Large scale concrete cube blasts for the HSBM model

Rock Fragmentation by Blasting - Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Rock Fragmentation by Blasting, FRAGBLAST 9

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 389-398

  Sellers, E J ^a   Kotze, M ^a   Dipenaar, L ^b   Ruest, M ^b  

^a African Explosives Limited   (South Africa)

^b Anglo American ^*  (South Africa)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION TESTS; DESIGN PHILOSOPHY; MEASURED RESULTS; MODEL COMPARISON; MODEL RESULTS; NON-IDEAL DETONATION; PEAK PARTICLE VELOCITIES; SIDE LENGTH; TEST DATA; VELOCITY OF DETONATION; WAVE FORMS; WAVE SPEED; WAVEFORM SHAPE;

BLASTING; GEOMETRY; ROCK BURSTS; VIDEO ON DEMAND;

EXPLOSIVES;

EID: 84859847999     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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