Search Documents

Search Again

Search Again

Refine Search

Publication Date
Clear

Refine Search

Publication Date
Clear
Organization
Organization
  • ISEE
    MS Initiation, a Possible Risk in Blasting Tall Structure

    By Bob de Raadt

    After a review of the general principles for blasting stacks, the stagnations of two stack demolitions are investigated. The author concludes and demonstrates that MS-delay blasting can be risky under

    Jan 1, 1982

  • ISEE
    Journal: 100 Years / The Engineering And Mining Journal New York August 10, 1907 Ground Breaking In The Joplin District Q786 Holes Are Drilled With Air Drills And Squibbed Before Charging. About 1 Pound Of Dynamite Is Required Per Ton Of Rock Broken

    By Doss Brittain

    The term ground breaking is taken to include the process of so loosening the ground as to enable it to be readily loaded into buckets or cars and hoisted from the shaft or drift. In the Joplin distric

    Jan 1, 2008

  • ISEE
    Monitoring of Dynamic Borehole Pressures

    By B. Papilon

    Dynamic pressures during blasting can affect performances of both electronic and non-electronic detonators. Boreholes can develop tremendous amount of pressures during blasting. The effect of such ele

    Jan 1, 2013

  • ISEE
    Close Proximity Blasting at the University of Georgia

    By Mick Fritz, Gregory Poole

    Construction blasting is always challenging when in close proximity to existing structures, but when you are next to a landmark like Sanford Stadium at the University of Georgia it can get intense. Bl

    Jan 1, 2011

  • ISEE
    SmokeFCM: Segmentation of Quarry Blast Smoke Plumes using Self-Adaptive Weighted Fuzzy C-Means

    By E. Lentilucci, A. Dey, X. Liu, A. Datta, S. Ghosh

    The segmentation of quarry blast smoke plumes is a crucial research area that has the potential to enhance safety, environmental monitoring, object detection, and regulatory compliance in the mining i

    Jan 1, 2024

  • ISEE
    2000 Blasting in the New Millennium - The Blasting Log An Essential Witness of Professional Blasting Part II

    By Steve Dillingham

    PHYSICAL BLAST DATA Pattern Description All measurements related to the description of the physical blast pattern must be made with the mind-set that it has to tell a powerful factual story enabling a

    Jan 1, 2002

  • ISEE
    Perimeter Blasting with the ANFO-Spoon Technique

    By Larry Ng, Keith McDonald

    The benefits of controlled blasting techniques have gained increasing recognition by the mining industry in recent years. The utilization of an effective controlled blasting programme can result in a

    Jan 1, 1994

  • ISEE
    The Effects of Run-up on an Explosively Formed Projectile

    By Jason Baird, Joshua Hoffman, Phillip Mulligan

    The purpose of this report is to address the method of reducing the overall explosive weight of Explosively Formed Projectiles (EFPs) while still achieving satisfactory performance. This reduction is

    Jan 1, 2010

  • ISEE
    Excavation of a Tunnel to Reach a Large Underground Cavern Roof Fall

    By H. S. Venkatesh R. Balachander, G. C. Naveen

    During the construction of a 1020 MW underground hydroelectric project in Bhutan a huge rock fall took place in the Downstream Surge Chamber (DSC) during March 2016. The total quantity of rock in the

    Jan 1, 2019

  • ISEE
    Study of Blast Over-pressure from Intentional MEC Detonations Using Double Sandbag Mitigation

    By Daniel Haines, Benjamin Konshak, Michelle Crull

    American Technologies Incorporated Group (ATI) is the prime contractor with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Huntsville Center (CEHNC) in the Honolulu District for the removal of munitions and explosives

    Jan 1, 2008

  • ISEE
    Drone Technology Utilization to Increase Safety and Support Analysis for Blasting Process

    By Ery Wardhana, Stefanus Jagad, Relinda Sanistya, Hasucita Tausi, Rido Situmorang

    The blasting process is one of the most high-risk activities in mining operations. Shotfirers and blasting crews face hazards from slope failure, toxic gas and fumes, or unstable ground condition ever

    Feb 6, 2023

  • ISEE
    Save the Plant

    By James Camp

    "During the 1950's a cement plant was rebuilt along a Missouri River bluff. The escarpmentwas composed of inter_bedded shale and limestone, typical to western Missouri. All of theraw materials needed

    Jan 1, 1993

  • ISEE
    Blasting-Concern for Neighbors and Operators

    By Kris Shukla

    Noise and vibration produced by blasting generate curiosity and concern from neighbors. Experiments conducted in Sweden, Canada and U.S.A. have established that fine cracks in the plaster--the weakest

    Jan 1, 1978

  • ISEE
    Journal: The Shale Gas Revolution The Technology that made it Possible

    By David Leidel

    A revolution in hydrocarbon well completions within the last thirty years has enabled drillers to tap the resources of known gas plays in an economically viable manner and deliver to market natural ga

    Jan 1, 2014

  • ISEE
    Analysis of Environmental Effects Induced by Cautious Blasting During the Excavation of Istanbul Subway Construction

    By Ali Kahriman, Abdulkadir Karadogan, Alper Celtikci, Ahmet Varol, Ertugrul Kaya, Turgay Ozat

    This paper presents analysis of environmental effects induced by cautious blasting during the construction of the Istanbul Subway 4 Levent - Ayazaga Darulsafaka Metro Tunnel Project carried out by the

    Jan 1, 2011

  • ISEE
    Journal: Vibration Control Through Better Predictions

    By Keith Best

    It has been said that when a person does something right no one remembers but when they do something wrong no one forgets. This statement, when applied to the explosives industry, has never been truer

    Jan 1, 2008

  • ISEE
    MINIMIZING RISK IN URBAN QUARRIES (Two Case Studies)

    By James Goldberg, Sally Zadra, Wiliam Reisz

    Early recognition and risk assessment is critical to sustaining a safe and productive blasting operation. While every blasting environment holds inherent risk, highwall blasting in highly congested ar

    Jan 1, 2008

  • ISEE
    Fragmentation by Blasting through Precise Initiation: Full Scale Trials at the Aitik Copper Mine

    By E Novikov, D Johansson, U Nyberg, A Beyglou, N Petropoulos

    Fragmentation is an important factor for improving downstream processes in mine operations. Six trials have been conducted at the Aitik copper mine to investigate the effect of ultra-short inter-hole

    Jan 1, 2014

  • ISEE
    The Impacts of Digital Revolution in the Mining Sector. Case of Study: Blasting Operations of a Copper Mine in the Northern of Brazil

    By Vitor Fonseca de Barcelos, Jair Carlos Koppe

    Our society is experiencing a digital revolution. Technology is demonstrating its significant potential for mining industry. In this paper are presented the measured and estimated impacts of applying

    Feb 1, 2020

  • ISEE
    The Median Versus the Mean Fragment Size and Other Issues with the Kuz-Ram Model (8c6eb78e-36ab-4850-9d6b-ecb1792625f3)

    By F Ouchterlony

    Soviet precursors to Cunningham’s Kuz-Ram model from 1983 are described. They are rooted in the mean fragment size and Rosin-Rammler (RR) fits to sieving data and rely on approximations. Three version

    Jan 1, 2016