Drilling and blasting remain the preferred technique used for rock mass breaking in mining
and construction projects compared to other methods from an economic and productivity …

Blasting is an important mining operation that usually produce several damaging
consequences. Adverse rock fragmentation due to bench blasting is one of them. Hence …

A new model for prediction of rock fragmentation by blasting is presented based upon the
basic concepts of rock engineering systems (RES). The newly proposed approach involves …

Blasting is a fundamental operation in the mining of metal and non-metal mine sites. There
is a historical story of using explosive material in both underground and surface mines sites …

Aiming at the problems of the traditional method of assessing distribution of particle size in
bench blasting, a support vector machines (SVMs) regression methodology was used to …

While empirical rock fragmentation models are easy to parameterize for blast design, they
are usually prone to errors, resulting in less accurate fragment size prediction. Among other …

Multivariate analysis procedures and a neural network methodology are used to predict
mean particle size resulting from rock blast fragmentation. A blast data base developed in a …

Several in-situ rock mass properties and blasthole parameters can affect the rock
fragmentation. Because of the complexity of the variables affecting the fragmentation results …

Rock blast production rate (BPR) is one of the most crucial factors in the evaluation of mine
project's performance. In order to improve the production of a limestone mine, the blast …

Prediction of ground vibration is of great importance in mitigation of blast-induced adverse
effects. In this research, an innovative multivariate analysis procedure for prediction of blast …