Natural Resources Research - Ground vibration generated from blasting is a detrimental side effect of the use of explosives to break the rock mass in mines. Therefore, accurately predicting ground... 相似文献
Flyrock is an adverse effect produced by blasting in open-pit mines and tunneling projects. So, it seems that the precise estimations and risk level assessment of flyrock are essential in minimizing environmental effects induced by blasting. The first aim of this research is to model the risk level associated with flyrock through rock engineering systems (RES) methodology. In this regard, 62 blasting were investigated in Ulu Tiram quarry, Malaysia, and the most effective parameters of flyrock were measured. Using the most influential parameters on flyrock, the overall risk of flyrock was obtained as 32.95 which is considered as low to medium degree of vulnerability. Moreover, the second aim of this research is to estimate flyrock based on RES and multiple linear regression (MLR). To evaluate performance prediction of the models, some statistical criteria such as coefficient of determination (R2) were computed. Comparing the values predicted by the models demonstrated that the RES has more suitable performance than MLR for predicting the flyrock and it could be introduced as a powerful technique in this field. 相似文献
Strict control of the environmental impacts of blasting operations needs to be completely in line with the regulatory limits. In such operations, flyrock control is of high importance especially due to safety issues and the damages it may cause to infrastructures, properties as well as the people who live within and around the blasting site. Such control causes flyrock to be limited, hence significantly reducing the risk of damage. This paper serves two main objectives: risk assessment and prediction of flyrock. For these objectives, a fuzzy rock engineering system (FRES) framework was developed in this study. The proposed FRES was able to efficiently evaluate the parameters that affect flyrock, which facilitate decisions to be made under uncertainties. In this study, the risk level of flyrock was determined using 11 independent parameters, and the proposed FRES was capable of calculating the interactions among these parameters. According to the results, the overall risk of flyrock in the studied case (Ulu Tiram quarry, located in Malaysia) was medium to high. Hence, the use of controlled blasting method can be recommended in the site. In the next step, three optimization algorithms, namely genetic algorithm (GA), imperialist competitive algorithm (ICA) and particle swarm optimization (PSO), were used to predict flyrock, and it was found that the GA-based model was more accurate than the ICA- and PSO-based models. Accordingly, it is concluded that FRES is a very useful for both risk assessment and prediction of flyrock.
One of the most important aims of blasting in open pit mines is to reach desirable size of fragmentation. Prediction of fragmentation has great importance in an attempt to prevent economic drawbacks. In this study, blasting data from Meydook mine were used to study the effect of different parameters on fragmentation; 30 blast cycles performed in Meydook mine were selected to predict fragmentation where six more blast cycles are used to validate the results of developed models. In this research, mutual information (MI) method was employed to predict fragmentation. Ten parameters were considered as primary ones in the model. For the sake of comparison, Kuz-Ram empirical model and statistical modeling were also used. Coefficient of determination (R2), root mean square error (RMSE), and mean absolute error (MAE) were then used to compare the models. Results show that MI model with values of R2, RMSE, and MAE equals 0.81, 10.71, and 9.02, respectively, is found to have more accuracy with better performance comparing to Kuz-Ram and statistical models. 相似文献
Introduction In spite of development of mechanized methods of ground excavation, drilling and blasting is still extensively employed because of its low capital investment and simplicity. Its extensive use is not even limited by extension of mines close to residential areas and vital establishments. If it is not used in a controlled way, blasting operation can cause instability, failure of mine slopes and damps and damage to the nearby structures. The main objective here could be to reduce the … 相似文献
Blast-induced flyrock is a hazardous and undesirable phenomenon that may occur in surface mines, especially when blasting takes place near residential areas. Therefore, accurate prediction of flyrock distance is of high significance in the determination of the statutory danger area. To this end, there is a practical need to propose an accurate model to predict flyrock. Aiming at this topic, this study presents two machine learning models, including extreme learning machine (ELM) and outlier robust ELM (ORELM), for predicting flyrock. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work that investigates the use of ORELM model in the field of flyrock prediction. To construct and verify the proposed ELM and ORELM models, a database including 82 datasets has been collected from the three granite quarry sites in Malaysia. Additionally, artificial neural network (ANN) and multiple regression models were used for comparison. According to the results, both ELM and ORELM models performed satisfactorily, and their performances were far better compared to the performances of ANN and multiple regression models.
Ground vibration resulting from blasting is one of the most important environmental problems at open-cast mines. Therefore, accurately approximating the blast-induced ground vibration is very significant. By reviewing the previous investigations, many attempts have been done to create the empirical models for estimating ground vibration. Nevertheless, the performance of the empirical models is not good enough. In this research work, a new hybrid model of fuzzy system (FS) designed by imperialistic competitive algorithm (ICA) is proposed for approximating ground vibration resulting from blasting at Miduk copper mine, Iran. For comparison aims, various empirical models were also utilized. Results from different predictor models were compared by using coefficient of multiple determination (R2), variance account for and root-mean-square error between measured and predicted values of the PPVs. Results prove that the FS–ICA model outperforms the other empirical models in terms of the prediction accuracy. In other words, the FS–ICA model with R2 of 0.942 can forecast PPV better than the USBM with R2 of 0.634, Ambraseys–Hendron with R2 of 0.638, Langefors–Kihlstrom with R2 of 0.637 and Indian Standard with R2 of 0.519. 相似文献