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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Built Environ.

Sec. Geotechnical Engineering

Volume 11 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fbuil.2025.1699662

This article is part of the Research TopicGeological Hazards in Deep Underground Engineering: Mechanism, Monitoring, Warning, and ControlView all 10 articles

Research on a Coal-Rock Burst Risk Evaluation Model Based on Particle Swarm Optimized BP Neural Network

Provisionally accepted
Yanping  MiaoYanping Miao1Chiheng  CaiChiheng Cai2Xuhe  ZhengXuhe Zheng1Changyue  LiuChangyue Liu1Jianxi  RenJianxi Ren2*BaoJun  XuBaoJun Xu1Ke  WangKe Wang2Kun  ZhangKun Zhang2Pengfei  ZhangPengfei Zhang2Jianqiang  YuanJianqiang Yuan1
  • 1Shenmu Hongliulin Mining Co., Ltd., Shaanxi Coal Group Shenmu 719300, China, China
  • 2Xi'an University of Science and Technology, Xi'an, China

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Coal-rock dynamic disasters, especially rock bursts, pose serious threats to mining safety and production efficiency in deep mining operations. To improve the accuracy and intelligence of coal-rock burst risk assessment, this paper proposes a BP neural network model optimized by Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO). The model integrates coal seam mechanical parameters, mining conditions, and surrounding rock properties as input indicators to construct a comprehensive evaluation system. PSO is applied to optimize the initial weights and thresholds of the BP neural network to avoid local minima and improve convergence speed and prediction accuracy. The optimized model is trained using field monitoring and testing data. Comparative experiments demonstrate that the PSO-BP model exhibits higher prediction accuracy and better generalization ability compared to the traditional BP network. The results indicate that this method can effectively evaluate the risk of coal-rock burst and provides technical support for early warning and disaster prevention in coal mines.

Keywords: Rock burst risk, BP neural network (BP), particle swarm optimization (PSO), Risk evaluation, Coal mine safety

Received: 05 Sep 2025; Accepted: 26 Sep 2025.

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* Correspondence: Jianxi Ren, rjx1019@126.com

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