibit the best performance considering the performance index with the correct classification rate P(rs) by re-substitution method and P(cv) by cross validation method. The results show that the SVMs approach has the potential to be a reliable and practical tool for determination of pillar stability for underground mines.

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