“…Additionally, temperature significantly influenced the cement hardening process (Iesaka et al, 2004;Termkhajornkit and Barbarulo, 2012;Wang, 2022). Gypsum serves as a widely employed gas-hardening cementing agent in similar material experiments, possessing lower strength, lower cost, and a faster hardening process, making it potentially more suitable for simulating low-strength and brittle materials (Misnikov, 2018;Lesovik et al, 2020;Shi et al, 2022). However, pure gypsum is suitable for simulating linear elastic materials, the mechanical properties of overlying strata in coal seams often exhibit nonlinearity with significant deformations (Mou et al, 2020).…”