Determination of the possibility of rock burst in a coal seam

Resumo

The article presents an algorithm for computing a quantity that serves as a criterion for the possibility of rock burst in a coal seam.We propose to seek this quantity in the two steps: At the first step, an inverse problem is solved to find the necessary quantities; while at the second step, we solve a boundary value problem for the biharmonic equation. The inverse problem can be solved by minimizing an objective functional that is shown to be strongly convex.