To optimize the excavation of rock using underground blasting techniques,a reliable and simplified approach for modeling rock fragmentation is desired.This paper presents a multistep experimentalnumerical methodology ...
supported by the National Science Foundation(Grant No.CMMI-1901582);supported by the Nuclear Research and Development Program of the National Research Foundation of Korea(Grant No.2024-M2E3A2007963);the Korea Electric Power Corporation(Grant No.R22XO05-05).
Degradation of rock mass produced by rock blasting,stress relief,and other causes is an important factor in the assessment of rock strength.Quantified as a disturbance factor,such degradation varies depending on blast...
supported by Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province,China(Grant No.BK20220975);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.51874350 and 41807259).
Surface ground motion produced by underground blasts is significantly influenced by near-surface geological conditions.However,near-surface low-propagation velocity layers were always ignored in past analyses of groun...
The blast-induced ground vibrations can be significantly controlled by varying the location and orien-tation of point of interest from blast site.The blast waves generated due to individual holes get super-imposed and...
Recently,Garai et al.(2022)published a paper on the impact of orientation of blast initiation on ground vibrations.However,some of the claims are not supported by the results of the given tests.In Fig.1(see Fig.8 in G...
The paper reviews the development of prediction formulas for the fragmentation from bench blasting.Much attention has been paid to the Kuz-Ram model,its development and errors,and the mean vs.median misunderstanding.T...
supported by the Land and Liveability National Innovation Challenge under L2 NIC Award No. L2NICCFP1-2013-1
Blasting has been widely used in mining and construction industries for rock breaking.This paper presents the results of a series of field tests conducted to investigate the ground wave propagation through mixed geolo...
The blast-induced ground vibration prediction using scaled distance regression analysis is one of the most popular methods employed by engineers for many decades. It uses the maximum charge per delay and distance of m...
Although a large number of previous researches have significantly contributed to the understanding of the quasi-static mechanical behavior of cemented tailings backfill,an evolutive porous medium used in underground m...
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The blasting operation plays a pivotal role in the overall economics of opencast mines.The blasting subsystem affects all the other associated sub-systems,i.e.loading,transport,crushing and milling operations.Fragment...