Study on the Deformation Forecasting for the Tunnel Surrounding Rock Using the Neural Network

The non-pillar sublevel caving method is used in Iron Mine in Banshi. In the mining area, there are many folds and faults, the inclination of ore body changes greatly, and ore and rock are fragmentized. The tunnel often collapsed and the surrounding rock deformation was getting large during the construction stage. Using the data of tunnel surrounding rock deformation, we adopt the neural network method to set up the mapping relation between the tunnel surrounding rock deformation and the project factors, including tunnel deepness, tunnel dimension, measuring time and surrounding rock quality. The analyzing results show that the maximum error between the forecast and the testing data is 13%, which indicates that this method is useful and feasible to the mining engineering. Key words: rock pressure; measure, deformation of the tunnel surrounding rock; neural network; data normalization; mapping