MAD 241E - Blasting Tech & its Applications

Course Objectives

1 - Learning the blasting for mining and construction works
2 - Avoiding of environmental-side effects of blasting
3 - Learnig the blast design

Course Description

Rock drilling methods, properties of explosives, industrial explosives, initiation systems, mechanism of rock breakage, characterization of the rock masses for blast designing, controllable parameters of blasting, bench blasting, blasting for tunnels, drifts and shaft sinking, underground production blasting in mining engineering, evaluation of blast results, blast induced environmental effects.