Different artificial intelligence (AI) methods have been applied to various aspects of rock
mechanics, but the fact that none of these methods have been used as a standard implies …

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 …

The main purpose of blasting operation is to produce desired and optimum mean size rock
fragments. Smaller or fine fragments cause the loss of ore during loading and transportation …

In recent years, compared with the traditional portland cement, environmentally friendly
geopolymers have gained more attention as construction materials. This paper considered …

In blasting operation, the aim is to achieve proper fragmentation and to avoid undesirable
events such as backbreak. Therefore, predicting rock fragmentation and backbreak is very …

Desert sands in Iran, which usually contain small amounts of silt and sulfate, do not have
significant strength, and thus, are not suitable for foundations or road construction. This …

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 …

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 …

The impact-induced rock mass fragmentation in a rockfall is analyzed by comparing the in
situ block size distribution (IBSD) of the rock mass detached from the cliff face and the …