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  • ISEE
    Understanding Toxic Fumes from Mining Explosives

    By Michael S. Wieland

    "Toxic fumes cause fatal andnonfatal incidents in underground mining, where the working environment tends to trap the fumes, hindering the restoration of non-harmful conditions. Workers can underestim

    Jan 1, 1997

  • ISEE
    Blast Vibration Analysis, the Fourier Transform and Delay Effects on Frequency

    By Randall M. Wheeler

    "Fourier analysis is a very powerful frequency analysis tool. However, it is frequently misunderstood and sometimes used inappropriately. Part of this workshop will involve the basics of Fourier serie

    Jan 1, 1998

  • ISEE
    A Classic Experiment with Air Overpressure and Windows

    By Charlie Adcock, Rob Farnfield, Andy Wetherelt

    The ISEE Blasters Handbook gives guidance on the level of air overpressure likely to cause occasional window breakage (151dB) and general window breakage (171dB). A long-term safe level of 140dB is al

    Jan 1, 2006

  • ISEE
    Ground Motions from and House Response to Underground Aggregate Mining

    By Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Northwestern University, Mike Wladron, Gordon Revey

    A unique judicial opportunity allowed measurement of the response of three cracks in residential structure to blasting for underground aggregate mining. Instrumented cracks were located in the interio

    Jan 1, 2007

  • ISEE
    New Drill Bit Technology - The Rock Reamer Drill Bit

    By Roger "Dean" Skaggs

    Mechanical rock drilling is about 150 years old, and the fundamental principles of augering, penetration and dragging, pressure and rotation, and percussion have not appreciably changed. Surface minin

    Jan 1, 1997

  • 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
    Underwater Explosions Part 4. Signal Damping

    By M. Hagfors

    On the underwater testing of explosives, the measuring system consists of water filled test pond, tourmaline based pressure sensor, measuring cable and measuring unit, which supplies the DC current to

    Jan 1, 2006

  • ISEE
    Low Frequency Vibrations Produced by Coal Mine Blasting and their Impact on Structures

    By B Mohanty, M P. Roy, P K. Singh

    "The measured response of residential structures is a critical indicator of troublesomeor potentially damaging ground vibrations. A study was conducted to evaluate theresponse of structures situated i

    Jan 1, 2008

  • ISEE
    Studies on Safe Blasting Technique in Fire Area of Coal Mines

    By A Bagchi, Nabiullah, Jagdieh

    "A number of coal mines in India are affected by fire. Most of coking coal reserves in the country are located in Jharia coalfield where more than 18 sq. km is in the grip of fire. Generally such fire

    Jan 1, 1993

  • ISEE
    Journal: 100 Years / A TREATISE ON COAL MINES J.H.H. Holmes London, 1816 / New Uses for Explosives E.I. Du Pont De Nemours Powder Company Pamphlet No. 1 January 1909

    By H. Mullani

    We have in southeast Kansas a variety of soils underneath which are a variety of subsoils compressed into what is commonly called “ hard pan.” These soils are of six types, ranging from a clay to a sa

    Jan 1, 2010

  • ISEE
    Usability of Expert System Integrated With GIS in Blasting Operations

    By U. Gorkhan Akkaya, N. Enver

    Geographic information system (GIS) is one of the most accurate and useful tools to help decision – making for decision-makers. As to expert systems, it provides solutions to the problems faced by mim

    Jan 1, 2013

  • ISEE
    Expanded Rock Blast Modeling Capabilities of DMC_Blast, Including Buffer Blasting

    By Dale S. Preece, J Paul Tidman, Stephen H. Chung

    "A discrete element computer program named DMC-BLAST (Distinct Motion code) has been under. development since 1987 for modeling rock blasting (Preece & Taylor, 1989). This program employsexplicit time

    Jan 1, 1997

  • ISEE
    Journal: 100 Years / Engineering News New York January 5, 1905 Methods and Cost of Blasting and Handling Boulders

    By Daniel Hauer

    In considering the cost of rock excavation, but little attention has been given to the economical handling and breaking up of boulders. Very few records seem to have been kept as to the cost of such w

    Jan 1, 2006

  • ISEE
    Sappington Bridge: An Opportunity for Strengthening Research and Demolition Training

    By J. Baird

    The Sappington Bridge, a steel arch span bridge constructed in 1904 over the Meramec River, was demolished due to its advanced state of deterioration. The demolition was a project to benefit Crawford

    Jan 1, 2003

  • ISEE
    Modeling of Dynamic Break in Underground Ring Blasting

    By Troy Williams, Chris Preston, Ian Lipchak

    "Underground blasting operations are challenging from the standpoint of the distribution of explosivesenergy representative of ring blasting. Energy from both shock and pressure regimes of commerciale

    Jan 1, 2016

  • ISEE
    Risk Criteria for Quantitative Risk Assessment

    By John Meuth, Brandon Fryman, P. E. Hoffman, Joshua Ph. D., P. E. Calnan, Josh Ph. D.

    Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA) can be specifically tailored for use by the commercial explosives industry to calculate risk to employees and the public from commercial explosives facilities and op

    Jan 1, 2019

  • 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
    Cast Blasting in the Light of the Electronic Option

    By Winfried Rosenstock

    The development of electronic initiation systems has partially reached or will reach in a short period of time full reliability for general use without limitations. Unfortunately those systems meet wi

    Jan 1, 2003

  • ISEE
    Bench Face and Quarry Fragmentation Analysis: 3D Imaging vs. Scaling References

    By Daniel Ko, Ian Bell, Shahram Tafazoli, Bahram Sameti, Aylin Azmin

    Image-based remote sensing of rock fragmentation in mining and quarry applications essentially treats each rock in the image as a data object in order to determine the rock size distribution. An obvio

    Jan 1, 2015

  • ISEE
    Investigations of Shock Tunnel Dynamics and Energy Realization (a197a97d-a574-4dd6-b892-bc2dba4e791b)

    By Joshua Hoffman, Braden Lusk, Kyle Perry

    This study explores how different geometries affect the shock tunnel’s performance and is broken down into three phases. Phase 1: Open arena testing in which theoretical energies produced by the deton

    Jan 1, 2009