Based on the phenomenon of serious tensile-shear failure of bolts and cables, domestic and foreign scholars’ research on the mechanical properties of bolts and cables has gradually changed from pure tensile to tensile-shear performance. To reduce the long-term bolt and cable breakage accidents in deep soft rock tunnels in coal mines, we independently developed a new type of support material—anchor cable with C-shaped tube and a corresponding tensile-shear test system. The system parameters are set through theoretical derivation, and the three main structures of the test system are designed with ANSYS: shear box, vertical loading reaction frame, and horizontal loading reaction frame. The numerical simulation results show that when the thickness of the shear box steel plate is 20 mm, the maximum strain is about 2.7‰. When the diameters of the vertical column and the horizontal bar are 220 mm and 80 mm, respectively, the maximum strains of the column and the horizontal bar are about 0.17‰ and 0.04‰, respectively. The strength and deformation of the three main structures meet the design requirements. The developed test system was tested on-site. The test results show that the system can perform tensile test and two different modes of the double shear test. The main structure has no obvious deformation during the test, meeting the design requirements. In addition, the rational design of the shear box eliminates the error caused by the shear block. The results show that the shear resistance of anchor cable with C-shaped tube is better than that of pure anchor cables. The research results can provide a reference for developing other similar test systems.

In view of the complex asymmetric deformation characteristics of inclined coal seam roadways and the tensed shear failure of anchor cable supports, the asymmetric support scheme of an anchor cable with a C-shaped tube is proposed. In order to study its supporting effect on an inclined coal seam roadway, this paper first explores the difference in shear performance between an anchor cable with a C-shaped tube and an anchor cable through double shear tests. Then, based on the asymmetric deformation characteristics of an inclined coal seam roadway in the Pangpangta Mine, a numerical simulation is used to study the asymmetric support effect of an anchor cable with a C-shaped tube in an inclined coal seam roadway. The results of the double shear test show that the anchor cable with the C-shaped tube has stronger resistance to shear load than that of the anchor cable. Through the results of the numerical simulation, the original stress field distribution on both sides of the roadway was found to be uneven due to the influence of the coal seam dip angle, and after the excavation of the inclined coal seam roadway, the displacement and plastic zone distribution on both sides showed obvious asymmetric characteristics. Compared with the symmetric support, the asymmetric support can obviously alleviate the asymmetric deformation characteristics of the two sides and effectively control the deformation and plastic failure zone of the roadway. The anchor cable with the C-shaped tube has better resistance to shear deformation than that of the anchor cable. The anchor cable with the C-shaped tube can reduce the deformation and plastic area of the roadway more effectively.