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  • ISEE
    Garbage Plug Demolition Using a Low Detonation Velocity Explosive in “Presa Mixcoac” Dam, in Mexico City

    By Enrique Albarrán, Julian Hernández

    "In 1942 The “Presa Mixcoac” dam was built, along with 15 other dams, to control the rain fall waterin the mountains west of Mexico City. Mexico City’s population at that time was around 1.5 millionpe

    Jan 1, 2016

  • ISEE
    Next Generation Laser Surveying Systems! Blast Design and Analysis Software

    By Steve Colbum

    LTl’s MapStar LPS (laser positioning system) utilize both tripod mounted and hand held reflectorless distance meters. These are eye safe, easy-to-use, and specifically designed to endure the harsh env

    Jan 1, 2000

  • ISEE
    Development of Light ANFO

    By Yasunori Kosaka, Junya Tokita, Aramaki Shosaku, Inoue Junji

    Light ANFO that satisfies blasters and customers who want to reduce the amount of explosive consumption without changing blasting effects and designs and passes Cap sensitivity test regulated by law.

    Jan 1, 2002

  • ISEE
    Challenges and Lessons Learned from the Kentucky Lock Project

    By K. Best, D. Conn

    The US Army Corps of Engineers KY Lock Project in western Kentucky presented the blasters and vibration consultants with a set of unique challenges. The blasters on this project were faced with diffic

    Jan 1, 2024

  • ISEE
    Low Powder Factor Blasting to Take Advantage of Natural Rock Fissures is Uneconomical

    By R. F. Favreau, Patrice Favreau

    In many quarries and construction sites visited by the authors over the last 50 years, the latter have observed muck piles from blasting with explosives, which included numerous large blocks, in some

    Jan 1, 2018

  • ISEE
    High Resolution Seismic Refraction Tomography for Determining Depth of Blast Induced Damage in a Mine Wall

    By Stephan Iversan, Janae Singer

    High resolution seismic refraction tomography has proved to be a useful tool to effectively estimate depth of blast induced damage in rock. Excavation blast damage can be as shallow as 1 to 2m (3 to 7

    Jan 1, 2009

  • ISEE
    Uses for Blasting Instrumentation - Practical Applications

    By Cam Thomas, Steve Bernard

    Various types of blasting instrumentation can be used in the field to analyze conditions before, during and after a blast, and to indicate what changes need to be made. When different types of measure

    Jan 1, 2012

  • ISEE
    Quantifying Your Blast Fragmentation Using Split-Desktop

    By Kirstin Girdner, Tom BoBo, Brian Norton, John Kemeny

    Split Engineering is a truly customer oriented company dedicated to providing quantified fragmentation information of the highest integrity to enable process management and control. Technical decision

    Jan 1, 2000

  • ISEE
    Novel Impulse Instrumentation for Buried Explosive Charges

    By Phillip R. Mulligan, Kevin Gantz, Aaron J. Ward, allen shirley, Sean Treadway

    Understanding the impulse transferred into a structure by the coupled two-phase loading produced by an explosive charge buried in soil is of interest for various applications. The most common impulse

    Jan 1, 2016

  • ISEE
    "Journal: Evaluating and Managing Blasting Risk Part II"

    By Gordon Revey

    The challenge of managing blasting risk, types of risk, public perception, and a system for managing risk were covered in the first part of this article in the May/June 2000 issue of the Journal of Ex

    Jan 1, 2001

  • ISEE
    Stratablasttm - A New Mining Method

    By T Goswami

    The conventional practice in open cut coal strip mining has been to blast the overburden or coal layers in separate blast events. This is done in order to maximise the benefits from throw blasting and

    Jan 1, 2006

  • ISEE
    Near-Field Blast Vibration Monitoring: Practical Considerations and Issues

    By John Heilig, Patrick Andrieux

    "Near-field monitoring of blast induced seismic vibrations is a practical and useful way of assessing blast field behaviour for diagnosis and optimization purposes. It is also necessary in order to pr

    Jan 1, 1995

  • ISEE
    Analysis and Design of Blastwalls to Protect Public Structures From Malevolent Explosions

    By Dale Preece, Steven Sobolik, Richard Jensen

    Recent events demonstrate that civil and government facilities and structures face an ever-increasing need to be designed for protection against malevolent explosions. Modification of existing public

    Jan 1, 2000

  • ISEE
    Critical Blast Design Parameters for Construction Blasting

    By Tom Short

    "Construction blasting covers a very extensive variety of explosive applications. I will discussseveral of these with you and then show slides from my collection, starting in 1956, which will betteril

    Jan 1, 1991

  • ISEE
    Dilute Explosive Tile (DET) - A New Explosive with Unique Properties and Many Potential Applications in the Mining Industry

    By Mohsen Sanai, Paul Gefken

    "SRI International has developed and patented* a castable dilute explosive tile @ET) that offersunique advantages over conventional high explosive. The primary advantages of DET are that itsdetonation

    Jan 1, 1995

  • ISEE
    World-Wide Survey of Distress Blasting Practice in Deep Hard Rock Mines

    By Marwan M. Mohammed, Hani S. Mitri, Wilfrid Comeaul, Baoyao Tang

    In many parts of the world, rockbursts have become a major problem of mining at depth. As orebodies are being mined deeper, rockburst phenomena have become familiar to deep hard rock mines. Rockbursts

    Jan 1, 1999

  • ISEE
    Portable, Multi-Channel and Continuous Velocity of Detonation Recorders

    By Jackson R. Pressley, Bruce Vandenberg

    An explosive’s velocity of detonation, (VOD), can be used to indicate a number of important characteristics regarding the product’s performance, under specific field and test conditions.

    Jan 1, 1997

  • ISEE
    Facing the Drilling and Blasting Difficulties at Helwan Quarry, Egypt

    By M. Khaled, K. Abdel Rahman, M. Khattab

    Helwan limestone quarry is located at a distance of 35 km (21.7 miles) to the south of Cairo downtown. Drilling and blasting operations are used to extract the limestone for the Helwan Cement Company

    Jan 1, 2008

  • ISEE
    100 ft Deep Kelly Bar Blasting in Florida

    By Dan McCutchen, Oettmeier

    Kelly bar drilling and blasting is unique to Florida, the' Bahamas and other marine limestone areas in the world where blast holes are required but will not remain open for the loading of explosives.

    Jan 1, 1991

  • ISEE
    The Influence of Primer Size on Explosive Performance (da0d94ac-a5fd-45ab-9b70-002ce6b6fb47)

    By Ian A. Niell, Alastair C. Torrance

    A joint research programme conducted by BHP Central Research Laboratories and Du Pont Wesfarmers Pty Ltd examined the effect of the size of cast primers on the run up and steady state detonation veloc

    Jan 1, 1990