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Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) are a cuttingedge excavating equipment, but are barely applied in underground coal mines. For TBM excavation projects involving the Zhangji coal mine, the surrounding rock properties, stress field, cross section geometry, as well as the excavationinduced stress path of TBMexcavated coal mine roadways are different from those of traditional tunnels or roadways.