State-of-the-art review of machine learning and optimization algorithms applications in environmental effects of blasting

J Zhou, Y Zhang, Y Qiu - Artificial Intelligence Review, 2024 - Springer
The technological difficulties related with blasting operations have become increasingly
significant. It is crucial to give due consideration to the evaluation of rock fragmentation and …

[HTML][HTML] Interpretable modeling of metallurgical responses for an industrial coal column flotation circuit by XGBoost and SHAP-A “conscious-lab” development

SC Chelgani, H Nasiri, M Alidokht - International Journal of Mining Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Surprisingly, no investigation has been explored relationships between operating variables
and metallurgical responses of coal column flotation (CF) circuits based on industrial …

Optimal design and feature selection by genetic algorithm for emotional artificial neural network (EANN) in rainfall-runoff modeling

A Molajou, V Nourani, A Afshar, M Khosravi… - Water Resources …, 2021 - Springer
Rainfall-runoff (rr) modeling at different time scales is considered as a significant issue in
hydro-environmental planning. As a first hydrological implementation, for one-time-ahead rr …

[HTML][HTML] Development of ensemble learning models to evaluate the strength of coal-grout materials

Y Sun, G Li, N Zhang, Q Chang, J Xu… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
In the loose and fractured coal seam with particularly low uniaxial compressive strength
(UCS), driving a roadway is extremely difficult as roof falling and wall spalling occur …

Application of reliability-based back-propagation causality-weighted neural networks to estimate air-overpressure due to mine blasting

S Hosseini, R Poormirzaee, M Hajihassani - Engineering Applications of …, 2022 - Elsevier
In the present study, the air-overpressure (AOp) due to mine blasting is predicted using an
uncertainty intelligence method based on the Z-number reliability and fuzzy cognitive map …

[HTML][HTML] Machine learning-based constitutive models for cement-grouted coal specimens under shearing

G Li, Y Sun, C Qi - International Journal of Mining Science and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Cement-based grouting has been widely used in mining engineering; its constitutive law has
not been comprehensively studied. In this study, a novel constitutive law of cement-grouted …

Performance of hybrid SCA-RF and HHO-RF models for predicting backbreak in open-pit mine blasting operations

J Zhou, Y Dai, M Khandelwal, M Monjezi, Z Yu… - Natural Resources …, 2021 - Springer
Backbreak is an adverse phenomenon in blasting operation, which can cause, among
others, mine walls instability, falling down of machinery, drilling efficiency reduction and …

Horizontal in situ stresses prediction using a CNN-BiLSTM-attention hybrid neural network

T Ma, G Xiang, Y Shi, Y Liu - … and Geophysics for Geo-Energy and Geo …, 2022 - Springer
Horizontal in situ stress prediction plays an important role in petroleum exploration, such as
wellbore stability analysis and hydraulic fracturing design. However, owing to the …

Advanced analytics for rock blasting and explosives engineering in mining

JLV Mariz, A Soofastaei - … Leverage Advanced Analytics in Mining Industry …, 2022 - Springer
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 …

Prediction of blasting induced air-overpressure using a radial basis function network with an additional hidden layer

R Zhang, Y Li, Y Gui, J Zhou - Applied Soft Computing, 2022 - Elsevier
Blasting operations are the most conventional and frequently used rock breakage approach
in the field of Civil and Mining Engineering. However, the side effects induced by blasting …