Predicting tunnel boring machine (TBM) performance is a crucial issue for the
accomplishment of a mechanical tunnel project, excavating via full face tunneling machine …

Mechanical rock excavation projects require uniaxial compressive strength (UCS) and static
modulus of elasticity (E) of the intact rock material. High-quality core specimens of proper …

An ideally performed blasting operation enormously influences the mining overall cost. This
aim can be achieved by proper prediction and attenuation of flyrock and backbreak. Poor …

Shear strength is one of the most important features in engineering design of geotechnical
structures such as embankments, earth dams, tunnels and foundations. Shear strength …

Shear strength parameters such as cohesion are the most significant rock parameters which
can be utilized for initial design of some geotechnical engineering applications. In this study …

Prediction of rock fragmentation is essential for optimizing blasting operation. Fragmentation
depends on many parameters such as rock mass properties, blast geometry and explosive …

Flyrock arising from blasting operations is one of the crucial and complex problems in
mining industry and its prediction plays an important role in the minimization of related …

Rocks are natural geo-materials, whose properties are affected by many spatially-varying
factors, such as the properties of their parent materials, weathering processes, and …

Estimation of shear strength parameters, which are generally known as the cohesion and
internal friction angle (c and φ) in the Mohr–Coulomb (M–C) strength criterion, plays an …

The purpose of this study is the application of meta-heuristic algorithms and fuzzy logic in
the optimization and clustering to predict the sawability of dimension stone. Survey and …