China's energy structure mainly depends on coal resources, which will still play the dominant role in economic development in the future. With the mining depth increasing, the deep roadway construction will be exposed to a complex stress environment, increasing the difficulty of roof control and further hindering the mining activities. The problem of deep roadway excavation causing significant fracture scope of surrounding rock in and outside the anchorage zone has attracted much attention. For

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... the large crack scope existing in the roadway roof of deep underground openings, this paper focuses on the exploration of upgrading the support system. In order to solve this problem, we investigated the zone damage of the roadway roof with the discrete element model using the UDEC trigon method and damage quantified evaluation with data analysis. The long anchorage and zone linkage support technology was proposed based on the damage control effect of varying lengths of supporting bolts. The purpose of extending the length of bolts is to link the more severely damaged rock mass in the shallow part to the minimum damaged part in the deep place, aiming to form the thick anchor zone to mobilize the rock mass in each zone to participate and bear the load together. Furthermore, the onsite application of long anchorage and zone linkage technology gained good control effects in the selected typical roadway with different geological conditions. The results show obvious resistance in cross-section shrinkage, integrity maintenance, and minimization of crack scope in the roadway roof. The promotion of long anchorage zone linkage technology can help the mine with similar situations uplift the efficiency of working and guarantee the safety of miners during mine service life in the deep coal roadway.