Abstract: Aiming at the problem of coal pillar instability in the fully mechanized mining face section of hard roof and floor, taking the section coal pillar of the track haulage roadway in the 1016 working face of a certain mine in Xinjiang as the engineering background, through theoretical analysis, numerical simulation and field test research methods. The movement law of overlying strata in the working face was analyzed. The causes of energy accumulation in the coal pillar under the condition of hard roof and floor were proposed. The function relationship between the elastic strain energy density in the coal pillar and the first and third principal stresses was studied. According to the theory of elasticity, the stress and energy distribution laws in the coal pillar under different stress concentration coefficients were obtained. The research shows that after the upper working face is mined, the thick and hard basic roof will form a "long cantilever beam" structure, causing the load in the coal pillar to increase. Due to the significant difference in strength between the coal mass and the roof and floor, the energy input from the outside into the "roof-coal pillar-floor" system mainly accumulates in the coal pillar in the form of elastic strain energy. The elastic strain energy at any position in the section coal pillar can be roughly regarded as a positive correlation with the first and third principal stresses. The junction of the elastic and plastic zones in the coal pillar and the surrounding area are the main parts where the elastic strain energy is accumulated, while the accumulation degree of elastic strain energy in the broken zone of the coal body is relatively small. The deterioration of the stress environment of the coal pillar after the roadway is excavated, the release of the accumulated energy in the coal pillar is the main reasons for the deformation and failure of the coal pillar. The prevention and control technology of "intensive drilling in the roof + coal pillar drilling pressure relief + strengthening support" was proposed, and the field application effect was obvious.