Computer assisted blast design and assessment tools
- Golder Associates Ltd., Sudbury, Ontario (Canada)
- Golder Associates Inc., Seattle, WA (United States)
- Golder Associates Ltd., Vancouver, British Columbia (Canada)
In general the software required by a blast designer includes tools that graphically present blast designs (surface and underground), can analyze a design or predict its result, and can assess blasting results. As computers develop and computer literacy continues to rise the development of and use of such tools will spread. An example of the tools that are becoming available includes: Automatic blast pattern generation and underground ring design; blast design evaluation in terms of explosive distribution and detonation simulation; fragmentation prediction; blast vibration prediction and minimization; blast monitoring for assessment of dynamic performance; vibration measurement, display and signal processing; evaluation of blast results in terms of fragmentation; and risk and reliability based blast assessment. The authors have identified a set of criteria that are essential in choosing appropriate software blasting tools.
- OSTI ID:
- 398367
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9502142-; TRN: IM9649%%575
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 11. annual symposium on explosives and blasting research, Nashville, TN (United States), 5-9 Feb 1995; Other Information: PBD: 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of Proceedings of the eleventh annual symposium on explosives and blasting research; PB: 348 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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