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  • ISEE
    Confiner Strength and Thickness Effects on Detonation Characteristics of Emulsion Explosives

    By D. Lynn Gordon, Larry B. Weston, Michael W. Manhart, Patrick R. Bowden, Michael W. Redmond

    Study of confinement effects on detonation characteristics and subsequent fitting form development as a function of confiner strength and thickness.

    Feb 1, 2020

  • ISEE
    Aquarium Tests to Study the Detonation Behaviour of a Non-ideal Explosive.

    By M. Araos

    Non-ideal explosives can be characterised by different methods like velocity of detonation measurement, double pipe tests, underwater tests, aquarium tests, etc., to name a few. Both aquarium and velo

    Jan 1, 2024

  • ISEE
    Harmonic Delamination of Nuclear Structures

    By Frederick B. Kuhnow

    Harmonic energetic delamination a building is being considered for demolition at a formerly known atomic power lab. The building is within a containment structure under a negative pressure, so that no

    Feb 1, 2020

  • ISEE
    Journal: From the Executive Director / The Explosives Industry and the New Economy / ISEE’s 35th Anniversary marks economic challenges

    By Jeff Dean

    As the Society celebrates its 35th year as an explosives industry association, it is clear that we are part of an industry that covers many sectors of economic activity. We are the voice of those who

    Jan 1, 2010

  • ISEE
    Cold Detonation Physics: A New Field of Non-Toxic Nitrogen-Free Explosives

    By D. Swanson

    Cold Detonation Physics (CDP) is a patented new field of explosives and the name for the explosive that is produced when non-toxic dry ice (frozen carbon dioxide) is combined with powdered metals such

    Jan 1, 2024

  • ISEE
    Drill Monitoring & Navigation Systmes at BHP Billiton's Navajo Mine

    By John Vynne

    BHP’s Navajo coal mine installed drill monitoring and high precision navigation systems on their three overburden drills during 2002 and 2003. Details of the DrillNav system hardware and reporting sys

    Jan 1, 2007

  • ISEE
    EU Type Certification of Non-Standard Electronic Initiations Systems used in Blasting at Mines and Quarries

    By Matthew Clay, Colin Chambers, Susan Hookham

    Opencast (quarries) and underground mines around the world use blasting methods to mine valuable ore. Traditional blasting systems use technologies such as electric delay detonator systems (developed

    Jan 1, 2017

  • ISEE
    Journal: Recent Projects / Dekalb County, Georgia CBI Assists County with Mock Disaster Training

    Controlled Blasting, Inc. (CBI) located in Norcross, Georgia recently teamed with the Dekalb county fire marshals office to stage a mock disaster to test new trainees of Community Emergency Response T

    Jan 1, 2010

  • ISEE
    Reducing Blast Vibration Amplitudes Close-In to Structures of Sub-Standard Construction

    By Enrique Munaretti, Cathy Aimone-Martin, Vitor Rosenhaim, Jair Koppe

    Production blasts at one of Copelmi’s coal mine operations will be carried out 100 m (330 ft) from a neighborhood located in the town of Butiá, southern Brazil. Mine management is concerned about the

    Jan 1, 2013

  • ISEE
    Automatic 3D Fragmentation Analysis from Drone Imagery

    By Andreas Gaich

    A new 3D fragmentation analysis method for muck piles is presented. It works with aerial imagery from UAVs (drones) and handles entire muck piles with minimum user intervention.

    Feb 1, 2020

  • ISEE
    Use of Basic Statistics for the Overlapping Timing Analysis of a Single Blast Hole

    By Lifent Li, Jhon Silva-Castro

    Since millisecond-delay detonators were first introduced, at least two variables, among others, have been more closely considered when timing a mining blast: the accuracy and the precision of the init

    Jan 1, 2015

  • ISEE
    Blasting, Material Flow & Ore Dilution in Sublevel Cave Mining; State-of-the-Art Review

    By Ayman Tawadrous

    Cave mining offers a flexible technique to exploit large, low grade, deep ore bodies with low operating costs. It is typically done in either a top down approach; i.e. sublevel caving, or in a bottom

    Jan 1, 2015

  • ISEE
    Underwater Blast Pressures From A Confinded Rock Removal During The Miami Harbor Deepening Project

    By Terri Jordan, Gregory Hempen, Thomas Keevin

    Water-borne blast pressures from confined blasts were recorded as part of a submerged blasting program in Florida for channel deepening. The blasting was confined within the rock floor by stemming. Sh

    Jan 1, 2007

  • ISEE
    Mitigation of Accelerations on Vehicles Subjected to Buried Mine Loading

    By Jarrod Bonsmann, Zachary T. Plitt

    "A surge in mine related deaths in Middle Eastern conflicts over the past few years has prompted research into the mitigation of the impact on a blast loaded vehicle. In past military conflicts, it ha

    Jan 1, 2016

  • ISEE
    Geospatial Modelling Methods to Incorporate Subdrill in Powder Factor Calculation and Mine to Mill Analytics

    By Stephen Mansfield

    In open-pit mining operations, the drill and blast processes have a significant impact on the downstream operational performance of crushing and grinding of ores and recovery of metal. The blast patte

    Feb 6, 2023

  • ISEE
    Journal: 100 Years / Arms & Explosives London October, 1909

    By Robert Hopler

    Testing Stations Abroad At the Seventh International Congress of Applied Chemistry, Drs. Mente and Will communicated a paper on the above subject. All large coal-getting countries employ testing stati

    Jan 1, 2010

  • ISEE
    TNT Equivalence and Fragmentation Mechanisms of High Pressure Gas Fracturing Technique

    By Baohua Guo, Xuelin Yang, Tingkan Lu, Hailin Sun

    The work presented in this paper mainly involves two parts. Firstly, the fundamental characteristics of the high pressure carbon dioxide gas fracturing technique (CO2 technique), including, a proposed

    Jan 1, 2017

  • ISEE
    An Experimental Method of Determining Explosive Equivalency When Scaled Distance Approaches Zero

    By R. Hazael, R. Alford, R. Critchley

    The ability to compare explosives is fundamental. Numerous methods are used and while simple conversion factors are often used, the use of TNT Equivalency (TNTe) is not a simple subject as explosives

    Jan 1, 2024

  • ISEE
    Response of Un-Cracked Drywall Joints and Sheets to Blast Vibration and Weather

    By Jeffrey Meissner, Charles Dowding

    Cracking is one of the concerns cited by owners of structures adjacent to construction or mine blasting. During the past decade a large number of measurements have documented the low level of crack re

    Jan 1, 2011

  • ISEE
    Experimental Studies to Investigate Small Scale Explosive Loading Using Visualization Techniques

    By L C. Taylor

    Both the U. S. Navy and the U. S. Army are interested in knowing more about the loading applied to vehicles which are unfortunate enough to encounter a detonation of a buried mine in the course of per

    Jan 1, 2016