Abstract:Coal mine ventilation system is the lifeblood of safety production system in coal enterprises. The coal mine ventilation system was studied from the perspective of people, machine, environment, and management based on complex system brittleness theory combining the safety problems from the ventilation system, which includes participant subsystem, facilities subsystem, environment subsystem, and management subsystem. Furthermore, brittleness simulation model of coal mine ventilation system was constructed to empirically analyze its process of brittleness risk using the statistical data from coal mines, and then system dynamic interference experiment was designed to explore the relationship between coal output and risk level of system brittleness. The results show that the brittle evolution of the management subsystem is the fastest, which is more likely to give rise to the collapse of the whole system. Moreover, the higher the proportion of production beyond capacity, the higher the growth rate of the system brittleness, and the earlier the collapse of the system. Finally, management control measures were put forward.