The invention discloses a method for determining an instable
critical thickness of a horizontal ore pillar in a multi-level simultaneous mining mode. The method comprises the following steps: a physical
mechanics determination step of ore rock
mass, namely intercepting one part of pillar body of a to-be-mined horizontal ore pillar as a sample, and determining
volume density rho, a Poisson's ratiou, an
ultimate tensile strength sigmaT of the sample; a horizontal ore pillar measurement step, namely measuring a length a of an extended ore body direction and a length b of a vertical ore body direction of the to-be-mined horizontal ore pillar, and preliminarily determining a minimal retained vertical thickness h of the horizontal ore pillar during mining; a maximum
tension stress calculation step, namely calculating maximum
tension stress sigma(tmax) stressed by the horizontal ore pillar; and an instable
critical thickness determination step, namely taking the minimal retained vertical thickness h of the horizontal ore pillar as the instable
critical thickness when sigma(tmax) is equal to [sigma(T)]. According to the method disclosed by the invention, a determination
mechanics model ofthe critical thickness of the horizontal ore pillar is established based on a Vlasov thick-plate theory, a theoretical basis is provided for accurately determining the critical thickness of the horizontal ore pillar in time for the mine, safety
recovery of the horizontal ore pillar is improved, and the
utilization rate of ore resources is increased.