Mechanical Evolution Mechanism of Coal and Gas Outburst
1 Introduction. Coal and gas outburst is one of the main disasters associated with deep coal mines (Chen and Cheng 2015; Zhou et al. 2017 ). When a coal and gas outburst occurs, large quantities of coal and gas are ejected into the space around the mining face in a few or tens of seconds (Lama and Bodziony 1998; Tang et al. 2016 ).