Features:

• Covers the economics of the entire rock blasting operation and its dependence on the size of the excavation, information useful in estimating and planning new jobs
• Highlights the fundamentals of rock mechanics, shock waves and detonation, initiation, and mechanics of rock motion
• Describes the engineering design principles and computational techniques for many separate mining methods and rock blasting operations
• Discusses the environmental effects of explosives and blasting, and gives advice and shares direct experience in handling the amicable interaction with neighbors who may be affected by a blasting operation
• Explains the safety and regulation side of the manufacture, storage, and use of explosives

Rock Blasting and Explosives Engineering covers the practical engineering aspects of many different kinds of rock blasting. It includes a thorough analysis of the cost of the entire process of tunneling by drilling and blasting in comparison with full-face boring.

Also covered are the fundamental sciences of rock mass and material strength, the thermal decomposition, burning, shock initiation, and detonation behavior of commercial and military explosives, and systems for charging explosives into drillholes. Functional descriptions of all current detonators and initiation systems are provided. The book includes chapters on flyrock, toxic fumes, the safety of explosives, and even explosives applied in metal working as a fine art. Fundamental in its approach, the text is based on the practical industrial experience of its authors. It is supported by an abundance of tables, diagrams, and figures.

This combined textbook and handbook provides students, practitioners, and researchers in mining, mechanical, building construction, geological, and petroleum engineering with a source from which to gain a thorough understanding of the constructive use of explosives.

Contents

1. Rock Strength and Fracture Properties
2. Mechanical Drilling and Boring in Rock
3. Explosives
4. Shock Waves and Detonations, Explosive Performance
5. Initiation Systems
6. Principles of Charge Calculation for Surface Blasting
7. Charge Calculations for Tunneling
8. Stress Waves in Rock, Rock Mass Damage, and Fragmentation
9. Contour Blasting
10. Computer Calculations for Rock Blasting
11. Blast Performance Control. Flyrock
12. Ground Vibrations
13. Air Blast Effects
14. Toxic Fumes
15. Metal Acceleration, Fragment Throw, Metal Jets and Penetration
16. Explosive Art, Explosive Metal Forming, Welding, Powder Compaction, and Reaction Sintering
17. Safety Precautions, Rules, and Regulations
18. Safety in Production of Explosives
19. United Nations Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods

Appendices:
Exercises
Solutions to Selected Exercises
References
Units
Conversion Factors
List of Symbols

Glossary
Explosives Index
Name Index
Subject Index

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