Seeking the law of through-crack in double hole shaped charge can help reveal rock failure mechanism directional controlled blasting. Using LS-DYNA numerical simulation analysis, dynamic mechanical behaviors double-hole crack development and penetration elliptical bipolar linear-shaped blasting ordinary were compared studied. The results showed that it was difficult to form a straight line thro...

PROBLEM Blasting is a hazardous component of surface mining. Serious injuries and fatalities result from improper judgment or practice during rock blasting. This paper describes several fatal injury case studies, analyzes causative factors, and emphasizes preventive measures. METHOD This study examines publications by MSHA, USGS, and other authors. The primary source of information was MSHA's...

in this study, analysis of actual data collected from sugar beet hybrid monogerm seed producers in the 2001 growing season and laboratory seed samples showed that delay in steckling sowing resulted in the reduction of raw and pure sugar beet seed yield and the increase of undersize seed portion. non-significant effect of sowing dates on unkernel seed percent showed that the high temperatures wi...

UNLABELLED BLAST++ is a tool that is integrated with NCBI BLAST, allowing multiple, say K, queries to be searched against a database concurrently. The results obtained by BLAST++ are identical to that obtained by executing BLAST on each of the K queries, but BLAST++ completes the processing in a much shorter time. AVAILABILITY http://xena1.ddns.comp.nus.edu.sg/~genesis/blast++ SUPPLEMENTARY...

The purpose of this study is to measure the size distribution of blasted rock using the digital image processing software “SplitDesktop system” in order to evaluate the efficiency of blasting operation. Site of study is a limestone quarry producing limestone for cement manufacturing. Fragmentation is the ultimate measure of efficiency of any production blasting operations. The degree of fragmen...

Many applications of computer-aided verification require bit-precise reasoning as provided by Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) solvers for the theory of quantifier-free fixed-size bit-vectors. The current state-of-the-art in solving bit-vector formulas in SMT relies on bit-blasting, where a given formula is eagerly translated into propositional logic (SAT) and handed to an underlying SAT so...

Blasting operations involve some undesirable environmental issues that may cause damage to equipment and surrounding areas. One of them, probably the most important one, is flyrock induced by blasting, where its accurate estimation before operation essential identify blasting zone’s safety zone. This study introduces several tree-based solutions for an prediction flyrock. has been done using fo...