Prediction of flyrock in boulder blasting by using artificial neural network

Electronic Journal of Geotechnical Engineering

Volumn 17 R, Issue , 2012, Pages 2585-2595

  Mohamad, Edy Tonnizam ^a   Armaghani, Danial Jahed ^a   Noorani, Seyed Ahmad ^a   Saad, Rosli ^b   Abad, Seyed Vahid Alavi Nezhad Khaili ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Blasting; Boulders; Flyrock assessment; Hazard; Matlab

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE PREDICTION; ACTUAL DISTANCE; BLASTING OPERATIONS; BLASTING PARAMETERS; BOULDERS; CIVIL ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS; COEFFICIENT OF CORRELATION; DISTANCE-BASED; EMPIRICAL METHOD; FLYROCK ASSESSMENT; HOLE DEPTH; HOLE DIAMETER; INPUT PARAMETER; MATRIX LABORATORIES; MAX-MIN METHOD; NEURAL NETWORK TOOLBOXES; ROCK MASS; SIDE EFFECT;

BLASTING; CIVIL ENGINEERING; HAZARDS; MATLAB; NEURAL NETWORKS;

EXPLOSIVES;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BLASTING; BOULDER; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GRANITE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; MINING; PREDICTION; ROCK MASS RESPONSE;

EID: 84865980218     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10893032     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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