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Roof fall is one of the serious hazards associated with underground coal mining. Roof fall can cause fatal and non-fatal injuries on miners, stoppages in mining operations and equipment breakdowns. Therefore, accurate prediction of roof fall rate is very important in controlling and eliminating of related problems. In this study, the fuzzy logic was applied to predict roof fall rate in coal mines. The predictive fuzzy model was implemented on fuzzy logic toolbox of MATLAB® using Mamdani algorithm and was developed based on experts’ knowledge and also a database including 109 datasets of roof performance from US coal mines. 22 datasets of this database were used to assess the performance of this fuzzy model. The comparison between obtained results from model and actual roof fall rate showed that the fuzzy model can predict roof fall rate very well.
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The authors would like to thank Mrs. Ifa Mahboobi for her kind help during the preparation of manuscript and the anonymous reviewers for their valuable and constructive comments.
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Ghasemi, E., Ataei, M. Application of fuzzy logic for predicting roof fall rate in coal mines. Neural Comput & Applic 22 (Suppl 1), 311–321 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-012-0819-3
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