Development of an empirical model for predicting the effects of controllable blasting parameters on flyrock distance in surface mines

International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences

Volumn 52, Issue , 2012, Pages 163-170

  Ghasemi, Ebrahim ^a   Sari, Mehmet ^b   Ataei, Mohammad ^a  

^a SHAHROOD UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b AKSARAY UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Controllable blasting parameters; Dimensional analysis; Flyrock distance; Monte Carlo (MC) method; Sensitivity analysis; Stochastic modeling

Indexed keywords

BLASTING; COPPER MINES; FORECASTING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

% REDUCTIONS; CONTROLLABLE BLASTING PARAMETERS; DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL EQUATIONS; EMPIRICAL MODEL; FLY-ROCKS; FLYROCK DISTANCE; MONTECARLO METHODS; STOCHASTIC-MODELING; SURFACE MINES;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; BLASTING; COPPER; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; MINE; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; ROCK; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 84859649585     PISSN: 13651609     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrmms.2012.03.011     Document Type: Article

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