A new method for predicting the trend of displacement evolution of surrounding rock was presented in this paper. According to the nonlinear characteristics of displacement time series of underground engineering surrounding rock, based on phase space reconstruction theory and the powerful nonlinear mapping ability of support vector machines, the information offered by the time series datum sets was fully exploited and the non-linearity of the displacement evolution system of surrounding rock was well described.The example suggests that the methods based on phase space reconstruction and modified v-SVR algorithm are very accurate, and the study can help to build the displacement forecast system to analyze the stability of underground engineering surrounding rock.