Prediction of blast fragmentation using multivariate analysis procedures

International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1318-1333

  Hudaverdi, T ^a,b   Kulatilake, P H S W ^b   Kuzu, C ^a  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Blasting; Cluster analysis; Discriminant analysis; Fragmentation; Rock mass

Indexed keywords

BLAST DESIGN; BLAST FRAGMENTATION; BLOCK SIZES; DEVELOPED MODEL; DISTRIBUTION MODELS; FRAGMENTATION; GROUP MEMBERSHIPS; HIERARCHICAL CLUSTER ANALYSIS; IN-SITU; MEAN PARTICLE SIZE; MULTI VARIATE ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PREDICTION CAPABILITY; PREDICTION EQUATIONS; ROCK FORMATIONS; ROCK MASS;

BLASTING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FORECASTING; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROCKS;

MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS;

BLASTING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROCK MASS CLASSIFICATION; STIFFNESS;

EID: 79961039586     PISSN: 03639061     EISSN: 10969853     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nag.957     Document Type: Article

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