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  • ISEE
    A Holistic Approach to the Drill and Blast Process

    By Tom BoBo, Seth Gering, Jeff Loeb

    Presenting a D&B feedback loop built on a well-designed blast, proven fragmentation analysis and blast monitoring solutions, underpinned by technology that not only increases profit from every blast,

    Feb 1, 2020

  • ISEE
    Long Term Vibration and Damage Effects

    Vibration resulting from blasting has been a source of concern from the inception of the use of explosives. As a result many investigations have been made concerning the seismic effects of blasting an

    Jan 1, 1976

  • ISEE
    Blast Fragmentation - Measurement, Modeling, and Prediction

    By Thomas L. Barkley, Steve Salli

    In the past, blasters have attempted to evaluate the results of their blast designs and make corrective adjustments to improve the blasts' productivity and value to the mining operation. The methods e

    Jan 1, 1997

  • ISEE
    Utilization of Pre-split to Dewater a Cut

    By Monica Stuckert

    Field studies were made at an Appalachia coal stripping operation to evaluate the differences in cost and performance between blast casting with pre-split dewatering versus conventional coal overburde

    Jan 1, 1985

  • ISEE
    Influence of Detonator Strength in the Behavior of Cap Sensitive Explosives Under Dynamic Pressure Conditions

    By Jaime Huidobro, Michele Hall

    The desensitization of an explosives column by the transmitted effects of the earlier detonations in nearby explosive charges is of vital concern to the explosives and blasting industries. Stress wave

    Jan 1, 1994

  • ISEE
    Blasting Near Buried Pipelines: A Gas Company Prospective

    By Frederick R. Cosgrave

    Blasting near buried Natural Gas pipelines has always been an area of great concern. Given the many variables that the blaster must contend with in determining how to break the rock while trying to ke

    Jan 1, 1995

  • ISEE
    Blasting Procedures, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Birmingham, Alabama

    By Beau Bryson, Tony Cooley

    The following paper is a technical discussion depicting the type of blasting procedures used to control vibration levels. The blast vibration control criteria that was established and the type of moni

    Jan 1, 1985

  • ISEE
    Blast Monitoring at Atcom for Improved Blasting Efficiency

    By D J. P Jordan, C V. B Cuningham, A J. Rorke, C G. Ladds, O L. Davey

    "During the early stages of the boxcut mining at the Arthur Taylor Colliery, Open Cast Mine(ATCOM), problems were experienced with blasting results. Very large boulders andportions of completely unfra

    Jan 1, 1993

  • ISEE
    Blast Damage Investigations of Foundations Constructed on Collapsible Soils

    By Stanley J. Vitton

    An important factor to consider during blast damage investigations is whether the structure was constructed on collapsible soils. Traditionally, these soils have been considered to be soils such as lo

    Jan 1, 1997

  • ISEE
    Differential Topographic Vibration ISO-Mapping

    By D T. Froedge

    A new system for acquiring blast vibration data and a method for presenting that data in such a way that there can be an extraordinarily enhanced insight into the understanding of vibrations produced

    Jan 1, 1989

  • ISEE
    Shipping Ammonium Nitrate for the Cerrejon Coal Project Colombia, South America

    By A Gene Riggs

    The Cerrejon Coal Project in Colombia, South America is one of the largest coal mines in the world. The mine is located in northeastern Colombia on the La Guajira penninsula. The area is in a remote v

    Jan 1, 1984

  • ISEE
    What a Gas: Blasting Under Pressure (8726b99d-0c1c-4f90-bc37-7481da7b7d20)

    By Jerry R. Wallace

    This project consisted of blasting for expansion of a major interstate natural gas transmission pipeline pump station. The pump station handled 400-500 million cubic feet (11-14 million cubic meters)

    Jan 1, 1996

  • ISEE
    Blast Optimization for Improved Dragline Productivity

    By Hike Humphreys, Geoff Baldwin

    A project aimed at blast optimisation for large open pit coal mines is utilising blast monitoring and analysis techniques, advanced dragline monitoring equipment, and blast simulation software, to ass

    Jan 1, 1994

  • ISEE
    Numerical Simulation of Fragmentation During the Throw Stage of Blasting

    By C H. Ryu

    This paper presents a simplified two-dimensional numerical model of block fragmentation in a Jointed rock mass during the late or throw stage of a blast after wave effects have subsided. The model is

    Jan 1, 1986

  • ISEE
    A New Day for Dynamite

    By Scott E. Winston, Spencer C. Watson

    Dynamite is a generic term for a variety of high explosive formulations containing a blend of liquid and solid nitrate esters co-mixed with solid oxidizers and carbonaceous fuels. Dynamites can be div

    Jan 1, 1985

  • ISEE
    Industrial Application for Explosives

    By Duane A. Houkom

    Down time in the Oil Refining and Petro Chemical Industry is extremely expensive. Each day of non-production may easily cost several million dollars. Explosives have been accepted by this industry to

    Jan 1, 1982

  • ISEE
    Controlled Blasting at the Hanging Lake Tunnels

    By Gordon F. Revey

    Hanging Lake Joint Venture recently excavated two conventional 42 foot diameter highway tunnels in the difficult ground conditions of Glenwood Canyon, Colorado. This paper outlines the type and succes

    Jan 1, 1991

  • ISEE
    The Underwater Test as a Toll for Rating Explosives

    Increasingly specialized blasting needs require that the explosive energy available in a borehole be reliably known for representative blasting conditions. The underwater test, when properly performed

    Jan 1, 2000

  • ISEE
    A Summary of Fatal Accident Due to Flyrock and Lack of Blast Area Security in Surface Mining, 1989 to 1999

    By D. K. Ingram, G. L. Mowrey, T. R. Rehak

    This paper summarizes flyrock and blast area security fatalities from 1989 to 1999 and examines the causative factors. Coal and nonmetal mining used about 43 billion pounds of explosives and blasting

    Jan 1, 2002

  • ISEE
    Fragmentation Measurement for Experimental Blasting in Virginia

    By John A. Franklin, Norbert B. Maerz, D Linn Coursen

    Accurate measurement of blast fragmentation is important in mining and quarrying operations, to monitor blasting and optimize blast design. A new digital photoanalytical method to measure the block si

    Jan 1, 1987