Tele-infrasonic studies of hard-rock mining explosions

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 97-106

  McKenna, Mihan H ^a   Stump, Brian W ^b   Hayek, Sylvia ^c   McKenna, Jason R ^a   Stanton, Terry R ^a  

^a U S ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATURAL RESOURCES CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; DATA REDUCTION; DATA STRUCTURES; EXPLOSIONS; MASS SPECTROMETERS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

INFRASOUND MODELING; INFRASOUND STATIONS;

IRON MINES;

IRON;

ARTICLE; EXPLOSION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MINING; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCK; SOUND; ACOUSTICS; ATMOSPHERE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GEOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ACOUSTICS; ATMOSPHERE; EXPLOSIONS; GEOLOGY; IRON; MINING; MINNESOTA; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NOISE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34547483119     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2741375     Document Type: Article

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