Abstract: In order to study the influence of bedding on the failure form of raw coal under load, uniaxial fracturing experiments and triaxial fracturing experiments under the same confining pressure and different gas pressures were carried out on parallel bedding coal samples and vertical bedding coal samples. The results show that the compressive strength of parallel bedding coal samples is slightly lower than that of vertical bedding coal samples, but the peak strain of the latter is 2.33 times that of the former. As the gas pressure increases, the peak stress of the vertical bedding coal sample increases first and then decreases, with a change of 26.62%. The peak stress of the parallel bedding coal sample first decreases, then increases and then decreases, the range of change is 35.14%. During uniaxial fracturing and triaxial fracturing, the failure of the parallel bedding coal sample is the overall longitudinal shear failure, and the coal sample splits into several large pieces along the longitudinal direction, the failure of the vertical bedding coal sample is the local transverse tension failure. The upper half of the coal sample was severely damaged, and the lower half remained basically intact. Compared with uniaxial fracturing, the volume of the intact part of the vertical bedding coal sample is increased by about 73% when the vertical bedding coal sample is fractured, and the angle variation range of the parallel bedding coal sample is about 42%.