Evaluation and prediction of flyrock resulting from blasting operations using empirical and computational methods

Engineering with Computers

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 109-121

  Jahed Armaghani, D ^a   Tonnizam Mohamad, E ^a   Hajihassani, M ^a   Alavi Nezhad Khalil Abad, S V ^a   Marto, A ^a   Moghaddam, M R ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c Saman Zamin Hamgam Engineering Company   (Iran)

Author keywords

Adaptive neuro fuzzy inference system; Artificial neural network; Blasting; Empirical graph; Flyrock

Indexed keywords

BLASTING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FORECASTING; FUZZY SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; NEURAL NETWORKS; QUARRIES; TRACKING (POSITION);

ADAPTIVE NEURO-FUZZY INFERENCE SYSTEM; BLASTING OPERATIONS; COEFFICIENT OF DETERMINATION; EMPIRICAL GRAPH; EVALUATION AND PREDICTIONS; FLYROCK; PREDICTIVE MODELING; ROOT MEAN SQUARED ERRORS;

FUZZY INFERENCE;

EID: 84952981644     PISSN: 01770667     EISSN: 14355663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00366-015-0402-5     Document Type: Article

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