In order to analyze the mutual influence of different layers stresses in the progress of every excavation step and take advantage of the former rock burst situation to predict the rock burst intensity of later layer

numerical calculation and in-site supervision measure are adopted to conduct a series of calculations and analysis. The results show as follows. When horizontal stress and vertical stresses of the initial stress field are equal

the stresses of vault

corner and the floor increase significantly at early period

and smaller increase later

gradually stabilized with the excavation progress. If the former layer rock burst appears

the vault

corner and floor of the later layer rock burst appear too. Cavern excavation has greater risk of rock burst at early period and would be smaller later. When the initial stress field dominated by the horizontal stress

with the ongoing excavation steps

the stress of the vault

corner and the floor have no large increase at early period

but later period changed rapidly. The greater the lateral pressure coefficient is

the greater the rock burst risk of the later layer is in case that the former layer rock burst appears. Finally

it is proved that the correctness of analysis results by comparison with the actual excavation. The results provide a new idea to predict underground cavern stability of later excavation layer by using the interaction among the characteristics of every layer