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Ground and Air Vibration Caused by Surface Blasting. Volume V. Air Vibrations: Monitoring and Predictor Assessment.

Morlock CR; Daemen JJK

NTIS: PB/84-191972 :175 pages

10003879

Airblasts were monitored at four coal strip mines and at a limestone quarry. Instrumentation selection and use are described. Data analysis includes an assessment of the predictability of peak overpressures by means of the cube root scaled distance law. Predictability for the cases studied is not good. A computer program was written to simulate airblasts induced by multiple-hole blasts. A series of small experimental blasts were detonated and monitored to allow an assessment of the program. It is clear that airblasts, especially when induced by very small charges and monitored at very close distances, are highly sensitive to detonation times. Retrofitting of airblast records occasionally was possible, but considerably improved fieldwork is required to validate or refute the computer model.

19830101

CP; Final Contract Report;

1983

PB84-191972

A09

OFR 105(5)-84

WO;

NTIS: PB/84-191972

AZ;

Univ. of Arizona